Posted on 01/11/2009 1:34:30 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Lobster to regain his freedom at age 140
01/01/09
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lobster thought to be about 140 years old will be returned to the ocean after briefly becoming the mascot for a New York City restaurant, an animal rights group said on Friday.
The 20-pound (9-kg) lobster was caught off the coast of Canada about two weeks ago and bought for $100 (65 pounds) by City Crab and Seafood to become its mascot, said manager Keith Valenti.
"We bought a big lobster, started taking pictures with kids and it worked out real well," said Valenti, adding it was a "no brainer" to return the old crustacean to the ocean.
He said a lobster's age can be worked out from how much it weighs, with each pound counting for 7 to 10 years. Valenti said it was not uncommon for lobsters to live for more than 100 years but it was rare for them to be caught because they were generally too big for the baskets.
The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it found out that the old lobster was in the restaurant's tank when a diner called them.
"We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace," said PETA's Ingrid Newkirk.
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I don’t think a 140 year old lobster would taste very good.
From what I understand, those old and big ones aren’t very tasty.
That’s no lobster. It’s a sea ...ah...lion?
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Great minds... or would it be gourmets ? ;-)
At his age ,it might have been better to send him to an aquarium.
Put down the clarified butter and step away and no one gets hurt!
Man, I hate these stupid animal rights assholes. It seems the lobster had it made in the restaurant. The poor fellow will probably die right away because he’s been in captivity for so long or become food for something else. These clowns really don’t care about the animal, though, they just want to make a statement.
How come no one called my PETA chapter? My PETA group celebrates our position at the top of the food chain:
People for
Eating
Tasty
Animals
I agree. But my question is this: WHEN are people going to start IGNORING those stupid crybabies??
This is probably right after the zealot found out he wasn’t going to get the critter on his plate.
I remember seeing some people in Calif. who saved a seal at great expense. They all gathered at the beach to put it back into the ocean. They were all so proud and happy watching it swim away.
Then a whale or something pounced on it and ate it.
I asked “What do you want to eat?”.
She replied “jokingly Lobster”.
I went to my favorite restaurant and ordered 2
lobsters with all the trimmings to go.
I also bought the largest lobster in their tank live.
I took the wrappings off of its claws.
I sat it on the bar and we taught it a trick.
You could snap your fingers at it and it would snap
its claws back at you.
big old lobsters are not as good as mid size lobsters...at least in my opinion.
According to the article the lobster had only been in captivity for two weeks.
Fanatics never have to follow their own rules. Liberals are just like Muslims.
>> The 20-pound (9-kg) lobster was caught off the coast of Canada about two weeks ago and bought for $100 (65 pounds) <<
That’s a profit of 45 pounds! (Dang British and their silly monetary system.)
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I believe a shark caught it, thrashed about with him for a second, and took him down.
I feel bad for the seal. I mean, c’mon everything eats everything, but you don’t take pleasure in the death of it - that’s just a step away from the jerks who enjoy torturing animals.
But I did feel great that the environuts best-laden plans went down in flames by nature itself. Puts ‘em in a really weird position. They can’t just go and rip on the shark. It’s just being a shark. But the wacko’s natural urge to blame someone or something else gets totally thwarted. Scheudenfreude.
It would be safer too. Could not get caught in a lobster pot again.
If the good lord didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
Yes, a shark. I felt sorry for the seal but loved the reaction of the animal people. It was almost like they didn’t know that it could be eaten by another.
Or in this case, People Eating Tasty Arthropods, pass the butter!!
According to PETA, it's a "Sea kitten."
I thought it was a Killer Whale?
Could have been a killer whale. Honestly, I don’t remember but someone else said a shark and i agreed.
I agree. That’s why I’m a member of People Eating Tasty Animals. lol
I think it’s been awhile since he was a kitten :’)
Did you see where PETA wants fish called “sea kittens” so that people won’t eat fish? Idiots!—not the fish; PETA.
Okay the story is changing. The way I heard it, or think I remember hearing it, was from Rush Limbaugh many moons ago. It was in Alaska after The Valdez. A sea otter. Whatever the group, they spent a lot of money nursing it back to health. They released the otter with much fanfare, and along came a killer whale and did its thing. I couldn’t verify this on Snopes. Maybe someone knows the story or has a link.
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Expensive Taste
In Dispute: Sea otter, newly released after $50K Exxon Valdez (or other oil spill) clean-up, is immediately eaten by an orca (killer whale).
This is a lovely piece of irony. There's no evidence that it actually happened, at least not in the form the story suggests, with a crowd of onlookers cheering for the expensively saved otter, only to watch in shock and horror as it becomes a $50,000 entree.
On the other hand, otters and other smallish marine mammals are prey items for a number of larger predators (though they are reportedly a very unusual prey item for orcas---not enough blubber to be appealing); it's to be expected that some of those saved from an oil spill will, sooner or later, take their place in the food chain. To paraphrase a post by Derek Tearne, think of it as $50,000 toward the orcas.
They can live that long? Shite!
Do you keep in touch with Leela?
I saw it on television.
It sounds like the enviro/animal activists want to scrub this one from the history books. I was hoping it would be on YouTube, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
You are so right.
Tourists come into Boston restaurants and order the biggest lobster on the menu. No native would ever do that. Small ones are much sweeter.
I think it’s kind of old. I don’t have a good memory when it comes to when something happened. It was one of the West Coast States, it may have been a cleaning from an oil spill. They were all gathered on the beach to see it off, whether it was a sea otter or seal, I don’t know. Then as it swam away a big fish ate it.
I can’t help it, I laugh every time I think about it. All that money they spent.
Animals are absolutely brutal. When I was trying to look for the video of this event, I came across other videos of a similar nature on YouTube. One was a Blue Planet show of a killer whale, a younger killer whale, and a baby seal. They tossed the live baby seal back and forth for a half an hour. They continued it even after it died.
I've also seen a show on cable of the same series where a group of killer whales hounded a bigger whale and her baby for six hours before they finally killed the baby. They didn't even eat the baby. Dolphins are another group that can be brutal to other species of dolphins.
Anyway, what you saw must be the same one Rush was talking about. He said they even had school children out there to see it. Seems like he said a band was out there too--I can't really remember. It was a spectacle, like you said and then the thing was eaten within minutes.
For personal consumption, I'd buy a biggie - much less expensive - and portion it out into the freezer.
I think endorphins (my spelling is off on this) get released when an animal gets attacked. I really don’t think they feel pain the way we think they do.
I hope so. I guess the only way to know is to ask the people that survived bear and shark attacks if they felt much pain during the event.
Most say no pain. I was in a very bad accident when I was young. I didn’t feel a thing until much later in the hospital.
My GF lives on a small lake. There were three, large geese, like the golden goose type goose, not a Canada. I think a nearby Condo Association had put them out, not sure. They didn't seem to fly. Anyway, last winter, when the lake had been frozen over for some time, I got up one morning to make coffee, and looked out the window to see a hawk enjoying a tasty meal. Feathers and blood everywhere. The red spot was there til the ice melted. All three eventually disappeared.
Someone thought they'd make a nice decoration for the lake, but clipped their wings so they wouldn't fly away. Silly misguided people.
Ugh! Though the hawk said, “Thanks for the snack”. Kind of ironic given your screen name too.
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