Octopuses

Highly intelligent animals, needless suffering   [Close-up photo of an octopus, with limbs upturned and curling like spirals]( URGENT: We need to shut down the largest octopus farm ever before it's too late. We're about to protest in the streets of Madrid, but we need more signatures to save the octopuses. Add your name to SAVE THE OCTOPUSES from torture farms: [ Sign the petitionÂ]( {NAME}, Octopuses are solitary animals that need to move freely. Living in captivity in an extremely small space with millions of other animals is not species-appropriate and leads to a slow and agonising death. The increasing demand for octopus meat is promoting the cruel breeding of this highly intelligent animal. If octopus farms are allowed to proliferate, millions of these sensitive creatures will be crammed into tiny aquariums until they die miserably from stress or are killed, painfully, by icy water. But there's hope: we just helped get the Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) ACT to pass in the California Legislature! Now we can take this ban to the whole world, starting with Spain where a GIGANTIC farm is being built. We don't have much time, add your name now: [Sign the petition to save the octopuses from industrial farming.]( If we join our names together and sign this petition, we can build on our win in California, and stop Spain from becoming the first country in the world to build a commercial octopus farm. On October 5, we will stage a demonstration in front of the Spanish Congress in Madrid, and demand that the Spanish government deny Nueva Pescanova permits to build its cruel octopus farm. We will also press the Spanish government to pass legislation to prohibit octopus farming more broadly. We’ll be on the street, and conducting a press conference, with a strong coalition of groups working to protect public health and to end animal cruelty. Let's make this huge -- sign and share our petition to stop octopus farming! We’ve made strides in California, and we can do it in Spain. We’re already over half a million strong. Let’s flex our collective power for good. [Tell the Spanish government and Nueva Pescanova: No octopus torture farm!]( [ Sign the petitionÂ]( Thanks for all that you do, Leili, Eoin and the team at Ekō More information: [California is poised to ban octopus farming]( Los Angeles Times 11 September 2024 [World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists]( BBC 16 March 2023 [A Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm]( Business Insider 16 March 2023     --------------------------------------------------------------- Ekō is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we’re not afraid to stand up to them when they don’t. Please help keep Ekō strong by chipping in $3 [Chip in $3]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. | [Unsubscribe](   --------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Us On Social Media [Facebok]( [Instagram]( [Youtube](Eko.Movement) [Twitter]( [TikTok](eko.movement) [Telegram](