Allison Molinaro | Source | U.S. Campaigns Manager at Compassion in World Farming

Kanaloa calls itself a conservation group yet octopuses “only reproduce once, and die shortly after,” says Allison Molinaro, CIWF US Campaigns Manager. “Kanaloa was removing octopuses from the wild and forcing them to breed in captivity,” she says, adding — “none of the octopuses born on the farm survived past 13 days.”

“The Farm Bill's current framework is built for a bygone era. Its structure encourages the production of already overproduced feed grain crops and discourages the production of sorely needed nutritious fruits, vegetables, and legumes. It offers taxpayer money to multibillion-dollar corporations but fails to adequately support hundreds of local and socially disadvantaged farmers.

The Food and Farm Act provides the makeover that the Farm Bill desperately needs to address the root causes of America's modern issues, including diet-related disease, animal suffering, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and climate change. The bill also closes loopholes that businesses have exploited for years, such as the corporate use of taxpayer money to fund legally mandated manure management on factory farms.” - Featured in Congressman Blumenauer's Farm Act Press Release