Act Now to Prevent Inhumane Octopus Farms in the United States
Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane conditions and prolonged suffering. To prevent this unsustainable and cruel practice from expanding, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have introduced the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act (S. 1947) to ban both commercial octopus farming in the US and any import of farmed octopus. Please urge your senators to cosponsor this bill to help protect octopuses.
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