Happy Ending for Lobsters? Huh, what?

Article Briefs:
Dallas Morning News Business Section June 10th
Happy Ending for lobsters at Whole Foods
Atlanta - Just like TV's Jeffersons, the live lobsters at a whole foods Market here are movin' on up.

These Crustaceans are part of that grocery chain's test program, which seeks to make the lobsters' trip from sea to sale more humane. Thus, the ones that wind up at the Whole Foods location in the well-to-do Virginia Highland neighborhood of Atlanta get their own Separate "lobster condo", a cooler, more hospitable water temperature and a dimly lit tank away from glass tapping children.

"We wanted to treat them less like merchandise or a curiosity to be shown to a kid," Said spokeswoman Amy Schaefer.

The measures are in place until at least Thursday, when managers at the company's head office in Austin will decide whether such changes go far enough to ensure that lobsters are being treated compassionately. If they decide the lobsters are not treated well enough, Whole Foods has said it will stop selling live lobsters altogether.

Animal rights groups say it is about time someone paid attention to the plight of the shellfish, which are routinely starved before sale and kept in what activities say are unnatural conditions that are stressful and cruel.
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"Isn't this ridiculous?" asked Robert K. Pidgeon, director of purchasing for Inland Seafood, an Atlanta based distributor of live crabs and lobsters

Fumes:
Have I been living under a rock that just so happens to be under da sea with sponge bob? I have missed their "plight" by all these lobsters with their sit ins at the Capital and at the White House. I guess they also do not allow pens and paper to be placed in the tanks at stores in fear that they might make up little picket signs and start walking in single file line around the tanks.

LOBSTER CONDO- are they joking? So the only way I can think of to be compassionate to these lobsters is to put little billboards up on the bottom of the ocean selling said Condo's and let them make the choice to live there. Or we can take out an ad in the local papers selling them.

Condo for sale in High Class neighborhood of Atlanta. All glass inclossed Individual Condo with cooler temperatures and dimly lit space for those seeking romantic evenings alone. No children allowed.

Less like Merchandise? Huh? They are in a store and for sale thus becoming Merchandise.

Their going to eaten!! So how is living in a "Condo" going to create a happy ending for the Lobsters? That will be cracked, baked, buttered and eaten.

Wouldn't a happy ending be growing old with your Lobster Bride with 12.5 kids and 46.5 grandkids in a ranch style home near the ocean (or in the ocean for lobsters). Then dying in your sleep with no pain? Wouldn't that be a happier end than living in a "condo" until slathered with butter? Crazy me I guess.

I am not much of a Shellfish kind of guy but this is kinda scary to think where this type of thing might lead this weakening country.

When will this craziness end? Or will it get worse? My bet is it will get worse before ever getting better, that is if it will get better. What is a true compassionate demise of a Lobster when you really sit down to think about it.