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

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

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

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

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

PETA is taking legal action against the organizers of the Maine Lobster Festival, arguing that the event's signature practice ...

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

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

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, ...

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