Octopus Respect
March 15, 2019
Octopuses should not be raised commercially for humans to eat, for reasons both ethical and ecological, an interdisciplinary group of researchers recently argued in Issues. And the Washington Post reports that some social activists and scientists, including one of the Issues authors, are objecting on similar grounds to using octopuses in research, though some studies might be allowed under tightly controlled conditions that the US government should, but does not yet, regulate.