Elena Lara, PhD
@elarabcn
Marine biologist working in Compassion in World Farming. Studying Planetary Health. Views expressed here are my own.
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http://rethink.fish 25-01-2012 16:11:56
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"Octopus are solitary by nature & territorial, if we keep them in high densities in farms this will be very stressful, it can lead to aggression, cannibalization" Elena Lara, PhD, our Research Manager, on BBC News (World) calling for plans to start farming #octopus to be rejected.
We should be ending factory farming, not finding new species to confine. Alongside Eurogroup For Animals we've exposed the cruel plans for the world’s first commercial #octopus farm. Read more: bit.ly/3yGzpyK #StopOctopusFarming
Happy #WorldAquaticAnimalDay! 🐟 🐙 🦀 On top of welfare issues, farming carnivores is wasteful. A sustainable food system should transition aquaculture to low-trophic species (seaweed, bivalves, etc). Read Compassion in World Farming UK's report on rethinking EU aquaculture ⤵️bit.ly/3ztzkPw
🐙 Nueva Pescanova vol construir la primera #granja del món de cria de pops pel seu #consum a #LasPalmas. Elena Lara, PhD, de Compassion in World Farming UK, avisa dels riscos. 🗣️ "El #pop és un #animal solitari i territorial que no pot estar en situació de granja intensiva" youtu.be/bNNR_WCp1ig
Octopus farming must be stopped! 🐙✋ 27 organisations have joined us to call on Thérèse Coffey to ensure products from octopus farms are not permitted in the UK. We need to be ending factory farming - not finding new animals to exploit. 🐙 Read more: bit.ly/41udgR3
Thanks to politicians like @FGuerreiroMEP, we can aim to do things better for animals and the environment. Octopus farming has no place in a truly sustainable aquaculture industry that takes into account the welfare of the animals involved. #StopOctopusFarming Compassion in World Farming UK
“We should stop all abuses, but if there is a chance to begin somewhere we should take it, rather than waiting for perfection.” I spoke to philosopher Martha Nussbaum & others for this The New Statesman piece on plans to intensively farm octopus: newstatesman.com/environment/fo…