How Octopuses Won a Fight Against Factory Farming
The withdrawal followed a five-year campaign that drew more than 100 scientists and 43,000 emails over animal welfare and environmental concerns.
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How Octopuses Won a Fight Against Factory Farming
This story was originally published by Sentient. Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its application to build the octopus farm in the Canary Islands.How did this happen? It followed a coordinated effort by more than a hundred scientists, dozens of conservation and animal advocacy…
The abandonment of the project to create a large octopus farm in Las Palmas, for "commercial and regulatory" reasons, has revived the debate and ethical dilemmas about the breeding of these animals to which many biologists attribute intelligence and a mindPescanova withdraws its request to create an octopus farm in the Port of Las Palmas In 2022, Nueva Pescanova, Spain's largest fishing company, announced an investment of 65 million euros in the…
The experimental breeding of octopus opens up doubts about its industrial production. The plan to breed these octopods in captivity in Galicia stumbles on its own numbers. A pilot project that was carried out in Moaña aimed to lay the foundations for industrial production, but official documentation reveals such scandalous and unprofitable mortality. The figures are devastating for the viability of the project. Up to eight out of ten larvae die …
The abandonment of the project to create a large octopus farm in Las Palmas, Spain, for "commercial and regulatory" reasons, revived the debate and ethical dilemmas about the breeding of these animals to which many biologists attribute intelligence and a mind In 2022, Nueva Pescanova, Spain's largest fishing company, announced an investment of 65 million euros in the world's first industrial octopus farm and processing plant, located near the po…
World’s First Industrial Octopus Farm Collapses, but the Ethical Debate Lives On
A plan to build the world’s first industrial-scale octopus farm has been abandoned, but not before reigniting a fierce debate about whether these famously intelligent creatures should be farmed at all. Nueva Pescanova, Spain’s largest fisheries company, unveiled the ambitious project in 2022, pledging €65m (£56m) to build a farming and processing facility near Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The company predicted it would be churning out 3,000…
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