A planned octopus farm is facing opposition. Here’s why

Critics offer many arguments against raising octopuses for food, including possible releases of waste, antibiotics or pathogens from aquaculture facilities. But as a psychologist, I see intelligence as the most intriguing part of the equation. Just how smart are cephalopods, really? After all, it’s legal to farm chickens and cows. Is an octopus smarter than, say, a turkey?

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    3•1 month ago

    I’m a scuba diver, and also a spear fisher, snorkel only. I-m a very accomplished octopus fisher.

    After a night snorkel dive, where I had an amazing session of hide and seek with an octopus, where the octopus was actually playing with me, I resolved not only to not kill an octopus again, but I stopped eating octopus all together.

    I feel that eating animals that you hunt without explosives is morally fine, as you are in somewhat even terms, but octopuses are there with horses, dolphins, and dogs in my mind.