Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:50 GMT

As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animalsIn 2022 Nueva Pescanova, Spain’s largest fisheries business, announced it was investing €65m (£56m) in the world’s first industrial octopus farm and processing plant near the Canary Islands’ port of Las Palmas.Despite the creatures being notoriously difficult to farm, the company predicted that by 2025 it would be producing 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year on Gran Canaria. Continue reading...

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