Octopus farms raise huge animal welfare concerns - and they're unsustainable too

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When you imagine an octopus’s world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment.

Yet the reality of life for some octopuses is existence within a barren tank, inescapably surrounded by humans and other octopuses. This is the bleak world of octopus farming – and soon there could be new commercial farms on the horizon.