John,

Seafood giant Grupo Profand has a sick plan to turn octopuses into the next victims of full-blown factory farming – and we need your help to shut it down, before it even begins.

The company is planning to open a gruesome baby octopus lab, where it can experiment on these intelligent and emotional creatures, and figure out how to farm them on an industrial scale. If it succeeds, countless octopuses face a future of unbearable pain before being slaughtered for profit.

But it’s still in the early stages, and if we move quickly we can stop this octopus torture lab before it opens.

With all of us chipping in, we can build up our campaign fast and get to work cutting off the funding pipeline for this octopus torture lab, mobilizing public pressure on key decision-makers to push the EU to expand its animal welfare laws to protect octopuses and defend our natural world from corporate exploitation.

Can you chip in to shut down this octopus torture lab?

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Octopuses are so intelligent they can solve puzzles, use tools, and even recognise humans! Confining these naturally curious creatures to a life of suffering in tiny tanks is beyond cruel.

But that’s exactly what Grupo Profand wants to do through manipulating the larval development of baby octopuses and experimenting on them so it can figure out how to breed these amazing creatures in captivity. Unbelievably, the seafood giant claims this sick experimentation is about “innovation” and “sustainability”—that farming octopuses will ease pressure on wild populations. It should be obvious but finding new, cruel ways to inflict misery on countless intelligent creatures is never the answer.

We know we can bring this plan to a grinding halt before it ever gets off the ground — because we’ve done it before! Our campaigning helped push California to pass a landmark law banning octopus farming. And when hundreds of thousands of us challenged Nueva Pescanova’s plans to open the world’s first octopus farm, we stopped it.

Now, it’s time to do it again.

Over 50,000 people around the world have already signed the petition demanding Grupo Profand shut down this octopus torture lab. If all of us chip in just a little, we could supercharge this global campaign, amping up the pressure on decision makers with tactics like ads, research and media noise.

Can you chip in to shut down this octopus torture lab?

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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the planet.

Thanks to years of campaigning and public pressure, we forced Nueva Pescanova to stall its plans of opening the world’s first octopus farm. Now, Grupo Profand thinks it can quietly open its testing lab without any backlash – we’re about to prove it wrong.