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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12259865/TOM-LEONARD-protest-erupt-plans-new-octopus-farm-eating-banned.html

So intelligent scientists once said they could be ALIENS,
the similarities between octopuses and humans will shock
you... As protests erupt over a cruel new $71M mass farm

Should eating these magnificent creatures be banned?

Their brains work like ours; they’re affectionate,
curious and playful; they feel pain and get bored;
and, as it emerged just weeks ago, they may even
dream in the same way we do.

So alike but also so utterly unalike for they also
have eight legs, three hearts and bluey-green blood.

Octopuses have been described by Australian philosopher
Peter Godfrey-Smith as ‘probably the closest we will
come to meeting an intelligent alien’.

. . .

Don't know if they're generally THAT smart - but
they ARE smart. On the whole, I'd say it's probably
unethical to eat them. Become informed and then
YOU choose.

Or, eventually, somebody's gonna choose FOR you,
just sayin' ... what was the old line "Those who
will not control themselves will BE controlled
(except in Blue cities)" ..

Hey, 2-year-olds aren't quite as sharp as adults,
does that mean baby-eating is OK ?

And skip the "dominate the earth" quasi-religious
bullshit straight out of the flat-earth days ...

(yea, yea, the Devil MADE the Earth round just to
corrupt the faithful :-) )

There are still places in asia where monkeys and
chimps and such are torturously consumed just for
the pure sadistic thrill of it.

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