Someone provided a link to this story about PETA whining over the deaths of lobsters in a recent accident in Maine.<\/p>\n
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to build a memorial to lobsters who died in a rollover accident near Brunswick, ME.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2018\/08\/29\/news\/midcoast\/peta-hopes-to-build-memorial-where-lobsters-may-have-died-in-brunswick-crash\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCountless sensitive crustaceans experienced an agonizing death when this truck rolled over and their bodies came crashing down onto the highway,\u201d PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said. \u201cPETA hopes to pay tribute to these individuals who didn\u2019t want to die with a memorial urging people to help prevent future suffering by keeping lobsters and all other animals off their plates.\u201d<\/p>\n Brunswick Police have indicated that they have no information on how many, if any, lobsters died in the crash. \u2013 Article.<\/p>\n Some information on lobsters is probably a worthwhile endeavor at this point.<\/p>\n For example, the male lobster, being the romantic fellow that he is, not only digs a burrow for the female lobster he\u2019s courting. He also lines it with specifically selected bits of this and that, which he has scavenged from the local sea bottom, and includes a perfume of his own making to lure in the object of his affections.<\/p>\n Lobsters apparently do not have a limit to their lifespan. The oldest lobsters recorded are, among others, the Big Dipper, caught by some Maine lobstermen, estimated to be around 50 years old; Patrick, who lives at the Devon, UK, aquarium, age 50++; Larry, from Florida, estimated to be 110 years old; Louie, age 132, who had been living in Pete\u2019s Clam Bar in Hempstead, NY, until he was returned to the wild; and George, age 140, who was caught off Newfoundland, but ended up in New York, and was returned to the wild.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.oldest.org\/animals\/lobsters\/<\/a><\/p>\n The amorous nature of the lobster species does not lessen with age, either. The older they get, the more they reproduce. Unlike the mayfly, whose lifespan begins when they leave the larval stage, and ends 24 hours later, lobsters seem to have no limit to their lifespan, which means that if they gain approximately 7 pounds per year and the 4th<\/sup> lobster on that list weighed in at 51.5 pounds, he was around 365++ years old. If the lobstermen hadn\u2019t caught him in 1926, he\u2019d probably still be down there at the bottom, luring in the girls and making little lobsters.<\/p>\n Think about that the next time you want oysters. You might be better off with lobster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"