Do you ever get that feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach when you approach the live lobster tank at your local grocery store? No matter how many times you have walked past that tank and how "normalized" it is supposed to be, you know it feels just plain wrong. To see those vulnerable animals made defenseless by crude bands wrapped around their claws, piled on top of each other with no means of escape is an incredibly cruel practice that needs to come to an end.
It is the year 2020; we can do so much better.
Concerned citizens like yourself, as well as members of the scientific community, are beginning to speak up for the voiceless like never before. Circus elephants are being freed from their lives of abuse and enslavement, more and more people are standing up against poaching, and the grim nature of the meat and dairy industries are prompting people to rethink their lifestyles.
Well, this is another very crucial issue when it comes to animal cruelty that you have the power to change for the better. The CEO of Whole Foods, a multi-billion dollar health food company, recently put an end to the sale of live lobsters in all his grocery stores nationwide. He made this monumental decision after determining that the requirements to meet ethical standards of lobsters could not be reached. They now will only sell frozen, raw, or cooked lobster via a New England company that adheres to Whole Food's strict guidelines regarding the ethical treatment of sea life.
In their natural environment, lobsters live solitary lives and are quite sensitive to the slightest changes in temperature. Does it seem fair to you that these animals are ripped from their natural habitats (AKA their homes), travel for great lengths of time without food, and then housed in unsanitary tanks with a bunch of other traumatized lobsters? On top of that unbelievable cruelty, they are all headed toward the inevitable fate of being tossed in a boiling pot of water where death can take up to three minutes.
Please stand with me to end this cruel, outdated practice by signing and sharing this petition with as many people as possible.
We are the only ones who can speak up for them and it is about time we do something to stop this. By doing so, we will create a more humane world for lobsters and all living creatures.
We have the power to do this....together.
Thank you.
Updates
January 13, 2021
I am currently compiling a list of local managers who still use tanks to present them with our demands for change. Email your store manager today to ask why they continue this practice while other retailers have already moved on. Post this link on your Facebook page so the pressure on these executives does not let up.
January 13, 2021
The momentum behind this campaign proves that people are no longer willing to ignore the cruelty in these grocery store tanks. Reach out to your local store managers today and demand they adopt the same ethical standards as Whole Foods.
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This makes me very sad when I walk by and see these poor creatures suffer on top of each other. This needs to stop!
Grocery Stores or fancy Restaurants! A terrible, terrible practice that must end!
They have a life for a reason who are we to take it away for the use of food
Cruel and unusual punishment
Save the lobesters
save the lobsters :(
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Do you ever get that feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach when you approach the live lobster tank at your local grocery store? No matter how many times you have walked past that tank and how "normalized" it is supposed to be, you know it feels just plain wrong. To see those vulnerable animals made defenseless by crude bands wrapped around their claws, piled on top of each other with no means of escape is an incredibly cruel practice that needs to come to an end.
It is the year 2020; we can do so much better.
Concerned citizens like yourself, as well as members of the scientific community, are beginning to speak up for the voiceless like never before. Circus elephants are being freed from their lives of abuse and enslavement, more and more people are standing up against poaching, and the grim nature of the meat and dairy industries are prompting people to rethink their lifestyles.
Well, this is another very crucial issue when it comes to animal cruelty that you have the power to change for the better. The CEO of Whole Foods, a multi-billion dollar health food company, recently put an end to the sale of live lobsters in all his grocery stores nationwide. He made this monumental decision after determining that the requirements to meet ethical standards of lobsters could not be reached. They now will only sell frozen, raw, or cooked lobster via a New England company that adheres to Whole Food's strict guidelines regarding the ethical treatment of sea life.
In their natural environment, lobsters live solitary lives and are quite sensitive to the slightest changes in temperature. Does it seem fair to you that these animals are ripped from their natural habitats (AKA their homes), travel for great lengths of time without food, and then housed in unsanitary tanks with a bunch of other traumatized lobsters? On top of that unbelievable cruelty, they are all headed toward the inevitable fate of being tossed in a boiling pot of water where death can take up to three minutes.
Please stand with me to end this cruel, outdated practice by signing and sharing this petition with as many people as possible.
We are the only ones who can speak up for them and it is about time we do something to stop this. By doing so, we will create a more humane world for lobsters and all living creatures.
We have the power to do this....together.
Thank you.
Updates
January 13, 2021
I am currently compiling a list of local managers who still use tanks to present them with our demands for change. Email your store manager today to ask why they continue this practice while other retailers have already moved on. Post this link on your Facebook page so the pressure on these executives does not let up.
January 13, 2021
The momentum behind this campaign proves that people are no longer willing to ignore the cruelty in these grocery store tanks. Reach out to your local store managers today and demand they adopt the same ethical standards as Whole Foods.
7 Comments
it breaks my heart every time i see them clawing at the glass in those tiny tanks. lobsters are living beings not accessories for a dinner party.
This makes me very sad when I walk by and see these poor creatures suffer on top of each other. This needs to stop!
Grocery Stores or fancy Restaurants! A terrible, terrible practice that must end!
They have a life for a reason who are we to take it away for the use of food
Cruel and unusual punishment
Save the lobesters
save the lobsters :(
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it breaks my heart every time i see them clawing at the glass in those tiny tanks. lobsters are living beings not accessories for a dinner party.