Alexey,
A new factory farming nightmare is
unfolding—seafood giant Grupo Profand just got the green
light to experiment on baby octopuses in Spain.
Their goal? Cracking the code on captive
breeding to pave the way for the world’s first octopus
farm. We’ve stopped this type of torture before, and we
can do it again.
For years, we’ve been fighting to stop
Nueva Pescanova’s plan to open an octopus farm in
the Canary Islands—and it’s working. Thanks to relentless public
pressure, their plans have stalled, and the backlash has
been a PR disaster. What was meant to be a
groundbreaking project is now stuck in limbo, proving that
our movement can stop this industry in its tracks.
Now, Grupo Profand is trying to pick up where they left off.
If we don’t act now, they’ll use this lab to build the blueprint for
mass-producing octopuses in cruel, unnatural
conditions. If enough of us raise a global outcry, we
can shut this down before it begins, just like we did with Nueva
Pescanova.
Grupo Profand: Shut down the baby octopus lab
This new lab will experiment on baby octopuses by
manipulating their larval
development, a critical hurdle that
has prevented octopus farming from scaling up. This is how factory
farming starts. First, they figure out how to breed animals in
captivity, then they scale up to mass production, locking
intelligent beings into a life of suffering for profit.
Grupo Profand claims this is about “sustainability”—that farming
octopuses will ease pressure on wild populations. But
factory farming is never the answer, and octopuses are
sentient creatures who use tools, solve puzzles,
and even dream.
Let’s make one thing clear: Grupo Profand isn’t running this lab
for conservation or science; they’re engineering a supply chain.
If we don’t stop it now, octopuses will become the next
victims of industrial farming.
Grupo Profand: Shut down the baby octopus lab
This is the moment our movement was made for—and we know
we can win because we’ve done it before. When California
passed a landmark law banning octopus farming, our global outcry
helped make it happen. And when hundreds of thousands of us spoke
out against Nueva Pescanova’s plans, we pushed their project into
total deadlock.
Now, it’s time to do it again, before Grupo Profand turns
factory-farmed octopuses into reality.
