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USA: Whole Foods Market(R) Reviews Humane Treatment of Live LobstersPress Release Source: Whole Foods Market, Inc.Tuesday November 15, Company Questions Sale of Live Lobsters, Implements Timeline to Investigate Methods to Significantly Upgrade Compassionate Conditions Throughout Entire Supply Chain Process AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI - News; R), the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket and creator of the Animal Compassion Foundation, announced today that it has set a deadline of June 15, 2006 to assess and significantly upgrade the supply chain process to procure and sell live lobsters in a more humane way. If more compassionate standards are not implemented by that date, Whole Foods Market will discontinue the sale of live lobsters.
Link: CEO denounces cruel treatment of animals Date: 2005-11-17
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