This interview in Salon with Lobster Expert Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters, puts my mind at ease. Corson spent 2 years catching lobsters as part of his research, and apparently, many stupid but large or pregnant lobsters wander into traps repeatedly and are thrown back to spawn more stupid lobsters. So we may be eating stupid lobsters, but there's a lot more lobster stupidity where that came from.
He also offers instructions on more humane ways of killing your lobster dinner and a few factoids about lobster life that will make you feel not quite so bad about plunging it live into boiling water if you choose to stick with the traditional method. They're vicious, cannibalistic, belligerent creatures, and I won't even get started on the urinating from the forehead.
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