North Alabama vegans protest Lobsterfest

From the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" Department (Alabama)

For the past 18 years, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in southeast Huntsville has drawn thousands of people to its biggest fundraiser of the year, the Lobsterfest.

The church has raised over $300,000, which has gone toward building Habitat houses in Huntsville and providing medical care for poor Hondurans and Haitians.

Some 3,000 people were expected to attend Saturday's event, said church rector, the Rev. Matt Doss.

But that didn't include four people who showed up on the sidewalk in front of the church to protest the annual event -- Dr. Carole Edmonds of Jackson County, Jenni Moody of Huntsville, John Ezell of Decatur and Kathryn Dalenberg of Dekalb County.

The four are members of a Huntsville vegan group that opposes the practice of boiling live lobsters. Edmonds, a dentist who has a practice in Boaz, organized the three-hour peaceful protest.

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