Never Grow Octopuses

Dolphins: "Most people stopped eating us cause we're smart." Octopus: "cool story bro...."

They become aggressive and self-harm and eat each other because they are self-aware and this is torture.

When I watch videos of octopuses that recognize frequent divers, and how they latch on for rides or play games... I realize maybe we shouldn't farm them to eat. They're as smart as dogs, so eating one feels just as taboo to me.

I don’t eat them. They are too smart for me to do it. They are too interesting.

When a female octopus lays eggs she dies after they hatch. She gives her life to make sure nothing eats her babies.

Ive eaten them before... but stopped after learning about them. Its insane just how smart these things are.

What if octopuses have a human farm, and they’re running into the same issues.

I wish people would stop eating these amazing creatures. We eat enough animals already.

I hate seeing people catch and take them at the pier, one time this dude had 3 in a bucket and I was trying to convince him to put them back, he didn’t. But he turned around for about 1 minute, went to check on them, they all escaped and squeezed through a 1” crack in the pier. I was stoked and cheering for them lol.

I can fix it. Leave them alone. No I’m not a vegan or animal activist. They’re too intelligent to be held captive, just like elephants.

I'm sorry, but this just seems wrong somehow. They're just way too intelligent to raise them without cruelty.

If they found a way to extend the life of the octopus that's a scary thought one of the reasons why octopus intelligence hasn't gotten much bigger is because of their short lifespan. If you add more time to learn you increase the capacity for intelligence...

Im not a vegan or an animal rights activist or w/e, hell i've eaten squids and octopus but theres something weirding me out about farming highly intelligent creatures for food consumption. Somehow it feels more "right" to catch them in the wild for some reason lol

These are sentient and very intelligent creatures. This is not 'farming', it's torture and murder. 'Breeding generations in captivity' is called slavery. This is beyond sad.🥺

in my opinion eating octopi is very cruel (especially If their alive)

I think octopuses are just wayyy too smart for us to be doing this to them.

The recent popularity of Takoyaki has greatly worsened this issue imo

arm continues to move because each arm has its own brain and seperate nervous system

They also tend to trust people, this is horrific, monstrous abuse, cruelty,betrayal. People please find pétitions urgently on change and promote boycotts of any and all consumption of these precious créatures.

They are fun to play with. Much smarter than cats. I had octopus friends in the south pacific Samoa to be specific.

Imagine that octopuses in the future will develop a plan and destroy humanity using the same methods 😱

Always producing interesting and informative videos Thank You keep up the great work

octopus are too inteligent to be treated as food and typically too high up the food chain to actually be viable

This channel won't never get old because this channel teaches us some pretty cool things

This is horrific!! How can humans do this to another creature? Omg, it's so wrong. We have become the monsters....

WATOP as usual makes my day more interesting

"Resulting in a slow, painful death which has been scientifically confirmed." .... Did a scientist freeze an octopus just to watch it die?

They genetically modified these octopus in order to farm them.

okay, seriously -- with all the different animals and plants we already eat, do people *_REALLY_* have to add octopus to the menu? like, don't we have enough variety as it is? when will enough be enough?

I used to love eating them when I was a kid but when I became aware of their intelligence (late teens) I stopped. Now I try to inform people how eating Octopus is like eating a crow, magpie, cat, dog or dolphin.

7:34 "their natual habitat is in the wild" me too bro

Supposedly, a local woman had an octopus which layed eggs and continued to live and thrive after they hatched. I hope buy one from her for my aquarium.

Not vegetarian... And i love eating octopus... But how can some people be so easily influenced to the point where they see an animal and think it's a delicacy, just because of marketing? Want octopus? Go catch one yourself lmao There are 100s of other animals that are either, as tasty or far easier to farm... Humans are so smart yet so naive at the same time

I think octopus are sentient. At least super intelligent. They can use tools. I wont eat them.

I don't think u should farm animals that are smarter than most people it's sad for the octopus

All because stinky rich people decided they wanted to eat octopus.

The most important thing is that they keep trying and will continue to grow them for meat, what a cruel world

I have a feeling they'd farm humans if it wasn't illegal

Thanks for the info, I think I'm gonna do that 24/7 now.

This feels like the plot of some sort of horror movie

This was the best - well rounded, informative and entertaining documentary I have seen on octopuses. I love them so much, swimming or fried, that I want to get a tattoo of one crawling out of my shirt neck-line. I quit eating them for about two weeks after I'd watched several documentaries about how friendly and intelligent they are. Then logic kicked in and, considering the relish they have in eating each other, I decided it would be foolish to disrespect their own tradition.

Mandela effect, I always knew the plural of octopus as octopi. I also was taught growing up that the plural of fish is fish. I remember being in school and discussing the word “fishes” wasn’t a word. 🤯 Did this change or has it always been this way?

Seems to me like an animal that needs to be left alone.

Octopus farms sounds similar to humans in cubicle farms

Octopus used to be one of my favorites as in octopus salad. Ever since I learned of their habits and intelligence I no longer eat them and I would like to see them undisturbed

I've gone vegan and/or vegetarian numerous times because of the heart-wrenching conditions of most large-scale agricultural practices. I do the research, get sad, and give up meat, but it's usually a mighty struggle that falls apart after a couple of years because I inevitably crave/miss meat. However, after watching *My Teacher the Octopus* on Netflix, I knew from a deep-down place in myself that I would never eat an octopus again (a flavor I enjoy very much). It wasn't a choice/commitment as much as a realization that my octopus-eating days were over. Unlike giving up domesticated land animals, giving up octopus has never been a struggle. That documentary changed me...not in a huge way, but in a permanent way. For years now, whenever I've seen octopus on a menu, I've been transported back to the joy of that documentary, and the only regret I feel is for the octopuses that will be consumed that night. This is a creature whose curiosity & intelligence broke through my "meat-craving" wiring, and I am grateful for it.

0:28 that back ground sound will forever remind me of Top notch idiots 😂😂😂😂

As much as i love most seafood, I can eat Octopus. As they've been scientifically proofed to be Sentient Beings.

I've eaten octopus a few times. I like it. But it's not an animal that should be farmed.

With our luck, with so many octopuses together, they'll figure out how to summon Chthulu

Where are all the Karen’s telling us it’s Octopi!? lol 🐙

All about money basically

What the music you have in the background at the start? Relaxing.

Aliens 👽 from another planet 🌏 will devastate earth because of what humans are doing to their ancestors the octopus, the squid and other sea creatures

keep talking about the intelligence when we eat pork every day, and they're crazy smart

Octopuses are way too intelligent to kept them in small tanks. Please don’t eat them, they have 8 brains and you can’t kill them without doing harm.

I wonder if a farm would work if they find a way to make a octopus video game. Some form of entertainment in a small space.

Ethics go right out the window when profit is involved...

The CGI budget has doubled🤣

Why, isn't there enough other stuff to eat! You got me I don't know what to say! I would not eat it! This is something I did not know about, thank you!

It's like keeping bird in cages!😢

Do you want an interspecies war? Cause this is how you get an interspecies war.

So sad. I will never eat one.

I love octopus

Birth of the mindflayer

This is creepy. I hate it, thanks.

I am not a big fan of the Deep from the TV series "The Boys" but the scene in which he eats an octopus named Timothy while translating the begging for its life just made me cry. Watch documentaries like "Earthlings", "Dominion", "Pignorant" etc to see and hear the same begging in real life or just go to a slaughterhouse or fishing boat...!

Anyone see the short about the cutest baby cow that answers its owners whistle, comes running and takes a bottle? Yeah. Vegan anyone?

I think the right ethical argument for domesticating animals whether it be for food or companionship, is the belief in mutualism. That captivity grants certain animals an edge against natural selection and allows that animal to breed plentifully and the possibility that that animal could live a bit more successfully than it would in the wild. Octopus are delicious, but they should remain wild catch. It's like how we understand tuna, salmon, and other blue water fish. Obviously as predatory top food chain animals, humans cannot provide a better environment.

Wait what now i'm British and i didn't even know we caught octopus. I'd assume that they would be imported for our British Asians and possibly served in some restaurants but i never knew we caught them domestically or should i say kept them.

How's about we do not farm and or catch octopus for consumption??

This is how sci-fi horror movies begin...

Fishing using bleach is so laughable, what money makes people do is hilarious

Constant self-harm! What are these people not understanding?

Sure, let's catch and mess with octopus DNA. Who knows, we might see kraken in our lifetime, or perhaps few hundred years later.

Why do we keep opening Pandora's Box 🤨🤨🤨

This is how the evolve ..shapeshift into people after becoming social and take over

Ah I feel just because octopuses aren’t vertabrates they are treated with less respect, I mean they are as smart as cats (and maybe more) but for the most part humans don’t eat live cats because that would be unethical 🐱 🐙

So, for food they want to cage the best escape artists?

To be fair they have a decentralized nervous system and sentient muscles are a unique taste. I can imagine eating a live/squirming one is a surreal rush like a vampire or Wraith feeding on a live human, but that is way to guilty of a pleasure to be ethical at this scale. No hunger can justify this. Also I'm pretty sure forcing them to socialize is how they develop language, civilize, and get revenge on us one day.

In Malindi, Kenya, local women have a place on a shallow beach in the Indian ocean where they cultivate

I am by no means one of the people who obsess over not eating meat due to unethical farming practices, but I would need to be quite desperate before I had any octopus meat. A cow is a big and dumb animal that in its natural habitat stands around and eats grass all day, an octopus is an intelligent predator that nonetheless would be more interested in playing with you than eating you, there's simply no comparing the two.

They taste delicious❤

I would never eat a octopus and growing them are not ok.

Determination could be a great quality to have but you need the intelligence to know when to give it up. This is one of those instances.

Does this work the same way for squid? I love fried calamari but if I ever found out they were just as smart and as hard to farm, I would stop eating it.

This is quite instigating to me, it show me farming animals from the bottom of the food chain is less harmful to the environment due to presser on the environment from our food commands. But animals from the top of the food chains for example humans would require more from the environment putting a huge amount of press on the environment. Hmmm?

Octopus farmers would have to breed the food for their prey as well. It would be good to create a smaller ecosystem to give them an environment that is mostly self sustaining.

This is my they are my fav animals

spider for silk have similar problem.

I've had octopus. But I really want one as a pet buddy

The invasive species known as human.

Why you ask? because they are smart, really frikkin smart

They’re too intelligent, I can’t eat ‘em

Octopuses are a very interesting animal would be cool to fit one with a small cam to see what it does in wild... have a good day everyone.

Man so in love with greed he Has forgotten himself and found only appetite

Damn I keep finding new ways to be disappointed

To be honest, I dont give a damn how smart they are. What is important is how they are treated when farmed.

You ever had em grilled with butter and spices

Talk about a lotta heart, in the face of colonization, gentrification, farmization, & or adversity!