A 100 year old, 23 pound lobster was caught in the waters off New Brunswick, Canada. He was given the name King Louie and his future was uncertain. That is until a vegan bought him and arranged for his release back into the ocean.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...RDMD8MHl0w
I can't imagine how anyone would consider eating a 100 year old animal. Somehow it just seems wrong.
Fortunately someone acted fast enough to save King Louie and now hopefully he will live out his life as was meant to be.
I'm so glad he will be released to live the rest of his life free. I hate seeing lobsters in the tanks with their claws bound at the grocery store. I used to have pet crabs. They were Fiddler Crabs.
What good news for King Louie!
I had no idea Lobsters lived so long....and presumably he has many good years still in him!
I had a friend (who passed away 2011) who bought Lobsters to release them. Before he came to live in my area, he lived on the island of Jersey so was always near the sea. His mother passed, and left him an inheritance. He would go to the finest restaurant where they had Lobsters in tanks, and the diners could choose which one they wanted. He bought the lot, had a tank ready in his car outside, and drove them to the water where he released them. Apparently he did this more than once.
Oddly, he wasn't strictly vegetarian or vegan. He still ate meat sometimes. But he felt very sorry for the Lobsters who were waiting to be boiled alive.
(12-02-2016, 05:09 AM)Tobi Wrote: [ -> ]Oddly, he wasn't strictly vegetarian or vegan. He still ate meat sometimes. But he felt very sorry for the Lobsters who were waiting to be boiled alive.
Yes, that is the crux of the matter. Boiling alive is one of the cruellest ways of killing creatures. Even before I stopped eating meat, I wouldn't eat shrimps, prawns, mussels, crabs, etc. for that very reason.
What Catherine says is also very true, however. If a creature has made it to 100 years, it deserves to live out its remaining years in peace.
Quote:Oddly, he wasn't strictly vegetarian or vegan. He still ate meat sometimes. But he felt very sorry for the Lobsters who were waiting to be boiled alive.
Even if someone still eats meat there is a difference between "seafood" and meat. Boiling animals alive is particularly brutal. All the different forms of shell fish and crustaceans are cooked live or eaten raw and alive. Sometimes they are cut up while still alive. People don't see them as living creatures.
They are seen as a food source. The name says it all, they are collectively called seafood. Maybe we need to push for them to be called Sea Creatures. It would help change people's thinking if they saw them as alive.
King Louie did a lot to help other lobsters. He was given a name and people are seeing him as real. Having someone buy him and release him is like a fairy tale ending and we all like happy endings.
It is clear that eating a 100 year old animal is wrong. What about the other lobsters. They could live to be 100 years old. After all King Louie made it. Is it right to eat something that could live to be 100 years. Is it right to potentially deprive an animal of that many years.
I am hoping the story of King Louie causes people to think and open discussions about eating sea creatures.
Think of all the history that has happened in the time that King Louie has been swimming in the ocean.