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John, California lawmakers just passed a bill that would ban
octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopus meat!

Our campaign is working – now we need to keep up the pressure on more
governments to ban octopus torture chambers for good. Can you chip in to
help?



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[ [link removed] ]Close up of an octopus floating in the sea.

 

John,

Octopuses are highly intelligent, complex creatures with unique
personalities – they even play together!

Yet a Spanish seafood giant is racing to open the first ever octopus
mega-farm, where one million of these special animals will be stuffed into
crowded tanks, then subjected to slow, stressful deaths.

Our community sprang into action earlier this year to stop this torture
farm – and now a precedent-setting bill in California would ban both
octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopus from anywhere.

When California changes laws, the rest of the US (and world!) often follow
– like when they acted to clean up the state's smoggy air and raised air
quality standards everywhere.

So this is our chance to stop octopus torture farms for good. If enough of
us chip in, we can overwhelm decision-makers with a lobbying push from
every corner of the planet. And once we win, we’ll do it again and again
across the rest of the world.

We have just weeks before the final vote to make a difference – are you
in?



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To meet the growing demand for octopus meat, corporations have been racing
to find ways to breed octopus in captivity. Seafood mega-company 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 and
die in distress.

But despite outcry from around the world, the fact is that right now laws
just don’t exist to prevent this torture farm from happening. And that’s
where we come in. 

Thanks to massive pressure, the  California State Assembly just passed
this important bill. Now we need to make sure it doesn’t get killed behind
closed doors, and instead makes it to the Senate floor for a final vote
before the Governor can sign it into law. And we’re going to make sure it
passes.

Together we’ll unleash a lobbying push across Europe and everywhere
octopus torture farms are planned, until there’s NO market for octopus
killed in horrific captivity…anywhere.

Our team is ready to go – we just need the funds to make this massive.
Will you help stop these octopus torture chambers? 



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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 to other brilliant, beautiful
creatures. 



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



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]California is poised to ban octopus farming Los Angeles Times, 11
September 2024

[ [link removed] ]A Trailblazing Ban On Octopus Farming Becomes Law In Washington
State. IFL Science, 19 March 2024

[ [link removed] ]A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart
for that. NPR 07 February 2024

[ [link removed] ]Proposed Canary Islands octopus farm would cause animal suffering, say
experts. The Independent, 05 October 2023

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

 

Anything extra raised will power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting
for people and the planet.

 

 

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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