Buddhist Monks Save Hundreds of Lobsters and Return Them to the Ocean

[MoonRiver]

Hundreds of lobsters avoided being boiled alive thanks to a group of Buddhist monks from Prince Edward Island.

The monks, who are from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society, bought the lobsters – 600 pounds worth of them – solely with the intention of returning them to their rightful home in the ocean.

Hundreds of lobsters have been purchased and will soon be released back into the ocean #PEI @GEBIS_Canada pic.twitter.com/zhb9SXGgdq

— Jessica Doria-Brown (@JDoriaBrownCBC) July 9, 2016

http://www.care2.com/causes/buddhist-monks-save-hundreds-of-lobsters-and-return-them-to-the-ocean.html

HOORAY for compassion!

[dhill926]

1. good for them...

that boiling alive thing is simply barbaric.

[MoonRiver]

2. Long before I became a vegetarian I refused to eat lobster, because of that horror.

[Igel]

4. Meh.

I grew up eating crab on the Chesapeake Bay. You get a basket of crabs. Some die en route. The rest get pitched into a pot with cold water and a wooden spacer on the bottom to keep the crabs out of the water. Douse everything with Old Bay and boil the water to steam the crabs.

Sort of cruel, and definitely spooky hearing the crabs scrape against the inside of the pot, their scraping sounds going from normal to insistent to weaker and less frequent until the pot was silent, so every year I'd rescue a crab or two and "return" it to the water, my parent's pool. Now, the crab's do not so bad with freshwater--they're used to brackish water, but go for a while in fresh. But the chlorine, stress, and lack of food ... Really, steaming was at least faster.

[MoonRiver]

5. My husband was raised in Boston and saw his mother boil many lobsters alive.

He's now as much of an animal rights advocate as I. How you were raised need not completely determine your character.

[Igel]

3. Too bad they didn't just donate the money directly to the lobstermen.

They could have had a day off, saved money on gas, and the middlemen wouldn't have gotten a cut.

Then again, it's not a satisfying thing, having a picture of a group of people standing by a docked boat, "Here we are, saving the lives of hundreds of lobsters. That boat's docked so lobsters didn't die."

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. k&r

[spanone]

7. K&R...