A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that

Post by PrimeMcFly » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:01 PM UTC

SirWart wrote: post #14

I visited an experimental octopus farm in Hawaii once, expecting to come away feeling guilty about eating octopus since I had heard so much about how smart they are. It ended up having the opposite effect, since I learned that they only live 2 years and aren't social creatures. This is opposite of every other intelligent creature that we know of, and so I'm extremely skeptical of claims of their intelligence. They mi…

Post by jjtheblunt » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

hasty_pudding wrote: post #12

Not trying to be a SJW but a drove an 18 wheeler for a year and would pick up meat from slaughter houses and the way they treat those animals is god forsakenly bad.They put hundreds of chickens in a room and spray water with electrical current into it. The cows would come in on trucks just terrified with the walls covered in their own feces. Not even going to get started on the conditions in which they are raised. It…

Post by dogman144 » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:03 PM UTC

SirWart wrote: post #14

I visited an experimental octopus farm in Hawaii once, expecting to come away feeling guilty about eating octopus since I had heard so much about how smart they are. It ended up having the opposite effect, since I learned that they only live 2 years and aren't social creatures. This is opposite of every other intelligent creature that we know of, and so I'm extremely skeptical of claims of their intelligence. They mi…

Post by maxglute » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:04 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #13

The real problem is that nearly all seafood is unsustainable. Even when using euphemisms like 'farms' make us thing it's somewhat contained to one place and we just throw them some food pellets manufactured from vegetables in another factory. The reality of salmon farms for instance is that for every 1kg of farmed Salmon it takes 20kg of wild fish to feed them to maturity.

Post by lawlessone » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

maxglute wrote: post #27

s_dev wrote: post #13

The real problem is that nearly all seafood is unsustainable. Even when using euphemisms like 'farms' make us thing it's somewhat contained to one place and we just throw them some food pellets manufactured from vegetables in another factory. The reality of salmon farms for instance is that for every 1kg of farmed Salmon it takes 20kg of wild fish to feed them to maturity.

There's a lot of shit ton of algaes blooming due to climate change. Wonder if that can be sourced as protein / feed.