I was reading on the Yahoo news that a restaurant in New York City has had a twenty pound lobster in its tank for about ten days. It has been estimated that the lobster is 140 years old. The article says that the lobster was destined to be cooked and eaten but that the restaurant has decided to release the lobster instead into the Atlantic ocean in Kennebunkport Maine in an area where lobster fishing is forbidden today. The PETA spokesman was praising their decision to release the lobster, saying it was nice to let the old guy go and live out the rest of his life in peace and freedom.
That’s all well and good, but I’d just like to point out that a lobster meat from a lobster that big is going to be tough and fit only for lobster stew! So that sounds like a nice publicity public relations gig, but in all practicality it would not have been a good eating lobster anyway.