The Science of Octopus Farming

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A Spanish multinational company plans to begin farming octopuses. They fall under the UK government's recent animal welfare centience bill. So that sort of implies that they have this ability to feel pain and distress, harm, also good emotions. I think there's just a lot of questions that raises about how we farm them.

Madeleine Finlay speaks to science correspondent Nicola Davis about why octopuses are more similar to us humans than we might believe. She also hears from Prof David Scheel about our increasing understanding of the sophistication of these cephalopods, and how that should influence our treatment of them. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod