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Ban the live sales of decapod crustaceans

Ban the live sales of decapod crustaceans

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Every day in the UK animals like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish (decapod crustaceans) are sold alive to the untrained public to be killed and cooked at home. This causes extreme pain and suffering to these fragile, sentient animals.  

In shops, markets and fishmongers around the UK they are closely packed together, with their claws tightly banded, out of water or often on ice which can cause suffocation, injury and even death. Live crabs have even been found for sale packaged and bound tightly in shrink-wrapped plastic.  

Once purchased, they may be taken to the consumers home in just a ...

Every day in the UK animals like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish (decapod crustaceans) are sold alive to the untrained public to be killed and cooked at home. This causes extreme pain and suffering to these fragile, sentient animals.  

In shops, markets and fishmongers around the UK they are closely packed together, with their claws tightly banded, out of water or often on ice which can cause suffocation, injury and even death. Live crabs have even been found for sale packaged and bound tightly in shrink-wrapped plastic.  

Once purchased, they may be taken to the consumers home in just a plastic bag, with no protection for their delicate limbs, where they may be handled, stored, and slaughtered through inappropriate - and painful - means.  

They could be carved up into pieces while fully conscious. Or boiled alive. It is estimated that a brown crab boiled alive may remain conscious for up to three minutes, something which would be considered completely unacceptable in a vertebrate animal like a pig or chicken.

Crustacean Compassion believes that these sentient animals deserve more, and need your help to end this inhumane treatment crustaceans experience in the UK. 

We wouldn’t expect people to be able to buy any other live animal to kill at home and we are asking for equal protection for decapods.

Together let’s stop the live sales of decapods to the public!

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Sign the petition to end live sales

Decapods likes crabs, lobsters and prawns experience pain, joy and suffering like other sentient animals. But they are not protected by UK legislation like other sentient animals.

We don't think this is right! They should not be sold alive to be inhumanely killed by untrained members of the public. 

Help us prevent this unacceptable suffering and sign our petition calling for an end to the live sale of decapod crustaceans! 

Decapod crustaceans should not be sold alive, where they experience severe pain and suffering due to inappropriate and inhumane handling, storage and killing methods by untrained members of the public.

I support Crustacean Compassion's petition to end this cruel trade. 

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