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winter Olympic games, actually has a law that imposes a fine if you
fail to walk your dog three times a day. Given this, it's not all
that surprising to hear that they are regarding lobsters with the
same feelings most reserve for cats and dogs.
A restaurant in Vicenza, Italy, was fined $855 for attempting to subject a lobster to a prolonged death, though the restaurant owners had no direct intention of killing the creature. They were displaying the live lobster on ice as a promotion for their seafood business. The case was first brought to the Italian courts in 2002 when a former environmental activist took his two small children to the restaurant, where they were "shocked by the display."
Lobsters can live out of water for at least 24 hours and up to several days. They have a specialized gill that allows them to utilize oxygen from the air and, as the restaurant would have returned the lobster to its tank at the end of the day, the lobster would most likely have been unharmed by the ordeal.
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5-04-2006 @8:58AM Razib Ahmed said... " Given this, it's not all that surprising to hear that they are regarding lobsters with the same feelings most reserve for cats and dogs."
I am happy to hear that in this world there is atleast one country that puts value to the life of lobsters this way. I wish that other countries come forward. Lobsters are so beautiful.
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5-04-2006 @11:01AM Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said... Hooray for big government, huh?
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5-04-2006 @11:08AM Mike said... Alternatively, hooray for requiring people to treat all living things a bit more equally.
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5-04-2006 @11:43AM Mary Cote said... I believe in considering the feelings of all living things. Good for Italy! Now, they just need to do away with boiling the poor things alive. How would you like to go through this?
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5-04-2006 @12:50PM chef ra said... Let us remember...lobsters are food not domesticated pets!!!
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5-04-2006 @1:29PM Finished.Law.School said... This is stupid. It is a good thing that the US government has not begun wasting its time on senseless madness like this.
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5-05-2006 @2:46PM somebody said... "This is stupid. It is a good thing that the US government has not begun wasting its time on senseless madness like this."
I agree.
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