They're Eating Each Other Alive...
- 600milliondogs.org
- Jul 3
- 2 min read
Right now in Mexico, octopuses are being forced into tanks where more than half die before they ever reach slaughter.
Inside octopus farms, they are confined together with no way to escape one another.
Researchers report that the stress and aggression inside these tanks is so severe that octopuses attack each other.
Arms are torn off.
Fresh wounds are left untreated.
Some animals are killed and partially eaten by other octopuses trapped in the same enclosure.
More than half of the octopuses at Mexico's only operating octopus farm have died before reaching slaughter.
Researchers found that nearly one-third of those deaths resulted from octopuses attacking and eating others confined in the same tank.
Even as octopuses suffer and die, researchers continue developing methods to expand octopus farming.
If they succeed, many more farms could be built.
Many more octopuses could be injured, lose their tentacles, or die long before they are slaughtered.
A ban would stop the expansion of an industry already linked to extreme suffering.
Mexico has an opportunity to stop this industry before it spreads.
Senator Maki Esther Ortiz Domínguez introduced legislation that would ban octopus farming across Mexico.
She also serves as president of the Senate Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change and is in a position to help advance the legislation through the Senate.
Passing the bill would stop more octopuses from being confined in farming tanks where attacks, severe injuries, and deaths have already been documented.
Please sign today and urge Senator Maki to do everything in her power to advance the octopus farming ban and help secure its passage through the Mexican Senate.
Thank you for standing with animals!
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