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.
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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.
