Octopus farming is ‘unethical and a threat to the food chain’

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Yet another octopus ability I didn't know about before... apparently some octopus experts say they don't have 8 legs, just two legs and six arms, thus:

 

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How beautiful. Mothership | olivierleger

"Behold! An immense polymorphic creature throws out her colours into deep space. She is a mothership, teeming with a multitude of lives. A living breathing biome, crackling and spitting with cosmic energy, she bears the weight of a thousand worlds. She rears her head slowly and inexorably due to a bothersome thought. She is aware that things are changing, that the place and the life forms that she loves and cares for are becoming conspicuously inconspicuous. She starts. And in fear she bellows a tremendous call that bestows an omen into the world. ‘Be warned, you may change my colours such that they are not to your liking.’"

 

[ItStillWontWork]

I say if an Octopus wants to start farming then let him.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Petition against Octopus torture farms in Spain. Might as well sign:

Octopus massacre

They're building the world’s first octopus farm. Here's how we can stop them:

secure.avaaz.org

 

[editor]

You've got to be a right cunt to eat the product of an octopus farm.

 

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Not even in Tesco's

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Johnny Vodka]

‘A symbol of what humans shouldn’t be doing’: the new world of octopus farming

Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced – just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically?

www.theguardian.com

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

And in the news 1. ‘It was giving me a hug’: video captures rare giant octopus encounter

Hug? Wasn't it trying to eat her?!?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Research into octopus dreams

Octopuses changing skin pattern while asleep may show they dream, research shows

Scientists say the cephalopods have stages similar to REM sleep seen in vertebrates including humans

www.theguardian.com

 

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They should be natured, loved, appreciated and cuddled. Meet Otto

 

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I really can't comment

 

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Dreaming in colour

 

[Serge Forward]

Dreaming in colour

One thing about all that changing colour to blend in with their background as camouflage... the octopus is colour blind and only sees in monochrome, so it's the skin itself that senses the backround colour

 

[trabuquera]

Further evidence that octopus know perfectly well what they're doing (and that they don't need or want to be farmed):

"Octopus garden" off Monterrey is a nursery for thousands

 

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Rare 'Dumbo' octopus filmed in deep sea

An octopus with ear-like fins resembling the Disney character was filmed at a depth of more than 1,000 metres.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Company faces backlash over ‘cruel’ plans to farm and slaughter millions of octopuses: ‘It … should not be allowed’

"To kill them with ice would be a slow death."

www.yahoo.com

 

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What a moving film

My Octopus Teacher - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

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[Jeff Robinson]

Good news, the state of California is set to ban octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopuses or octopus meat.

Victory! California Set to Ban Octopus Farming

California is set to become the second state to ban octopus farming and the first to ban the sale of farmed octopus meat.

www.ciwf.com

 

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The more we learn about them the more intelligent they appear to be

Octopus and fish join forces to hunt together

Teamwork makes the dream work, even across species divides.

www.popsci.com

 

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From that link, an octopus punching a fish!