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The octopus looks like a brain with tentacles.
My stance on animal welfare is that everyone has the right to as comfortable a life as they'd have naturally. Cattle have the right to grazing pasture and curiosities to investigate, beaver have the right to manage their pools, wolves have the right to roam and to hunt, and octopi have the right to be some of the smartest minds in the seas and do practically whatever they want with that brain. Note, though, that one of those rights is "to hunt". More and more, studies are showing that there's no meaningful difference between human intelligence and sapience and those of other animals -- and so the call to action is always that we should ban meat or fur or what have you. Noble, sure, but it's moving the goalposts of "oh, humans are still inherently better than other omnivores/carnivores because we can choose not to kill," and in the process demonizing the majority of the food chain.

We should absolutely ban factory farms, encourage more (though not entirely) plant-based diets, examine the ways human convenience is prioritized over non-human quality of life. That's different from forbidding people derive any benefit from other animals. I call myself vegetarian when talking to people because it's the easiest shorthand, but I have no problem consuming meat from farmers' markets where I know the chicken would have been treated well (and while I recognize there's privilege in being able to do so, we should focus on supporting small farms and on helping people with less financial and/or geographic access get that access, rather than on blanket regulation). I fully support responsible hunting (use the vast majority of the carcass for something) as having let your kill live as full a life as the wilds allow until that point.