Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
by ralmidani on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @01:28PM
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How does hunger necessitate eating live animals? And isn't octopus relatively expensive, anyways?
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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
by Aelinsaar on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @01:31PM
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I'm not talking specifically about eating them while alive, which is a relatively rare practice anyway. Their torment as by-catch and just in general seems more ubiquitous to me. Eating them alive is gruesome, but frankly a lot closer to what an octopus can expect in nature. Being put in solitary in a tiny box though? Being held in a tank in terrible conditions, and then brutally dispatched?
That's all too common.