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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns, as campaigners say they feel pain

Delicious fresh salad with prawns, grapefruit, avocado, cucumber and herbs fish
Campaigners are targeting ‘atrocious’ practices of ‘eyestalk ablation’ and suffocation in ice slurry. Photograph: Ekaterina Smirnova/Getty Images

They are a popular staple for office lunches, barbecues and takeaways, but prawns often suffer an unpleasant death before reaching our plates.

Animal rights campaigners say billions of prawns farmed each year deserve better welfare protection and are targeting what they describe as “atrocious” practices of “eyestalk ablation” and suffocation in ice slurry.

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