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 putting them in icy water, which causes a slow, stressful death.

The company knows octopuses are highly intelligent and feel pleasure, pain, joy and fear, but this is their way of turning a huge #profit. Now they’re being slammed by #scientists and the #media – and if enough of us add to the pressure right now we can stop them.

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https://actions.eko.org/a/stop-the-world-s-first-octopus-farm?source=campaigns

Seafood giant Nueva Pescanova plans to dump a million live octopuses a year into icy tanks, where they'll slowly and painfully freeze to death. Then sell them to supermarkets.

Our petition to stop this cruelty has ignited a firestorm on social media. It's gotten over half a million signatures, and a growing number of EU leaders are voicing their opposition. Nueva Pescanova is starting to feel the heat

- Eko

#BanOctopusFarming #NuevaPescanova 🐙 🌊

More information:

A Trailblazing Ban On #OctopusFarming Becomes Law In Washington State

It's official: Octopus farming is banned in #Washington state.

https://www.iflscience.com/a-trail-blazing-ban-on-octopus-farming-becomes-law-in-washington-state-73423

#California is set to consider banning the "controversial and cruel" practice of octopus farming.

Assemblymember Steve Bennett introduced AB 3162 the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (#OCTO) Act earlier this week.

https://www.newsweek.com/california-consider-banning-octopus-farming-1872434

Proposed #CanaryIslands octopus farm would cause animal suffering, say experts

Animal welfare organisations are urging the islands’ government to block the development.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/canary-islands-ngos-government-zac-goldsmith-spanish-b2424605.html

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm #scientists

A plan to build the world's first #octopus farm has raised deep concerns among scientists over the welfare of the famously intelligent creatures.

The farm in Spain's #CanaryIslands would raise about a million octopuses annually for food, according to confidential documents seen by the #BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64814781