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 🐙 🌊

OPPOSITION CONTINUES FOR CANARY ISLANDS OCTOPUS FARM

Campaigners are calling for seafood company #NuevaPescanova to scrap plans to build Spain's first octopus farm as new documents reveal that it had failed to consider the significant threats the farm would pose to #wildlife, the #environment and #PublicHealth, in addition to #AnimalCruelty concerns.

https://thefishsite.com/articles/opposition-continues-for-canary-islands-octopus-farm

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Coming from the animal rights NGOs #CompassionInWorldFarming, #EurogroupForAnimals and #AnimaNaturalis, the calls urge the seafood company to immediately halt the progression of their plans for the #CanaryIslands octopus farm under the claims that the plans directly contradict the company’s own corporate sustainability claims.

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#BanOctopusFarming #SaveOurSeas #SoSSaturdays 🐙 🌊

Legislation was introduced by Senators #Whitehouse and #Murkowski that would ban commercial #OctopusFarming in the United States!

This bi-partisan bill would also ban imports of farmed #octopuses, ensuring the US is not complicit in cruel octopus factory farming. 🐙 🌊