Meet George the 140 year old lobster who spent much of his life living in a tank at a Manhattan Eatery. However, all that changed yesterday when the hefty 20 pound sea creature was set free off the coast of Maine.

George has a lot to be thankful for thanks to PETA and the resturaunt manager, Keith Valenti who agreed to free him. Valenti told sources that it “seemed like the thing to do.” Peta President Ingrid E Newkirk applauded the restaurant for their decision.

According to Dr. Jaren G. Horsley, an invertebrate zoologist, “lobsters have a “sophisticated nervous system” and feel “a great deal of pain” when cut or cooked alive.

And because lobsters do not enter a state of shock when they are hurt, they feel every moment of their slow, painful deaths when cooked in a pot of boiling water.”

Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., have found that lobsters use complicated signals to establish social relationships and take long-distance seasonal journeys, often traveling more than 100 miles in a year.

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