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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.
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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.
Thanks for all that you do,
Miriam, Yasmin and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Grupo Profand given the go-ahead for experimental octopus hatchery in
Galicia Mis Peces 24 January 2025
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[ [link removed] ]Octopuses keep surprising us – here are eight examples how Natural
History Museum
Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
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