World Octopus Day: NGOs unite to call for EU ban on cruel octopus factory farming
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Friday, October 7, 2022
New York, NY, Oct. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compassion in World Farming has joined forces with NGOs from all over Europe and beyond to call on the EU to ban the cruel and environmentally damaging practice of octopus farming this World Octopus Day (Oct. 8, 2022).
Key Points:
- New York, NY, Oct. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compassion in World Farming has joined forces with NGOs from all over Europe and beyond to call on the EU to ban the cruel and environmentally damaging practice of octopus farming this World Octopus Day (Oct. 8, 2022).
- A powerful report, Octopus Farming A Recipe for Disaster , produced by Compassion in World Farming, shows how octopuses are highly intelligent and sentient wild animals who would suffer greatly in unnatural factory farm conditions.
- The EU must ban the farming of octopuses and other cephalopods to ensure this cruel practice cannot be developed.
- Notes to Editors: Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British dairy farmer who became horrified at the development of intensive factory farming.