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Bryan J. Maloney
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Michel Boucher > nattered on
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>> TMO wrote:
>>>...and then there were the servants of 18th century littoral New
>>>England on several occasions revolting against the practice of
>>>being fed on lobster, then the cheapest of seafood products.
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>> I've read this for years in secondary sources. Anyone ever found a
>> primary source that said this?
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> The farmers of Prince Edward Island, well-known for its lobsters,
> never ate them, but picked up beached ones and ground them into the
> soil as fertilizer. Tourism made lobsters an industry commodity.
And how often did they riot over being required to eat them?
> There's a related passage in the film Mystic Pizza where the daughter
And this was a documentary, right?
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