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To Spanish and European leaders, and governments everywhere:

We’re calling on you to reject the plan to build industrial octopus farms in Spain and ban octopus farming in the EU and around the world, including its import and financing. Octopuses are intelligent, sentient and fascinating animals. Let’s avoid creating more animal suffering for unsustainable and short-term human profit.
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Stop the octopus torture!
Octopuses are extraordinary. They can open jars, use tools, recognise faces — and even feel pain, joy, and fear.

Yet right now, a giant fishing company is quietly setting up an octopus hatchery in Galicia, Spain. They claim it’s “ecological research”. But don’t be fooled: these studies often pave the way for mass commercial farming – like the octopus farm that sparked global outrage in 2023.

And if they succeed, it could lead to millions of octopuses locked in tanks and subjected to horrific suffering in the name of profit.

But we can stop this torture once and for all! Add your name now and Avaaz will expose this project and demand Spanish authorities and the EU ban octopus farming before it begins!
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