Mission: Show Others Why They Shouldn’t Eat Lobsters 🦞

Posted by Calvin on October 17, 2024

National Lobster Day (September 25) should be a time for appreciating lobsters—but instead, some humans “celebrate” it by eating these amazing animals. 😒 Help show everyone that lobsters are interesting individuals who deserve to live in peace!

Lobsters don’t look like us, so it might surprise you to know just how much we have in common with them. For example, they can live to be more than 100 years old, carry their young for nine months, and have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence. They can recognize each other, remember past acquaintances, and form complex social relationships. 🤯

We should respect lobsters and let them pursue their own interests—but humans eat tens of millions of them each year in the U.S. alone. Lobsters, like all animals, can feel pain. But unlike humans, they can’t go into shock—so when they’re dropped into a pot of boiling water, they feel everything until the sec they die. 😱 How screwed-up is it to treat them this way?!

How to Help Lobsters

To prevent lobsters from being torn away from their home and fam and enduring excruciating pain as they’re killed, we need to change the way humans think about these crustaceans. That’s where you come in: Share our National Lobster Day post to show others how cruel eating lobsters is and earn 15 peta2 points in our Rewards Program. Follow these steps:

1. Share this lobster post on IG, and take a screenshot.

2. Submit your screenshot for 15 peta2 points. (Heads-up: You’ll only get points once for taking this action.)

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