100 year old lobster caught and released

[Catherine]

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.