Whole Foods Bans Sale of Live Lobsters

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/06/15/financial/f165548D47.DTL

(06-15) 16:55 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) --

Customers craving fresh crustaceans will have to look beyond Whole Foods Market Inc. after the natural-foods grocery chain decided Thursday to stop selling live lobsters and crabs on the grounds that it's inhumane.


Lobster logo reminds us to club a sandwich not seals. :-)

[NMMNG]

1. It's a start

But a small one.

Whole Foods leaders will reconsider the decision if they see evidence that it's possible to ensure lobsters and crabs are treated humanely throughout the supply chain, she said.

1. People are never going to stop tossing their live lobsters into boiling water.
2. Why just lobsters and crabs? I don't imagine all of the animals WF gets their meat from are treated humanely "throughout the supply chain".

[Critters2]

2. They want 'em treated humanely throughout the supply chain

so that people can buy 'em and boil 'em alive?

:wtf:

Well, the important thing is they've stopped doing it.