Is that akin to saying that the ladies get prettier at closing time ...?
Posted on 11/29/2022 9:03:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Whole Foods angered elected officials by announcing its plans to cease buying Maine lobsters after climate change groups downgraded the North Atlantic fishing area’s sustainability rating.
Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills and its Congressional delegation sent a note to Whole Foods expressing their “disappointment” in the grocery store giant’s decision to stop buying Maine lobsters, according to the official letter Nov. 22. Whole Foods made the decision after the organizations (Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch) it uses to determine its sustainability ratings downgraded Maine lobster to “the worst rating,” reported The New York Times.
“We are disappointed by Whole Foods’ decision and deeply frustrated that the Marine Stewardship Council’s suspension of the lobster industry’s certificate of sustainability continues to harm the livelihoods of hardworking men and women up and down Maine’s coast,” the Maine officials stated.
The statement cited the “150-year history of sustainability” as proof that Maine fishermen have “consistently demonstrated their commitment to protecting right whales” and denounced the accusations that right whale deaths can be attributed to Maine fishery.
“Despite this, the Marine Stewardship Council, with retailers following suit, wrongly and blindly decided to follow the recommendations of misguided environmental groups rather than science,” the letter continued. “We strongly urge the Marine Stewardship Council and retailers to reconsider their potentially devastating decisions.”
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) suspended its sustainability certificate for Maine lobster on Nov. 16, claiming to have concerns that fishermen’s nets and other gear were entangling North Atlantic right whales, endangering the population. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cited that boats and fishing gear account for the leading causes of North Atlantic right whale deaths, reported The New York Times. According to the most recent audit of the Maine lobster fishery certification, MSC found no evidence that the North Atlantic lobster fishery was responsible for “entanglements or interactions with right whales.”
Here are the two NGOs/cartels, making these moral pronouncements on Maine Lobster
https://www.seafoodwatch.org/collaborations/advisors
They are trying to get to the point where only the elites can have lobsters, but not the masses.
They are practically there.................
Rich leftist yuppies should just eat bugs.
Is that akin to saying that the ladies get prettier at closing time ...?
How do you know? Locals snag Gray Whales fairly often. <<<
What do you call locals????
Our local Wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie and Publix don’t carry live lobster any more, just frozen tails and they are the small Florida Lobsters................
Hoisted by her own petard?
I love things like this that expose the blatant hypocrisy of the left. 😁
This makes no sense.
Nets are not used to catch lobster.
Not for the Maine fisherman!....lowest dock prices in ages...
Never let facts get in the way of a good ban...................
George The Lobster was 140 years old!
The Cockroach Of The Sea
The oldest lobster in the world was named George and its estimated he was an incredible 140 years old, making him older than any human (the oldest human on record was 122 years old).
George is an Atlantic lobster and was caught off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in 2008. He weighed in at 20 pounds with an estimated birth year of 1869, which would approximate his age to be an amazing 140 years old. Fortunately for George, his journey did not end on that boat in Newfoundland or on someone’s plate; instead, he ended up being sold to a seafood restaurant in Park Avenue South for one hundred dollars.
The restaurant manager never intended to sell him to be eaten but to draw attention to the establishment, which worked, and he became a sort of mascot for the establishment. This is also where he would be given his name, with a young restaurant patron dubbing him George.
His time as a mascot was short-lived, however. Word reached PETA about him being kept in the restaurant, and they began to speak out for his release, which is exactly what happened.
They first took him to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where experts would help his acclimation back into the wild. Later, he was later driven to Maine and released back into the waters north of Kennebunkport* by PETA members, where he always belonged, on January 10, 2009. Lobster fishing was forbidden in that area, thus the reason they chose the location.
*Where George was promptly captured and eaten by Bush Dynasty family members that Summer. *SMIRK*
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-worlds-oldest-lobster-140-years-old/
Well, you see, a Right Whale might see the traps and mistake it for food and swallow it and choke on it and die...................
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/record-number-of-whales-getting-caught-in-crab-gear-feds/13275/
I have read that giant lobsters aren’t fit to eat. That their meat is tough and chewy and not sweet tasting at all..............
This is Upstate NY...su***
“..I’m trying to figure out how a whale gets caught in a lobster trap as well...”
Exactly. I seriously doubt that there’s been one of those whales even sighted in the Gulf of Maine in a hundred years. It’s just more utter woke BS. And the Massholes that moved into Maine just re-elected that moronic, Austin Powers look-alike as guv.
Wales!
Oh, are you Whales from England?
When your enemies fight each other, get out of the way!
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