The selling and cooking of live lobsters is beyond cruel. Lobsters are crammed in to small containers stuffed with many more lobsters and are often unfed until death. The merchants choose not to feed the lobsters in order to stop their excretement filling up the tanks. These invertebrate may try to eat each other or starve to death before a torturous death. Lobsters are cut open, an agonizing process, and then boiled alive just so their freshness can be retained for the restauranteers to enjoy. Many restaurants argue that lobsters do not have very well developed nervous systems so they do not experience the pain. In reality, these lobsters feel the same pain as any other animal including humans. They suffer immensly from the boiling water and will try to scratch the tank and escape, though unfortunately they cannot. Please sign this petition and ask 10 lobster merchants to stop such animal cruelty.