Monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean – IOTW Report

Monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean

CBC:  More than 600 pounds of lucky lobsters were spared the pot Saturday, thanks to compassionate monks on Prince Edward Island.

The monks bought the lobsters from various places around the Island, said Venerable Dan of the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society in Little Sands.

On Saturday, they boarded a fishing boat and released them back into the ocean off the coast of Wood Islands.

“Hopefully, we can find a spot where there are no cages waiting for them,” said Dan.

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20 Comments on Monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean

  1. Catch and release … just so they can catch them again.

    Release them where there are no cages? That’s not where their food is so they will travel back to where the food is – where the cages are.

  2. That’s not where their food is so they will travel back to where the food is – where the cages are.

    Right there covers a lot of social territory, you know?

  3. My educated guess is that these lobsters, after being trapped, transported, stored in tanks and not being fed much if anything, will mighty poor at fending for and feeding themselves back in the wild. This means the whole thing was a meaningless feel-good gesture by the monks, and needlessly depriving us bib-wearers of the joy of dining on a nicely steamed lobster, or two if they’re small, swimming in melted butter. Phooey.

  4. Sean Hannity used to kid his staff member, “Flipper” (a liberal animal rights activist), about freeing the lobster gram gift lobster he gave her into a lake with the rubber bands still on the claws.
    Might as well have just boiled it and eaten it.
    I often wonder about the lobsters in the tank at the lobby of a Red Lobster as I’ve never seen anyone order one.

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