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  • Whole Foods Market bans sale of live lobsters

    06/16/2006 12:26:34 PM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 108 replies · 2,007+ views
    AP via Boston.com ^ | 15 June 2006 | Liz Austin
    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. The Austin-based grocer, which has stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, spent seven months studying the sale of live lobsters from ship to supermarket aisle, trying to determine whether the creatures suffer along the way. In some stores, they experimented with "lobster condos," filling tanks with stacks of large pipes the critters can crawl inside. And they moved the tanks behind seafood counters and away from...