Yours truly, Trevor Corson, looking for lobster stuff. Got any? E-mail me
This was where I posted my irregular ramblings, reports, and pictures as the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS from 2004 through 2006. This page is no longer active, and serves simply as an archive. To read new entries starting in 2007, please visit my new Lobster Blog.
To see scenes from Little Cranberry Island, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS takes place, and to read an interview with me, click here. To see photos of some of the people featured in the book, click here, and view the blog entries below. To see more pictures of weird lobster stuff, click here.
According to an article in today's Boston Globe, people in New England aren't taking the ban by Whole Foods on live lobsters very seriously.
Celebrated lobster chef Jasper White (who hosted the publication party for my book, THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS) called the move "pure silliness."
And a customer at James Hook, a lobster retailer on the Boston waterfront, had this reaction: "If they ban the lobsters, what's next? I boil them and I'll eat them until the day I die."
- Last time I was at Kroger on Grand Parkway in Katy TX, they still had the lobster tank with live lobsters. I have no qualms about "boiling them alive". We Texans have been doing same to their smaller relatives, the mud bugs (crayfish to you folks east of us).
- The local Wal-Mart where I work dont sell Lobster anymore. But think they always had trouble with lobster tank. Not sure. . . . But Lobsters were big sellers.
In a press release yesterday, the Whole Foods Market gourmet grocery chain finally announced their big decision over whether or not to continue selling live lobster in their stores.
Last fall the company established a "Lobster Task Force" and stated that if it couldn't find a way to transport and store live lobsters in a way that satisfied stringent new conditions for humane treatment, it would remove live lobsters from all Whole Foods locations.
- I loved your book. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that people care so much about the treatment of a lobster. Have Whole Foods considered the hard working Americans that catch these sea bugs? Do they not care about their livelihood? Or is it easier to care about something we can't relate too . . . it makes me very sad and angry that we care about the things that don't really matter.
