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.

[wolfette]

I'm allergic to crabs and lobsters.

[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?

[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.

[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.