Do you care about animals? Then you really shouldn't eat octopus | Elle Hunt

They may be delicious and sure, there are lots of them, but next time you're chomping down on your barbecued octopus, just remember they were the first intelligent beings on Earth and have more genes than you do

When Inky the octopus made global headlines for his eight-legged getaway from a New Zealand aquarium, I seemed to be the only person on the internet whose imagination was not caught up in his "great escape".

Chalk it up to tall poppy syndrome. But Inky's "daring" (ABC) pursuit of "liberty over security" (NPR) was no more "amazing" (the Telegraph) a feat than that which any no-name captivity octopus, anywhere in the world, is capable of any day.