"Peter" the 11 pound 70+ year-old lobster awaits his fate.

This 70+ year-old 11 pound lobster was priced at $275 on the menu of Oceana, an upscale restaurant located at Rockefeller Center in NYC. When the press publicized the offering, the restaurant was inundated with calls from patrons and the public demanding they spare the life of the crustacean.Said one patron:

“It doesn’t bother me,” the Greenwich Village lawyer said of the possibility a senior-citizen lobster could wind up on a plate. “What does it matter if it’s 1, 3 or 70 years old? If you’re going to eat it, you’re going to eat it.”

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