{"id":12840,"date":"2023-06-25T01:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2023-07-03T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T01:05:07","slug":"octopus-farming-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/25\/octopus-farming-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Farming. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jun\/25\/a-symbol-of-what-humans-shouldnt-be-doing-the-new-world-of-octopus-farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018A symbol of what humans shouldn\u2019t be doing\u2019: the new world of octopus farming<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans for the world\u2019s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced \u2013 just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/ashifa-kassam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashifa Kassam<\/a>\u00a0in O Grove, Pontevedra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World&#039;s first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists \u2013 BBC News\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WaEPJsPz8EM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>he sterile boardroom, much of it taken up by a lengthy white table, is at the heart of the sprawling building in northern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spain<\/a>. The corporate chatter that fills this room these days, however, is dominated by the scene playing out one floor below, where about 50 adult male octopuses are in a tank the size of a budget hotel room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A handful of the octopuses \u2013 the fifth generation to be born in this Spanish multinational\u2019s concrete-and-glass office and research centre \u2013 skim through the shallow waters, some brushing up against each other while others tuck into the tank\u2019s barren corners. A low-intensity light casts a pale glow as researchers lay the groundwork for one of the world\u2019s most&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jun\/25\/a-symbol-of-what-humans-shouldnt-be-doing-the-new-world-of-octopus-farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian \u2018A symbol of what humans shouldn\u2019t be doing\u2019: the new world of octopus farming Plans for the world\u2019s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced \u2013 just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically? by\u00a0Ashifa Kassam\u00a0in O Grove, Pontevedra he sterile boardroom, much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}