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jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 0 · 2d ago 
All animals are intelligent. We eat plant based foods.
Plants have their own type intelligence. For instance daisies open and close with the sun, and they track it's motion through the skies during the day. Studies have also shown that plants use chemicals to "communicate" when attacked, causing neighbours to emit toxins. We don't know the half of it.
Our family eats plant based as well.
That includes our dog Grady, vet-approved.
You think plants are stupid?
I won’t eat octopus. I refuse to eat something that is probably smarter than most people I know
Yes too smart to eat. We should be learning to communicate instead of killing them.
#SentientBeings
#LiveWithNoRegrets
I get miffed when ANY species seems to be valued only for its intelligence….JFC
I agree... strange headline.
Octopuses play a vital role in marine ecosystems as both predators and prey, controlling populations and engineering their surroundings. Their camouflage skills and habitat play a significant role in shaping the complex dynamics of marine ecosystems. #KeystoneSpecies
If it were squid, I'd be ok with the sea farming.
Octopus are.... Like us. Though short lived. Compared to us.
Octopus farming is wrong on so many levels… even if you aren’t vegan, allowing rich corporations to begin the factory farming of an undomesticated carnivorous species of alien intelligence will cause immense suffering and harm, for other animals and humans…
I won't eat them. Just feels wrong.
Octopus reached near-celebrity status five years ago thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher.
It documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest. /end
youtu.be/b-lbIJHlmbE?...
A great film.
"My Octopus Teacher" is an amazing movie.
but pigs, somehow, are still ok to raise, kill, and eat
I never eat anything with a nervous system more complex than my own.
And not that tasty.