White House Flips Off U.S. Fishing Industry
Joe Biden ejoyed a lavish state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron today and decided use the occasion to also make a political statement.
Joe Biden ejoyed a lavish state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron today and decided use the occasion to also make a political statement.
Thanks to a California environmentalist group red listing the animal, Whole Foods states their stores will not carry Maine lobster until the classification is changed (which could be quite a while). One other way environmentalists will rob people of the food they need. Image by grfx4 from Pixabay
A California environmentalist group named Seafood Watch has black listed American lobster deeming it unsustainable. According to the Portsmouth Herald, the point of contention that the group has and resulted in the declaration is Seafood Watch alleges the fishing industry has not done enough to reduce the possibility of doing harm to North Atlantic right… Read More California Environmentalists Get Maine Lobster Black Listed
A debate in Switzerland occurred last week when the Swiss government ordered that the practice of live lobsters being dropped in boiling water in order to cook them be ceased since doing so could cause the lobsters pain. An alternative is to stun them before doing so as to ensure that they (in theory) may… Read More The New York Times Pitches for Lobster “Rights” …. Sort Of
Chris Schorr of The Bangor Daily News has written an essay on how People for the Extortion, Terror and Abuse of human beings (PeTA) harassed Maine’s lobster industry. During October of 2013 Schorr attended a protest outside LL Bean heiress Linda Bean’s restaurant located in Freeport. There, a protest hosted by a local PeTA affiliate… Read More How PeTA harassed Maine’s lobster industry