Eat Less Chiken

[jhetley]

Maine lobstermen (and lobsterwomen) face certain doom.  Prices at the dock have plummeted due to the economic slowdown, and the costs of running a lobster boat have rocketed through the roof.  Ain't worth headin' out t' pull traps.

Thus does the crisis in consumer confidence hit home on the Maine coast.  Folks, even if your 401K has tanked, boil up a couple of bugs for dinner!  Save our way of life!

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I haven't had lobster in a long time, because it got too expensive. cymrullewes probably wouldn't be able to risk eating it anyway, with her broad-spectrum seafood allergy. (We can't identify the actual trigger, despite her having had an allergy test series.)

It doesn't help that I know if I go to the store right now and buy a couple lobsters, very little of what I pay will end up in the hands of actual lobstermen. (Or lobsterwomen.) I'd much sooner buy at the dock, where (a) I'll pay less, (b) I'll know it's fresh, and (c) I'll know it's all going to the lobstermen.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

(I can't eat shellfish either...)

Actually, most of Maine's catch goes to Canadian processors. It's all part of that Canadian Imperialist Plot to annex New England. Which I support.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

And my work is almost finished.

[(Anonymous)]

Could we get the west coast added to the annexation list?

It'll save me a ton of paperwork ;)

[wolfette]

I'm allergic to crabs and lobsters.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

I also wish there was a way to do this and do it on more of a "buy local" basis.

Maybe time to promote Maine tourism as well?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no question that buying live shellfish away from the coast gives the middlemen most of the take. It's funny, but even 20 miles inland, our supermarket lobsters probably come by way of Nova Scotia . . .

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Most crabs sold in Maryland restaurants come from Thailand.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

You don't hear me complaining about that. My wife's never been up that way, but I think it's high time to rectify that problem.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't dangerously allergic to lobster, I'd be leading the pack. I have nothing but respect for the amount of work lobstermen do, and I'll talk the Czarina into getting the Surf & Turf the next time we go out for dinner, just for them.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder whether a person eating lobster, or swordfish, or whatever in the way of seafood, actually realizes that men and women risk their lives and die on a regular basis, putting that meat on the table.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

We have a similar problem here in Maryland with crabs, complicated by laws that require the watermen to put the female crabs back into the bay.