Price Chopper still sells lobsters crammed into small tanks so people can buy and boil them alive. After hearing from concerned customers, US grocery chains like Safeway and Raley's Supermarkets have discontinued the sale of live lobsters and Switzerland has already put a law in place that prohibits lobsters from being cooked alive.
Lobsters are Sensitive Beings
When kept in tanks, they can suffer from stress associated with confinement, low oxygen levels, and severe crowding.
Lobsters experience severe, prolonged pain when they are killed by being boiled alive, being frozen to death, or having their brain severed from their spinal cord. Most people wouldn't feel comfortable dropping any other live animal into a pot of boiling water and watching him or her struggle to survive, so why do it to a lobster? They are animals, too, and they deserve our consideration.
Some less known facts:
- Tearing lobsters limbs off while the animals are still conscious is common in crustacean processing facilities.
- Lobsters take long-distance seasonal journeys and can cover 100 miles or more each year.
- Lobsters can live 100 years or longer.
- Lobsters lead complex social lives. They recognize other lobsters as individuals, and they know where they live.
Even Jaren G. Horsley, Ph.D says:
"As an invertebrate zoologist who has studied crustaceans for a number of years, I can tell you the lobster has a rather sophisticated nervous system that, among other things, allows it to sense actions that will cause it harm. ... [Lobsters] can, I am sure, sense pain."
Please help us end the suffering of these Lobsters at Price Chopper Supermarkets by signing this petion. Thank you!
