A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the ...

Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other states — plus the US Senate — to do the same. Lawmakers in Chile and ...

Commercial octopus farming and farmed-raised octopus meat imports would be banned under bipartisan legislation from Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Lisa Murkowski. The Rhode Island Democrat and the ...

Pieces of deep fried octopus meat on display at an open air joint on March 11 2016. Photo by Mwangi Muraguri/ Standard There is no doubt that pweza (octopus) is a revered delicacy at the Kenyan Coast.