People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA)
September 2013
The most important thing that you can do to help end the cruelty within the seafood industry is to switch to a vegan diet now.
Tell Linda Bean to use their formerly implemented less cruel and more rapid means of killing lobsters instead of ripping apart live lobsters and crabs, piece by piece, knowing that they can survive for hours after being mutilated.
Watch the
undercover
video AND/OR sign an online petition
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Linda Bean's Perfect Main
P.O Box 368
Rockland Maine 04841
phone (207) 975-2502
[email protected]
[Ed. Note: Also read We Are All Connected.]
A shocking undercover investigation that first broke on CBSNews.com has exposed that live animals are being torn apart. They need your help.
At L.L. Bean heir Linda Bean's Maine Lobster in Rockland, Maine, workers are ripping live animals apart limb from limb. Some are dumped, still alive, into boiling water, while others are left in bins to die in agony.
Workers tear off live lobsters' claws and then use metal pipes to pry their heads from their bodies. Tails and claws are saved while the remaining parts of the lobsters' bodies are trashed, still alive and able to feel pain.
Crabs are suffering, too, as they are slammed against sharp metal spikes to break off their top shells, and then their exposed internal organs are violently scrubbed off with spinning brushes. Still alive, they are then slowly lowered into a vat of boiling water.
Watch the undercover video to see the shocking proof:
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4977&autologin=true&utm_campaign=0913%20Lobster%20Crab%20Bean%20Investigation%20AA&utm_source=PETA%20E-mail&utm_medium=Alert
Lobsters and crabs feel pain. Because lobsters do not have a centralized nervous system—but instead have ganglia, or masses of nervous tissue, spread throughout their bodies—their deaths can be prolonged. A lobster's nervous system continues to function even after the animal is dismembered.
Lobsters are like us in many ways: They have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence, and just like us, they carry their young for nine months and can live to be more than 100 years old.
Around 2.3 million lobsters and countless crabs will be killed at this slaughterhouse this year alone. Don't let more animals suffer this fate.
From CBS News who aired the video:
A top seafood plant in Maine is killing lobsters and crabs using a "primitive and painful" method that violates the state's cruelty-to-animals statute, according to an animal rights group that shot video of the alleged abuse.
PETA said it would file a criminal complaint Tuesday with
local police and the district attorney. Maine law criminalizes intentionally
killing animals by any method that does not cause instantaneous death. The
statute does not specifically exempt lobsters and crabs.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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