Life on the Octopus Farm
The Ethics and Future of Growing the World's Most Intelligent Invertebrate
$317.03
- Hardcover
186 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
In 2021, the London School of Economics found that octopuses are sentient beings, capable of experiencing pain, distress, and happiness, and that high-welfare farming of them would therefore be impossible. But the enormous international demand for octopus meat continues to grow even as wild octopus populations decline, prompting a race to bring the first farm-raised product to market. At the same time, firestorms of protest in Europe and the United States over the ethics of farming such an in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469696874 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1469696878 |
| Author: | Richard Schweid |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 186 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 25mm x 155mm |
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“Schweid leverages an infectious curiosity to ask big questions about how man relates to animals. In the octopus, he has met and won his match. Readers will emerge from this book smarter, more worldly, and more humane.”—John T. Edge, author of House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home and The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
“The ethical concerns of farming and eating octopus are as many-armed as the animals themselves. Schweid respects that complexity and explores it with admirable reach.”—Wyatt Williams, author of Springer Mountain: Meditations on Killing and Eating
“Schweid grapples with unanswerable questions in this engaging, personal narrative about an intriguing, beloved creature.“—Teresa R. Johnson, University of Maine“Vivid and satisfyingly philosophical, Schweid’s quest begins with octopuses yet dares to ask a deeper question: Why do humans eat what they eat?”— Clint Rainey, Fast Company
“By focusing not only on octopus but also on the people and cultures of the places attempting to farm them, Schweid humanizes a debate too often reduced to theory.“— Chris Loew, editor of J-Fish.comAbout The Author
Richard Schweid
Richard Schweid is a journalist and author based in Barcelona and coastal Rhode Island.
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