Carrefour make advertising at French radio for selling live lobsters (in French "homards vivants"). Please take an action and tell Carrefour, that lobsters like other animals suffer from pain and they should support rather more conscious consumer behavour than animal cruelty.
We, the undersigned, are outraged that your stores engage in the cruel practice of selling live lobsters.
Studies have confirmed that lobsters in unattended tanks often succumb to death by starvation, dehydration, heat, or fights with other lobsters. During transportation and storage, they suffer from dehydration, red-tail bacterial disease, shell disease, and "bumper car" disease as a result of extremely crowded conditions. Rough handing of lobsters, including being thrown, causes open wounds and lesions. They also suffer from an inability to breathe properly in air, which results in acidosis and toxin buildup. A Canadian study found that 19 percent of lobsters had a missing claw when they arrived at factories and packing stations.
Lobsters are unique and fascinating animals that do not have automated nervous systems to put them into a state of shock when they are harmed. Therefore, marine biologists theorize that lobsters feel every second of pain inflicted upon them before their death.
They are extremely social sea animals that use signals to communicate with each other; they travel up to 100 miles per year and can live to be up to 150 years old!
We, the undersigned, urge you to please terminate the cruel and unnecessary selling of live lobsters in your supermarkets and their affiliates.
Thank you.
