18/11/2024
🐙 PETITION | A company in Spain has a plan to torture a million octopuses per year – by raising them in crowded tanks and then killing them by plunging them in ice water, which causes a slow, agonizing death.
The company - a seafood giant called Nueva Pescanova - knows octopuses are highly intelligent and feel pleasure, pain, joy and fear, but this is its way of turning a huge profit. Now octopus farming is being slammed by scientists, the media, activists, and a growing number of legislators around the world. So if enough of us add to the pressure right now, we can stop it.
Sign this petition (https://action.eko.org/a/stop-the-world-s-first-octopus-farm-fba21) to tell the Spanish government that it should work to deny Nueva Pescanova the legal permits it needs to build the world's first octopus torture farm, and that it should pass legislation to prohibit octopus farming. We still need less than 81.000 signs to reach the goal of 750.000 signs!
Octopuses have until now been caught by fishers in the wild, and have never been bred in captivity for commercial farms. They are solitary animals that need to move freely, and commercial farming would for the first time cram them together and cause many of them to die from the stress, before painfully killing any survivors in freezing temperatures.
Environmental scientists have concluded that it's not possible to humanely raise octopuses in captivity at a commercial scale, as this would lead to cannibalism in animals that have effectively been driven mad.
🎞️ Docu recommendation: My Octopus Teacher on Netflix ❤️
Together we can stop octopus farming. Sign the petition now! Link: https://action.eko.org/a/stop-the-world-s-first-octopus-farm-fba21
(Description/text by the author of the petition)