Animals Animal Rights 100-Year-Old Lobster Bought by Vegan Gets New Lease on Life By Melissa Breyer Editorial Director Hunter College F.I.T., State University of New York Cornell University Melissa Breyer is Treehugger’s editorial director. She is a sustainability expert and author whose work has been published by the New York Times and National Geographic, among others. our editorial process Melissa Breyer Updated October 11, 2018 Public Domain. Two lobsters who weren't so lucky in a 1915 photo by Walter L. Beasley for National Geographic. Share Twitter Pinterest Email Animals Wildlife Pets Animal Rights Endangered Species I'm always astonished when a massive lobster is caught and people want to ... EAT IT. Not to anthropomorphize or anything, but when a creature gets to be 100 years old or so, it just seems like it would be akin to eating the village elder. How can anyone eat a centenarian? Not to mention the fact that larger lobsters often result in tougher meat. So hats off to the Nova Scotia vegan who forked over $230 to the Alma Lobster Shop in southern New Brunswick in order to liberate "King Louie," a massive 23-pound lobster that was caught be a fisherman St. Martins, N.B. Catherine MacDonald, the shop's co-owner says the 4-foot long crustacean was likely a century old. “It’s beautiful,” MacDonald told The Globe and Mail. “For a lobster to be 23 pounds and to be that large, there was nothing else that was going to be a predator – except man.” “This is a big, big lobster,” added MacDonald. And as of Tuesday, the big, big old guy was back home in the bay. “It went full circle,” she said. “It was released on a vessel out in the Bay of Fundy in front of the village.”