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[ [link removed] ]A beautiful pink octopus swimming in the blue ocean

John,

Octopuses are highly intelligent, complex creatures with personalities,
mood swings, and the ability to learn and remember lessons. They even play
when they’re bored!

Yet Spanish multinational Nueva Pescanova plans to open the first octopus
mega-farm this year. Imagine one million of these special animals stuffed
into crowded tanks, then subjected to slow, stressful deaths in ice cold
water.

The good news is together we can stop this torture farm…for good.

First, our petition went viral, capturing the world’s attention. And now
we’re ready to raise the pressure even more.

If we quickly raise the money to make it happen, together we could launch
groundbreaking investigative research to expose what governments are
behind it, unleash a grassroots lobbying push across Europe, and run a
massive ad campaign demanding decision-makers ban octopus farms forever.

It’s an ambitious plan, and our team is ready to go. Will you help stop
the octopus torture chamber?



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As demand for octopus meat has skyrocketed worldwide, corporations have
been racing to find ways to breed them in captivity to maximize profits.
Nueva Pescanova made a breakthrough…and then its plans to build a
million-octopus farm in the Canary Islands were exposed.

Scientists quickly warned that keeping these brilliant creatures in
captivity would lead to great suffering. Captive octopuses often manage to
escape…and when they can’t, they’ve been known to eat their own arms in
distress.

But despite outcry from around the world, the fact is that right now there
is no EU law to prevent the torture farm from happening. And that’s where
we come in.

Together, we can unleash a massive lobbying effort, targeting the
government of the Canary Islands, the Spanish government, and the European
Commission, to get them to reject this torture farm and implement a ban
for future farms.

We’ll hire investigators to uncover which governments have supported (or
even helped to fund!) Nueva Pescanova’s cruel research and expose it to
the public to embarrass them to act. And we’ll make sure citizens across
the EU know exactly what is happening…and mobilize them to demand their
governments stop it.

Time and time again, our community has come together to demand humanity
over corporate profits. Will you join us and do it again for these
beautiful, complex creatures?



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Massive factory farms are already a big enough problem – both because of
the inhumane treatment of other animals like cows and pigs and their
horrifying impact on our health and environment. The last thing we should
be doing is expanding these practices.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
David, Allison, Danny and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists, BBC. 16 March
2023.

[ [link removed] ]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 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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