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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses Act (A.B. 3162), which was co-sponsored by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Social Compassion in Legislation, into law to prohibit ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday signed a bill into law to ban the farming of octopuses and farmed octopus sales. Under AB 3162, also known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, authored ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses Act was signed into law Sunday prohibiting octopus farming on land and water as well as the sale of farmed octopuses statewide. The new ...

California lawmakers have approved a bill that would make it illegal to farm octopuses in state waters or on land, as well as to import them. The bill, AB 3162, now sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, ...

An octopus at the Kanaloa Octopus Farm in Hawaii. California is now the second state to ban octopus farming, after Washington. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan ...

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GALICIA, Spain (AP) — At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, ...

Octopus farming would be banned in Oregon under a bill that animal welfare advocates claim is necessary to protect the ocean dwellers from inhumane treatment. Supporters of House Bill 2557 say now is ...

On the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, a company called Nueva Pescanova has quietly built the world’s first commercial octopus farm—a facility designed to breed and slaughter 3,000 metric tons of ...