Victory: Raley's Stops Selling Live Lobsters! January 9, 2007

no one wants to see chained up animals!!!! do your part and stop lobster cruelty. PLEASE!!!

Right on! Thanks, everyone - Every victory, no matter how small, helps :)

PLEASE STOP the inhumane treatment of lobsters, they do not deserve to suffer in this manner!

why do stores have to sell lobsters alive its gross and disgusting

I'm so happy they've stopped! SO HAPPY! yay for thousands of innocent creatures.

There are live lobsters still being sold at Super K-Mart. I dont think they'll stop, its been going on since i can remember, for years. But, im happy Raley's stopped :)

heather murphy,peta.

This is totally barbaric!!!!
Those poor helpless creatures.. how would you like it if you were put in a air tight container and left on the shelf...
I can't get over how sick and twisted this is!!!

I was so happy to hear that Raley's stopped carrying live lobsters. I live in nevada and visited a store once but didn't want to shop there again because of the sad conditions of the lobsters. Now I can shop there knowing that the store is setting a good example for other stores to fallow, and stop the sale of live animals. Thank you so much! Michelle

Hooray for PETA and Raley's!

thanks to all who helped!

woohoo!! It's great to know that people care enough about animals to speak their mind and put a stop to abuse, congrats everyone!

Though small, Lobsters are such as precious animals as dogs and cats give them a chance. Its all for the better

Please Please Please stop this madness!!!!
It's inhumane!

OMG!! thats FANTASTIC!!!

If only KFC would end their torture as quick as Raley's! Life would be better.

I hate seeing live Lobsters... it's sickening. How can people still eat them with the lobsters RIGHT there? If only they did the same thing with cows. I doubt people could watch a cow getting slaughtered...

-katie-

YAYA! ONE SMALL STEP FOR PETA! ONE GIANT LEAP FOR RALEY'S LOBSTERS!!! :D

what has the world become...

lobsters are also animals stop treating them cruely!!!!!

im so glad to hear u hav stopped
it makes me feel better
but we still need help hav others as well
end this disgusting act.

awesome!

I hope they are not doing this anymore. I used to shop Raleys in Sacto. Cal. It is also horrible that dinner houses have live lobsters in a tank in their foyers and when they kill them they put them in boiling water alive and they scream. What could be more horrible than to be boiled alive. I will not eat at these places

I hope they are not doing this anymore. It is also very horrible to see live lobsters in a restaurant and know that they boil them alive. They scream in pain. This in very inhumane. I refuse to eat at these places and I tell the owners why. What a way to spoil your appetite.

Small but great step towards understanding pain and cruelty. We are finally taking moral values seriously. Its an achievement for everybody.

Imagine your child being sold inside a plastic container with almost no air to breath, left there to die and be eaten by huge animal, much more powerful than you! Where is compassion?

Super Walmarts in Norman, Oklahoma also sell live lobsters. It's disturbing to know that they will be boiled alive!

Awesome!! I'm so happy to hear about this! Every step helps!

this is a big improvment, I hope other places will take the same concideration. and stop selling live lobsters, i am sure most people don't what to think about boiling something alive anyways, I know I don't.

~even though they can not talk they have a right, help fight for those who can not speak~

agfgfdsg yayy! this took affect kinda quick.

its wonderful to hear they've stoped cayying live lobster.

i love lobsters!!

Thanks everyone for all your effort into this! Congratulations to us for winning this!

NOW WE HAVE TO GET WINN DIXIE AND PUBLIX!!!!!!!!!!!!

it makes me feel a lot better that you guys have stopped. thanks so much for the sake of the lobsters ! :]

To Whom It May Concern,
A life is a life is a life! We wouldn't treat a human or a dog as poorly as a lobster! Please respect all life on earth! Leave the lobsters in the ocean instead of torturing them in the grocery stores.
RWBollenbecker

To Whom It May Concern:

A life is a life is a life! The government would take action if you chained up and withheld food from a human or a dog. Why should a lobster be treated differently? I don't think I know a single child who wouldn't be horrified at knowing why those lobsters are in the tank and how they are not being fed.
Rachel W. Bollenbecker

lopsters are living thing how would u like to be stuck in a box to die stop abusing lopsters

hey!! that is so good, there is no raley in my country. all the same, lobsters were killed in the U.S.A, so, its kind of the same. i could have helped, but nobody told me i could send an e-mail to try to stop this. thank you, i the word of these smal animals

lobsters have feeling 2.
its no fun being boiled.

finally they stop!!!

This is great!!
I remember when I was younger I seen them in Price Choppers and felt really bad for them.

I remember when I was a kid and I saw the lobsters packed in a tiny tank on top of eachother.

I think children have a great sense of intellegence because they question things and they want an answer. And even when you give them an answer they still say, "buy, why?", lol.

As a child I knew they suffered and eventually I somehow became numb to it until years later. I now know that they DO suffer and they are certainly sentient. I feel so much better knowing this because now I can help them.

I know that if I was a lobster I would want someone to speak up for me. When companies put these creatures in these environments they are terrorising these animals. That to me is unexcusable. And while I live in Canada and we don't have Raley's, I'll spread the awareness to other people using net activism.

Raley's, we'll leave you alone as soon as you comply!

Andre

I'm So Glad! Tourchering them like that is wrong. Please try to stop more places. maybe we can stop tghem selling them in the small tanks. Maybe if we give it a shot. I eally hopw that it will help!!!!

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live lobsters should be that exactly LIVE

not one living thing deserves to be caged up and boiled alive!

WHY KILL? animals deserve to be treated just like us so next time you want to eat meat think would you like to be chained up all your life then slaughtered.

SHOP AT STATER BROS!!!!! See through the eyes of the Lobsters, stop killing them!!

This is disgusting. How can people be so heartless.

Congrat's guys!

cool, now we just gotta keep doing that untill every single store that sells live lobsters change their mind!

that is awesome go peta2 actvists!!!!!!!!!

I can't get over how stupid this is !!
Those poor animals !
Would you want to be chained up in a box having people star at you and to act like you're on show?

NO !!

Do your part !!
Help !!

Yay poor lobsters! Free! I hate walking passed them in the super market where I live. I'm trying to get them to not to sell live crabs up here in Canada. Wish me Luck!

Gee, i love peta!!

YAY!
This is great to hear!
Lets keep up the good work!

so

i just got called a hippie for being environmentally aware.

and for caring about animals.

huh??

I LOVE U GUYS..

YOU ROCK

I'm thrilled that this has stopped. It still sucks that they are in tanks at a local albertsons i saw a couple of lobsters still alive just swimming awaiting their doom.

Yaaaaayy for PETA!!
Victory!!!

We still fighting!!

xVEGANx

thtz so asick and cruel. isn't that endangering an animals? couldn't they get arrested 4 dat?? this should totally stop like now!!! i vote to stop sellin' live lobsters!!! heck yes!

I am so glad for the organizations that hold fast to keeping all animal, marine and other life alive and well. I can't thank you enough for opening my eyes to a vegan world I now enjoy.

oh my god. how can someone keep live animals in a plastic container with no oxygen? i almost cried right now but im glad to here that this is over with! yay!!!

No consciousness should be subjected to continous pain.

its so wrong to have an animal in a tank on display just to show you that its alive before they boil it to death for you to eat. thats soo cruel.

YAYAYAYYYA!!! that is GREAT news!!! people FINALLY taking some kind of a hint how horrible this is!!!

:] yay, for saving lobsters.

Hey Guyz!

Great work. As my family is from Cincy, was thinking you might wanna target Krogers!
They are only the biggest national grocery chain you know!!!

:)

Thet

It was a small victory,but a great one.I hope that other reputable food chains consider what and how they sell their food.I'm from Sydney in Australia but we sent emails because cruelty to us is not bound by a border.Now if we could only stop them people from boiling them alive.

It is very disturbing the number of stores that sell live lobsters they DO INFACT scream when you boil them and it is proven they feel pain. Although my favorite store to shop in is Wegmans, based in Rochester, NY, they carry live lobsters which has made me consider not shopping there anymore.

Im so happy they stoped..now if the rest of them would stop. I see people in the stores showing their kids the lobsters and saying "arent they cute" then they eat them...its horrible!

I am very happy to hear about this victory. This is very traumatizing for me to see, I can only imagine the trauma suffered by these poor defenseless creatures!

next lets go after walmart.

I am sooo glad but did you also know that when they keep the lobsters they also dont feed them while they are in the store. How cruel is that. At least one victory for all the animals.

w000000t LOBSTERS!!!!!!!!!!

One small step for mankind; a giant step for lobsters. Free all lobsters! Leave barbarism behind.

C REEVES... I have also been to the Walmart in OK where they sell live lobsters. I am also very troubled and concernced about this. We need to take action! Agree?

How cruel, to put an animal in a air-tight container for sale. I do not shop @ places that sell live lobsters, nor do I eat @ any restaurants that do have them in a tank. There is nothing like, walking by a tank of live lobsters, as the hostess is taking you to your seat. Boy, what a way to lose your appetite.

Great success!!! Very glad that our little crustacean friends are saved. Now, we can continue our crusade to stop Super Wal-Mart and the Asian stores from displaying these poor lobsters inhumanely! ~jacque

i have been sooo sad everytime i would go to a store and see the lobsters!1 i am sooo happy that they are now not letting them suffer in the little glass boxes

I work at Raley's, and be impartial as I am, I decided to talk to someone from my meat department. After the conversation I determined this might have been exaggerated, but Is not necessary for our company to continue.

Thank God for this victory. I am so happy to hear this. Please email your thanks to the company's that go cruelty free, they like to hear about the good things that they do also. Now I say lets go after Walmart. They are the giant company that can really make a difference. Trust me I put my stickers on the tank everytime I am there. Again praise to Rayley's!!!

Thank God this has stopped! Ever since I was a kid I was so disturbed when I learned those lobsters in the tanks weren't sold for "pets". I wish this would spread to ALL grocers and restaurants!

It's so nice to see that OUR voices COUNT!!
Thanks for the info, it made my day that much sweeter..Have a good weekend all~

when my kids were small they remember how we use to put the sticker from peta "lobsters have feelings too. on the lobster tanks in the supermarkets. they like me have never tasted a lobster. i cringe and my heart breaks every time i see a lobster tank in the A & P and stop & Shop stores. i did give a letter to the a&p manager but it didn't stop him from selling them yet (anything to make a buck). it is pathetic,

I remember when I was a little girl, my mom took me to a local supermarket. There were these blue lobsters in a tank with their claws tied closed. Every time when I went past them, I said "Oh look mommy, it's Larry! Why are their claws tied up like that? Doesn't it hurt them?" and my mom would say "No honey-it doesn't hurt them at all. Their tied up so that the cook can pick them up without getting pinched". I decided to take a closer look, just to say hi! When the lobsters saw me...their cute little antanne stuck up in the water and they all crawled to the back of the tank (I guess they were scared). Since I have loved animals since I was a little kid, I felt bad for scaring them and said "Don't worry Larry and Larry's family, I don't eat lobster-you guys don't look so tasty!" Then their tails started to stand up a bit. "Hey! Why you scared of me? At least I'm not a big, fat, stupid idiot who ties your claws closed!!!" I said out loud with passion. Then I hear an "Ahem!", looked up and saw the cook! "Oh! Sorry sir! My daughter doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut..." my mom said sheepishly. Then we just kept on shopping.

This happened when I was 2-now I'm 16. I wasn't a vegatarian back then-but I am now! I still miss those lobsters though...

This is so great to hear. Just the other week I was shopping in a grocery store, Schnucks I think it was, and saw dozens of lobsters crammed into a container in the middle of the seafood section. It was horrible and honestly so disturbing to see I left the store and refused to shop there.

I am from Cape Cod, MA. They commercialize on lobster as MD does with crab. Are the crabs different? NO.
I used to love lobster. I am an animal vet tech and a phlebotomist. They scream alright. Waters are poluted everywhere. Lobsters and crabs eat what we throw in the waters, think about it. I hope that Giant foods will follow in Maryland.
Baltimore, MD
patron for the rights of animals
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Way to go... Great job and kudos to Raley's!

I am so glad...it was disgusting to see those helpless creatures in those tanks

who is the one who said dogs and cats can come in the house but not cows or pigs or chickens. If you are out there saving wild life you cant go home at night and have a chicken dinner . that dont make sense. all animals are the same.

What a relief! It is definitely sick and uncivilized to have live animals sold in a shop.

No matter how small a step this seems it really does count. That's great.

Way to go!!!! Now if other business's would do the same, such as WalMart..On behalf of lobsters everywhere THANK YOU RALEY'S :)

As a former seafood market employee, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Maine lobsters have personalities and are all different. After my first day, I felt like I had hundreds of pets that people took from me to kill.

Yes! one of the sea creatures was saved from a hyper-stress life, It will contribute a big part on the poor helpless animals. Thanx to Raley's grocery chain. It is better to other foodmart to follow this pledge by Raley's, their one good example.

One more victory for another animal's rights. I have never had lobster as food, nor do I desire to after seeing live lobsters in a large water filled aquarium at a local grocery store climbing over eachother trying to escape! I'll have my beans and rice instead :)

how can we stop other stores in the world from killing lobsters and stop all boiling animals alive it is sick poor cats and dogs of china HELP stop it

HOOORAYYY!!! I would always get sad watching the poor lobsters confined like that..plus their ALIVE...that's sick and twisted! I'm glad something's being done

I agree that these lobsters should not be sold but I could not help but correct those that think Lobsters scream when dropped in boiling water. The sound is actually caused by air trapped in the shell and when the heat hits the shell it expands, causing the screaming sound.
Even if they dont scream, they dont deserve the cruel treatment.

Before I became an animal activist, I would not eat lobster because of hearing that they are boiled alive. That really bothered me to hear this.
Of course later, when I hear about the abuse of other animals, I gave up all meat.

I think it is sad to treat any living creature with cruelty. As much as I hate scorpions, I still would never want to hear of one being tortured.
I am curious, what about Red Lobster and all grocery stores keeping lobsters piled up in aquariums. It is even sad to see the lobsters in aquariums on top of eachother and not being able to move. Why do creatures have to be treated so horribly?

people who kill sheep and lobsters and any other helpless animal are sick in the head they have feelings too!

Lobsters are known by scientists to have intelligence and a social order. It is time to stop keeping lobsters encaged at any foodstore. It is time to end the human downfall of thinking animals exist for our wiles and desires. They have every right to live their own lives free of human enfringement.

I know two stores (Meijer in Illinois and super wal mart in Lake Geneva WI) that I go to that sell live lobsters. Its so sad seeing them all crowded in this small round tank with over 30 lobsters just sitting there trying to move around. I'm glad that you guys got that store to take out all those lobsters. People don't understand how cruel it is to see lobsters just sitting there waiting to die.

GREAT
now make saveonfoods do it
I was crying in there :(

Thank god that they don't sell live lobsters in Australian supermarkets. It makes me sick just thinking about boiling and animal alive.

I hate to see lobsters confined in a small tank, waiting to die. I'm glad some food chains are compasionate enough to stop this cruelty.

Gemma

yay! :]
now meijers and super K mart has to stop :[

All creatures should be treated equally.
Ever since I was really little it has bothered me seeing the live lobsters in stores. It's nice to know that other people care and atleast one store has made a change.
I vote next step, Red Lobster

i am so glad they are not doing that any more it is gross and so sad to think they will be boiled alive it makes me so mad but i am glad they are not doing it any more!!!

yay, this makes me so happy :) good job everyone.

Congratulations from Argentina!!!
Keep up the good work.

dude, i saw a fish market store with live fisha nd stuff ready for the taken, people would just walk in and be like, i want this and they would grab the fish and then they would just disembowl it, it was horrible, i mean, like the gills were still moving when he cut off the head, it was horrible, and i wanted to stop them, but they did it so fast, so i just stood back and watched the horrid slaughter of five beutiful fish, it was pretty bad, ill try to get vidio and u-tube for you guys to get tehse people destroyed

This is absolutly AMAZING!

How compassionate of Raleys to think of the animal's feelings before their profit increase.

Selling dead lobsters (or other meat product)is still not acceptable still. But its a start!!!

Best news of the day... This one's for the lobster, we'll stop this inhumane treatment.. One store at a time baby!

Just imagine yourself been boiled alive!!!!!

It's time to put the heat on Super K's and Walmart. I shop all the time at Walmart like most of us do. I never knew they sold live Lobsters there. That's gross.

im glad that 1 place has stopped. but it is only a small scale victory. there are tons of other stores and resturants that do this. i realize thatit is impossible to try and completly stop humans from eating meat. But we can at least accomplish getting people to kill painlessly. i dont like the word "humane" b/c humans are the most cruel creatures on Earth. +Katie Jo Newman+

God save the lobsters! :) Every time I go into Meijers Store, I want to set them free from the tank of water. It is totally inhumane to enjoy eating something you know just suffered so much. Let's be victorious for them all! :)

Obesity and heart attacks are God's revenge for
eating His animal friends.

EVERYTIME I GO TO WALMART OR ANY OTHER PLACE THAT HAS LIVE LOBSTER AQUARIUMS I PUT A BOLING HURTS! STICKER ON THE GLASS!!

those sick bastards dont even deserve to live for someone that does that to a living creature can rot in hell

please stop the selling of live lobsters! Like all animals, they feel pain and suffer, too. Stop this torcher and animal cruelty! Please, end this soon, it is AWFUL AND INHUMANE!!!

I can't believe Raleys could do a thing like that. Like a person from a previous comment mentioned, what if you were put in a plastic container. That is just absolutely SICK! I can't believe that people have the heart to do such a cruel thing to animals. One more victory for PETA!

this is amzing:]
some of the vegetarians here where i live
do eat lobsters or other kinds of
seafood.
i've always knew they were counted as meat.
thanxx.

you people have FAR too much time on your hands. Get out and do something good for humanity and stop defending the lives of bugs that have a nerve centre the size of a flea...just slighly smaller than your own.

It's nice that they stopped doing that.
But, to everyone who thinks lobsters scream when boiled, it is not true. Lobsters don't even have vocal cords. They don't make any noise of any kind.
The only sound you might here is air escaping from its stomach. Or it's just your imagination.

However, I'm sure lobsters can feel some kind of pain, though probably very faint since their nerve center is extremely small.
I'm not a vegetarian (unlike most of you), but I do support it in every way.

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