Craig the Lobster is Set Free

Score one for them PETA activists. Maybe their naked protests are having some effect after all.

A JAPANESE restaurant in New York took pity on a 140-year-old lobster called Craig and said it would not end its days boiled in a pot but instead swim free in the Atlantic Ocean.

Craig has been exhibited to customers in an aquarium but its owners at Halu Japanese Restaurant & Grill in Brooklyn announced they would have the old 10kg crustacean shipped to Maine, where it is to be released into the sea.

Local law there forbids taking lobsters above a certain size.

“Kudos to Halu for allowing Craig to live out the rest of his days in his native habitat,” Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animals rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said.

PETA has organised a campaign to liberate restaurant lobsters and avoid them being thrown alive into boiling water.

According to invertebrate zoologist Jaren Horsley, lobsters have a “sophisticated nervous system” and feel “a great deal of pain” when cut or cooked alive. [news.com]

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