Whole Foods Market Bans the Sale of Live Lobsters

I'd better hurry up before eating lobsters becomes illegal.
The decision by Whole Foods Market and, even more remarkably, Safeway to ban the sale of live lobsters is such great news. When the Grumpy Vegan was PETA’s first executive director (1987-1992) I recall dispatching Cam MacQueen to fly to Portland, ME in 1989 with seven live lobsters to return them to the ocean.

This victory — and others I’m writing about which are such good examples of (stage two) public policy in my five stage analysis — shows how the animal protection movement is poised to move into the third stage: legislation.

The single greatest challenge we face is making animal protection movement a mainstream political issue.

The next decision to be made after Safeway’s and Whole Foods Market’s is for state assemblies to legislate against keeping live lobsters for sale.

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