{"id":22437,"date":"2022-11-30T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22437"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:54:23","slug":"lobsteur-provocateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lobsteur-provocateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobsteur Provocateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f0f0f0&amp;d=dec22_flipbook_11.18-reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=22&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Right now, everybody\u2019s seeing red.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Colin S. Sargent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aine lobster has become a political football in trade wars with<\/span><b> China<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, COVID politics, and saving the right whale. We can\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expect it to continue to be targeted as an international symbol of luxury consumption in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOn November 11, 2019, at 4:04 a.m., <\/span><strong>China Eastern Airlines<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flight MU298 landed at <\/span><strong>Shanghai Pudong International Airport<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A batch of U.S. cold chain cargo on board was unloaded from the cabin of the North Cargo Terminal of the airport and transported to the international cargo entry area for customs clearance. Among them were 55 boxes of chilled American [Maine] lobsters totaling 823.4 kilograms&#8230;From July to the end of October 2019, the <\/span><strong>Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, local media, and residents\u2019 personal social accounts repeatedly reported \u2018e-cigarette pneumonia,\u2019 which is the \u2018suspected new coronavirus pneumonia\u2019 case that has been hidden in the United States&#8230;I am afraid it is this batch of American lobsters that opened the Pandora&#8217;s box of the epidemic in the <\/span><strong>South China<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seafood market.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lobster-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, everybody\u2019s seeing red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1269],"class_list":["post-22437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22528,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions\/22528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}