BUT YOU TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT
Unfortunately as we get older, we are methodically drawn away from our connection to other animals, and conditioned to turn a blind eye to their suffering. Living in an anthropocentric world, we are trained to find various excuses for the exploitation of animals and are constantly assured of our inherent superiority to all other beings. As a result of this problematic mentality, most wild animals have been hunted to extinction and those that remain, are doomed to suffer the horrific consequences of the Anthropocene.
Though it is true that the ever – growing presence of humans has affected the lives of all living beings, those suffering the most devastating consequences of our greed are farmed animals, who are raised and kept in frightening conditions for the sole purpose of becoming someone’s supper.
However, as much as we try to ignore the ugly truth of our consumer choices, or how desperate we are to convince ourselves of our inherent superiority and the subsequent right it gives us to erase the value of the lives of other animals, the truth remains that we are directly responsible for the suffering of trillions of sentient animals who are tortured through every life stage and eventually brutally killed while their loved – ones watch in terror, waiting for their turn to enter the kill – floor.
It is time we take a look at the life of the victims…
Octopuses
Octopuses are considered to be the most intelligent invertebrates.
They use a variety of strategies to defend themselves when threatened, including camouflage, expelling ink from their siphons, hiding or moving backwards with speed.
Research has shown that octopuses have a one-of-a-kind feature since most of their nerves are located in their tentacles, which they also partially use to think.
Octopuses are social and have an impressive ability to learn and develop new skills. Some experiments have shown that octopuses have impressively good memory and learning capabilities. At a German zoo, it was discovered that an octopus had learned how to open jars full of shrimps just by watching and mimicking the behavior of the zoo’s staff. The octopus, just 5 months old, opened the jars by pressing its body on the lid and latching onto the sides of the jar with its 8 tentacles. They are so smart that an octopus named Rambo had been given a waterproof camera and was taking photographs of visitors to her tank at Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand! It was trained to take photos of those who stopped by to see her. Imagine that!
In addition, it is a fact that octopuses are especially vulnerable to stress.
Unfortunately, despite concrete evidence of their intelligence and unique abilities, we treat them with particular cruelty. Not only do we recklessly overfish them, but also violently kill them by slamming them on rocks while they are still completely conscious, as this method is believed to "soften" their meat before… cooking.
Find here a very interesting research on octopuses