After going for a summer recess until September Congress has showed how much they want to better the lives of the American People before they go on their 2 month long vacation.

Anything that is happening now pails in comparison on what we need to solve in this country more than ever. Congress is finally going to solve the issue of farming octopi by banning the practice of farming said animal.

NPR

A controversial plan to commercially farm octopus for meat has led to a U.S. bill that would ban the practice, along with any imports linked to it. Bipartisan legislation to ban octopus farming was introduced in Congress on Friday, after NPR reported on the issue.

“Octopuses are among the most intelligent creatures in the oceans. And they belong at sea, not suffering on a factory farm,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, a co-author of the bill, said in a statement to NPR.

I find it funny that there is somehow controversy with this bill since this issue is a nonexistent one. No American is thinking about how a marine animal is being farmed for food.

Well after Spain was farming octopi Congress jumped into action to prevent it from happening in America because reasons.

The legislation comes as scientists and animal advocates express outrage over a plan by a large seafood company in Spain to farm octopuses on an unprecedented scale to harvest them for seafood. Whitehouse became aware of the company’s plan through the NPR story, according to the senator’s office.

There are no current reports of plans for an industrial octopus farm in the U.S. But Whitehouse said he and the bill’s other co-author, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, decided to act preemptively, to “prevent U.S. companies from participating in this brutal practice before it takes root.”

The new legislation is titled the OCTOPUS Act — short for Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies. It would require anyone importing octopus into the U.S. to certify that it was not produced through commercial aquaculture.

If it becomes law, the ban would impose a civil fine up to $100,000 for each violation. It includes a handful of exceptions, for cases such as aquarium displays, breeding programs and research purposes.

Yes the American government will fine you 100K for raising an animal that doesn’t even survive for a full year. There are like other animals that we need to worry about that live way longer and are becoming extinct, but somehow Pandas and now octopi are the conservation priority now.

Kinda kek how after years of yapping about the environment this is what conservationists get in their long struggle. The reward is a law that isn’t even for our endangered wildlife/marine life but for an animal that people have eaten since forever and have no problem with being a food source. Plus the farming would save them from being poached into extinction in the first place so this whole thing is going to make the problem continue unprovoked.

Remember to vote for in 2026 for their reelection because if you don’t then they won’t pass a law banning another animal people around the world eaten for centuries.