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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>> 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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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.
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