The practice of boiling roughly 16,000 lobsters alive amounts to torment, torture and cruelty, alleges the lawsuit filed by ...

PETA has filed a lawsuit against the Maine Lobster Festival, arguing the steaming of lobsters is “egregiously cruel." ...

ROCKLAND, Maine — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit Thursday in Knox County Superior Court ...

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the festival a public nuisance and prohibit boiling lobster on public land.

The animal rights organization says lobsters can feel pain and that the city's decision to allow the festival to steam them ...

PETA argues in the suit that the festival is “one of the most egregious violations of Maine’s animal protection statutes ...

R OCKLAND, Maine — A blood curdling scream rings out on Main Street, a block from where the Maine Lobster Festival is ...

Animal rights organization PETA is suing the city of Rockland and the Maine Lobster Festival, claiming the festival is ...

PETA is suing the Maine Lobster Festival, saying that by steaming live lobsters, the festival is violating Maine’s law ...

Regarding the July 24 article “PETA sues Maine Lobster Festival in an effort to stop steaming of 20,000 pounds of live lobster,” I say kudos to PETA. Lobsters are living creatures that, of course, ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced a lawsuit against the Maine Lobster Festival, claiming that boiling lobsters alive is unlawful and<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" M ...

The debate over whether lobsters feel pain — and the most humane way to cook Maine’s most famous export — has raged for years ...