HC Deb 02 May 1904 vol 134 cc126-7
MR. CATHCART WASON

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office a Question of which I have given private notice, viz., whether the attention of the authorities of the Home Office has been called to the practice of boiling and broiling lobsters alive in restaurants in this country.

MR. COCHRANE

The Home Secretary has made inquiries, and found that the lobsters are carefully killed before being cooked. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has also investigated the subject, and has satisfied itself that the matter is not one for their intervention.