{"id":25,"date":"2006-06-17T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-06-17T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T16:53:07","slug":"25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/25\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Market Bans the Sale of Live Lobsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 270px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lobster2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lobster2.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I'd better hurry up before eating lobsters becomes illegal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>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&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>This victory &#8212; and others I&#8217;m writing about which are such good examples of (stage two) public policy in my five stage analysis &#8212; shows how the animal protection movement is poised to move into the third stage: legislation.  <\/p>\n<p>The single greatest challenge we face is making animal protection movement a mainstream political issue.  <\/p>\n<p>The next decision to be made after Safeway&#8217;s and Whole Foods Market&#8217;s is for state assemblies to legislate against keeping live lobsters for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s first executive director (1987-1992) I recall dispatching Cam MacQueen to fly to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}