Nueva Pescanova is planning to rear about one million octopuses for food every year at a farm in Spain's Canary Islands, according to confidential documents leaked to British broadcaster BBC.
The plan will see octopuses which are solitary creatures that dwell mostly in the dark - grouped together in tanks and exposed to round-the-clock unnatural light in a two-storey building.
The documents, uncovered by animal protection lobby group Eurogroup for Animals, state that the octopuses will be fed with "fish discards and by-products". They will be killed by being placed in water chilled to minus 3 deg C, a process scientists called cruel.
Nueva Pescanova denies that the animals will suffer, but scientists and animal welfare campaigners are unconvinced.
This story is from the March 19, 2023 edition of The Straits Times.
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