{"id":2954,"date":"2006-07-31T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/07\/31\/you-can-take-the-lobster-out-of-the-po"},"modified":"2006-07-31T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T17:29:25","slug":"you-can-take-the-lobster-out-of-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/07\/31\/you-can-take-the-lobster-out-of-the-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Take The Lobster Out of the Pot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8701'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/lobstatag.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" align=\"left\">At restaurants throughout the world, menus feature &#8220;Maine lobster,&quot; that<br \/>\n        sweet, succulent stuff that makes grown people don bibs and make a delicious<br \/>\n        mess. Like Idaho potatoes, Vermont maple syrup, and Florida oranges,<br \/>\n        Maine lobster has become a name brand. The state produces 75 percent<br \/>\n        of the lobster catch in the United States, and it brings a premium price,<br \/>\n        both at the docks and on the table.<\/p>\n<p>But are you really getting Maine lobster, or is it what some Mainers call an<br \/>\n&#8220;impostor lobster,&quot; from Canada or elsewhere? Under a new program that<br \/>\nkicks off today in Portland, lobster dealers will be encouraged to tag the catch,<br \/>\nidentifying it as being caught in Maine waters. The plastic tags will hang from<br \/>\nthe claw knuckles and state simply: &#8220;Certified Maine Lobster.&quot; On the front<br \/>\nwill be a picture of a lobster and a lighthouse; on the back, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobsterfrommaine.com\/\">lobsterfrommaine.com<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>from<br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/maine\/articles\/2006\/07\/31\/sure_its_a_maine_lobster_check_for_an_id\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobsterfrommaine.com\/\">www.lobsterfrommaine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Those tags look waayyy too easy to counterfeit. Why, a Canadian schoolboy<br \/>\n        with a Dell could produce a decent copy in 10 minutes. They should go<br \/>\n        directly to embedded, encrypted microchips. Anybody wanna start a company to tag lobstas?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At restaurants throughout the world, menus feature &#8220;Maine lobster,&quot; that sweet, succulent stuff that makes grown people don bibs and make a delicious mess. Like Idaho potatoes, Vermont maple syrup, and Florida oranges, Maine lobster has become a name brand. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/07\/31\/you-can-take-the-lobster-out-of-the-pot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}