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Urge Your Senators to Cosponsor S.1947 to Stop Cruel Octopus Farming

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A lifesaving piece of bipartisan legislation, the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act (S. 1947), has been reintroduced. It would ban commercial octopus farming in the U.S. and prohibit the import of live or dead farmed octopuses (or their meat or derivatives) from foreign countries.

A company in Spain has received approval to build the world’s first intensive octopus farm, increasing the urgency of getting this bill passed. Please urge your senator to cosponsor this important legislation.

Octopuses can feel joy and excitement as well as pain and fear. These intelligent, sensitive individuals have been known to use seashells for protection, steal food from traps set by fishers, decorate their ocean homes, and even escape from aquarium tanks. Keeping them on farms would lead to unnatural aggression, cannibalism, injury, and death as they fight and struggle to escape.

At the end of their miserable lives, the octopuses would be slaughtered, experiencing horrific terror and pain as their brains are cut into or their heads are clubbed in.

Please urge your senators to cosponsor the powerful OCTOPUS Act!

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