{"id":12393,"date":"2015-02-05T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=12393"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:32:12","slug":"displaying-live-lobster-on-ice-controversial-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=12393","title":{"rendered":"Displaying live lobster on ice &#8211; controversial issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">I should admit that when I filmed this short video, I was thinking as a consumer who sees the best possible quality and freshness of a lobster when bought alive. In fact, most lobster consumers do not buy lobsters that are not alive and kicking. There are locations where the sale of a dead lobster to be eaten is illegal (e.g. Massachusetts). In regard to fish mongers, they promote their live lobsters and in return they get premium prices.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I ran a quick search on displaying live lobsters on ice, I found considerable views which are in opposition to such practice.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2006, an Italian restaurant in Vicenza, Italy was fined the equivalent of $855 for displaying live lobster on ice. The charge was cruelty to animals, since the display was found a form of abuse because the crustaceans suffer from slow death of suffocation.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under pressure from animal rights animal worshippers, one of the leading companies in natural and organic food have stopped selling live lobsters.<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3QYZiEXspg8\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should admit that when I filmed this short video, I was thinking as a consumer who sees the best possible quality and freshness of a lobster when bought alive. In fact, most lobster consumers do not buy lobsters that are not alive and kicking. There are locations where the sale of a dead lobster &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=12393\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5233,291,294],"tags":[2063,5704,5707,5703,5705,2206,5706],"class_list":["post-12393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-fish-markets-and-displays","category-gallery-2","category-videos","tag-california-spiny-lobster","tag-consumer-and-fish-mongers-views","tag-cruelty-to-animals","tag-displaying-live-lobster-on-ice","tag-freshness-and-quality-of-displayed-lobsters","tag-lobster","tag-views-of-animal-rights-groups","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-3dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12395,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions\/12395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}