Another news nugget from your intrepid blogger. This files under the category of whaaaaaatttttt?!?!?!

Italy's highest court ruled on Friday that lobsters must not be kept on ice in restaurant kitchens because it causes them unjustifiable suffering before they head for death by fine dining.

They actually were upholding a sentence by a lower court which ruled that the fact that even though lobsters are usually cooked while still alive does not mean they can be mistreated beforehand.

An animal rights group had filed a complaint against the owner of a restaurant near Florence who kept live crustaceans on ice.

The judges actually wrote, "While the particular method of cooking can be considered legal by recognizing that it is commonly used, the suffering caused by detaining the animals while they wait to be cooked cannot be justified in that way."