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We must protect octopuses from these traumatic experiences. Octopus Farms Are Cruel and Hurt the Environment, Too. Ban Them Now! Sign Now    Dear friends, Washington state just took a major step forward to protect the intelligent, sensitive, wonderful creatures that are octopuses. Its legislators passed the world's first-ever law to ban Octopus farming! This should serve as an inspiration for other U.S. states to do the same. Octopus farming is cruel and wrong for many reasons. For starters, octopuses are incredibly smart, emotionally sensitive, and prefer to live solitary lives. This makes captivity excruciating for them. Shoved together with many other octopuses, they start to demonstrate aggressive responses, even to the point of self-harming. In some cases, captive octopuses have become so distressed, they have eaten off their own limbs.   They live their whole lives like this... just to be killed in the end, to become someone's meal. It's also terrible for the environment. Octopus farms seriously pollute the areas around them, dumping phosphorus and nitrogen waste, as well as other toxic contaminants such as fertilizers, into surrounding water sources. These travel and spread easily along major water systems. On top of that, diseases can proliferate quickly within these enclosures, and then extend out to nearby wildlife populations. Two other states — California and Hawai'i — have also introduced legislation to ban octopus farming, but those bills haven't passed yet. Sign the petition to demand lawmakers in California and Hawai'i follow Washington's incredible lead and ban octopus farming, too!   Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. More U.S. states should pass laws protecting these incredible animals from such traumatic experiences. Sign the petition.      Sign Now