The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Gizmodo report, “Switzerland outlaws boiling lobsters alive.” New Swiss regulations will require food preparers to stun or mechanically destroy a lobster’s brain before immersing it in boiling water, according to the article. The Lobster Institute at UMaine suggests that a lobster’s nervous system read more Media cite Lobster Institute, Bayer in articles on Switzerland’s ban on boiling crustaceans alive