Eating it at that age would be a waste. The flesh would be too tough. It was right to free it and let it live, but PETA's behavior is just plain stupid.

The animals, mostly rescued injured and unable to exist in the wild, could not be placed in other zoo facilities and thus had to be destroyed.

PETA sucks.

I could care less about this lobster myself. Younger ones are tastier, as was already mentioned. What gets my goat about this whole thing is not that the lobster was set free, but that PETA bullied the restaurant into doing it.

I hate PETA. Not only are they terrorists, but they are hypocrites on top of everything else. Remember folks, these are the same idiots that put down adoptable animals and can't even dispose of them properly.

I think it is much more honest to eat what you just saw living - sticking your head in the sand about life and death doesn't help anyone but yourself.

For instance, I have more respect for someone who hunts and kills and eats their own meat, even though I wouldn't want to do it (but would if I had to), than someone who buys a package in a supermarket (like me).

Let's face it - there's not a nice way to die, and the earth is an imperfect place. God put animals here for us to eat.

As for worrying about how they are killed, far worse goes on in slaughterhouses than in a seafood restaurant with a lobster tank. This is why I try to buy organic/free range meat, by companies committed to humane slaughter.

If you don't like the idea of them being steamed or boiled, tell them you want them broiled; they dispatch them with a quick knife in the thorax.

People need to grow up a little.

And, Sharon MacEahern?

PETA is a den of childish, maladjusted, wrong-headed, misanthropic lunatics.

And worst of all, they are hypocrites of the highest order:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

In this article, we're reminded of a news story several years ago when a woman jogging in southern California was killed by a mountain lion. The fund for the slain cougar's orphaned pups received more donations than the fund for the woman's orphaned children. Read more at: http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/11/controversial-caged-chicken-ban-passe d-by-landslide-in-california.html

Then there's the new Switzerland animal rights law that just took effect? The Swiss can no longer flush live goldfish down the toilet. They must be properly euthanized -- the fish, not the Swiss. For this story go to:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/11/animal-rights-in-switzerland-even-for -goldfish.html#more

I know other places do this sort of thing all the time.

I used to go to Deer Island in New Brunswick, Canada, with my parents for vacation all the time. There is a restaurant called the 45 Parallel Restaurant and Motel, and every year they put on display the largest lobster caught in the tank, name him Herman the ***, and then release him at the end of the season.

People amaze me sometimes.