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<P><STRONG>Octopuses are highly intelligent, complex creatures with
personalities,</STRONG> mood swings, and the ability to learn and
remember lessons. They even play when they’re bored!</P>
<P>Yet Spanish multinational <STRONG>Nueva Pescanova plans to open
the first octopus mega-farm this year.</STRONG> Imagine one million
of these special animals stuffed into crowded tanks, then subjected
to slow, stressful deaths in ice cold water.</P>
<P>The good news is <STRONG>together we can stop this torture
farm…for good.</STRONG></P>
<P>First, our petition went viral, capturing the world’s attention.
And now we’re ready to raise the pressure even more.</P>
<P>If we quickly raise the money to make it happen, together we
could <STRONG>launch groundbreaking investigative research to expose
what governments are behind it, unleash a grassroots lobbying push
across Europe, and run a massive ad campaign</STRONG> demanding
decision-makers ban octopus farms forever.</P>
<P>It’s an ambitious plan, and our team is ready to go. <STRONG>Will
you help stop the octopus torture chamber?</STRONG></P>
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<P>As demand for octopus meat has skyrocketed worldwide,
<STRONG>corporations have been racing to find ways to breed them
in</STRONG> <STRONG>captivity</STRONG> to maximize profits. Nueva
Pescanova made a breakthrough…and then its plans to build a
million-octopus farm in the Canary Islands were exposed.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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 <STRONG>that’s where we come in.</STRONG></P>
<P>Together, <STRONG>we can unleash a massive lobbying
effort</STRONG>, 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.</P>
<P>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
<STRONG>we’ll make sure citizens across the EU know exactly what is
happening…and mobilize them to demand their governments stop
it</STRONG>.</P>
<P>Time and time again, our community has come together to demand
humanity over corporate profits. <STRONG>Will you join us and do it
again for these beautiful, complex creatures?</STRONG></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><STRONG>Massive factory farms are
already a big enough problem</STRONG> – 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
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<P>Thanks for all that you do, <BR>David, Allison, Danny and the Ekō
team</P>
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<P>More information:</P>
<P><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/659599?t=13&akid=145872%2E23281291%2EWJ--J3">World's
first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists</A>, BBC. 16 March
2023.</P>
<P><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/657792?t=14&akid=145872%2E23281291%2EWJ--J3">A
Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice
slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm</A>, Business Insider. 16
March 2023. </P>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 28, 2025 12:03 PM</DIV>
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