The group is asking the White House’s executive chef to use a device that stuns and kills lobsters, crabs and other shellfish before they are boiled.

Look, I’m not going to lie to you: today has been one of the slowest days of the summer, news-wise. There hasn’t been nearly enough to satiate the news itch of a city of people who have spent the better part of the last two weeks wondering if a tree would crash through their home or if they’d be incinerated by huge plumes of flame shooting up from underneath the sidewalks.