There is no such thing as a ‘food’ animal. There is no relevant distinction between those whose corpses we casually toss into supermarket trolleys or whose charred remains lie on our plates, and the other creatures who share our homes or our lives.
Best of Show in the
9th Annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest
Octopus are soft-bodied, eight-limbed molluscs of the order
Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped
within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and
nautiloids.
This blog was originally inspired by the many excellent articles
I’ve read which provide insight to these fascinating creatures.
These articles are always popular on social media, even amongst
those who would think nothing of devouring these same individuals as
a dietary indulgence.
As an animal rights blogger, however fascinating they are, I’m only
too aware that alongside approximately 3 trillion of their fellow
water-dwellers every year, cephalopods are considered – like every
other species on the planet – to exist solely for the use and
exploitation of the most brutal and oppressive species that has ever
existed. Humans.
So I’d like to stress something really important. There is no such
thing as a ‘food’ animal. There is no relevant distinction between
those whose corpses we casually toss into supermarket trolleys or
whose charred remains lie on our plates, and the other creatures who
share our homes or our lives. This also applies in the case of the
cephalopod corpses that we, in our arrogance, treat as ingredients,
and the stars of the videos and articles below. The concept of
‘food’ animals, like our self-serving laws and our invented
conditions for our behaving with basic decency towards other
species, are all a fabrication and lead to depravities we can
scarcely imagine.
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