Another Spanish seafood giant is paving the way for large-scale octopus
farming—by testing on baby octopuses.

We stopped this once before, we can do it again.

Tell Grupo Profand: Shut down the baby octopus lab now.

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John,

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.

[ [link removed] ]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. 

[ [link removed] ]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.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Deborah and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Grupo Profand given the go-ahead for experimental octopus hatchery in
Galicia
misPeces. 24 January, 2025

[ [link removed] ]Grupo Profand obtiene luz verde para su criadero de pulpo en A Borna,
Moaña
misPeces. 24 January, 2025 (in Spanish)

 

 

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