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Food retailers begin pulling lobster after 'red list' warning from environmentalist group

Seafood Watch adds lobster to their list of seafood to avoid due to the industry's impact on whales

Some retailers are taking lobster off the menu after an assessment from an influential conservation group that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided.

The organization, based at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a report that the fishing industry is a danger to North Atlantic right whales because "current management measures do not go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the species."

Thousands of businesses use Seafood Watch's recommendations to inform seafood buying decisions, and many have pledged to avoid any items that appear on the red list. A spokesperson for Blue Apron, the New York meal kit retailer, said the company stopped offering a seasonal lobster box prior to the report, and all of the seafood it is currently using follows Seafood Watch's guidelines. HelloFresh, the Germany-based meal kit company that is the largest such company operating in the U.S., also pledged shortly after the announcement to stop selling lobster.

If businesses and citizens don’t stand out to these kooks’ bullying there will be no end to it, no stopping until everything that is produced, manufactured, or consumed will be subject to the control and approval of the new masters of the proletariat. Cave in, and pull lobsters? How long before you’re allowed to sell any fish at all, dummie? Are you selling meat? Hell, they’re already moving to ban advertising meat in Harlem. Harlem!

Okay, that’s Haarlem, Netherlands, but it’s a short hop from the land of dykes to the U.S. mainland — hell, my own ancestors did it, back before boats were banned. But an advertising ban is just the beginning:

The motion was made by the GroenLinks, a green political party, and would go into effect in 2024 in Haarlem, the BBC reported. The meat sector in The Netherlands has opposed the move, saying it stifles free speech. 

"Meat is very harmful to the environment. We cannot tell people that there is a climate crisis and encourage them to buy products that are part of it," Ziggy Klazes, a member of GroenLinks who drafted the motion, told the Trouw newspaper.

The move would make Haarlem, just a few miles from Amsterdam, the first city in the world to ban most meat ads. It could include chicken sold in supermarkets and fast food. 

Here’s an ad Audi ran during the 2010 Super Bowl. It was meant to be humorous, but it’s coming true. And the product that shows up at the end of the ad? The car that was supposed to be the point of the whole endeavor? Banned years ago.