<story><title>Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/asia/inky-octopus-new-zealand-aquarium.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarreph</author><text>It upsets me to no end that we find evidence such as this piece that cephalopods are actually (relatively speaking) remarkably more intelligent than common wisdom pertains[0], and yet the culinary abuse and harm (i.e. &amp;#x27;live sushi&amp;#x2F;sashimi&amp;#x27;) of these creatures continues.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>Are you against eating all animals or is there a cut off point of intelligence after which it stops being okay?&lt;p&gt;Most of what is&amp;#x2F;isn&amp;#x27;t acceptable to eat is based on history and popular socially accepted practices, not whether people think their prospective dinner is intelligent. Pigs are  more intelligent than dogs yet the latter are not eaten in the western world and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to live in a world without the (delicious) former.</text></comment>
<story><title>Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/asia/inky-octopus-new-zealand-aquarium.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarreph</author><text>It upsets me to no end that we find evidence such as this piece that cephalopods are actually (relatively speaking) remarkably more intelligent than common wisdom pertains[0], and yet the culinary abuse and harm (i.e. &amp;#x27;live sushi&amp;#x2F;sashimi&amp;#x27;) of these creatures continues.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codyb</author><text>According to seafood watch, market squid are at the very least sustainable [0]. Squid and octopus are different I believe, but calamari is squid if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken.&lt;p&gt;As for Octopus, it appears a bit more iffy [1].&lt;p&gt;As for intelligence, that&amp;#x27;s secondary to sustainability for my eating habits at this point.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.neaq.org&amp;#x2F;conservation_and_research&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;fisheries_bycatch_aquaculture&amp;#x2F;sustainable_fisheries&amp;#x2F;celebrate_seafood&amp;#x2F;ocean-friendly_seafood&amp;#x2F;species&amp;#x2F;market_squid.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.neaq.org&amp;#x2F;conservation_and_research&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;fishe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;seafood.edf.org&amp;#x2F;octopus#bmb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;seafood.edf.org&amp;#x2F;octopus#bmb=1&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>