New Jersey lawmakers are considering banning octopus farming. Supporters say it is cruel to octopuses and breeds germs that threaten public health, while critics in the seafood industry complain it ...

The on-farm science group BOFIN is starting a three-year £2.5 million project funded through Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme. It'll be growing the first commercial trial of precision-bred oilseed ...

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Washington has already banned octopus farming. The bill would further crack down on the practice by outlawing the sale, possession, transport and distribution of farmed octopuses.

A worker removes an octopus' beak at Frigorificos Arcos SL on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in O Carballino, Spain. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag) GALICIA, Spain (AP) — At a humming factory in the Spanish ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday signed a bill into law to ban the farming of octopuses and farmed octopus sales. Under AB 3162, also known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, authored ...

Octopus farming would be banned in Oregon under a bill that animal welfare advocates claim is necessary to protect the ocean dwellers from inhumane treatment. Supporters of House Bill 2557 say now is ...

The unsustainability and cruelty involved in octopus farming prompted Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to introduce the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced ...

GALICIA, Spain — At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, ...