Not to be low-effort, but you know Soylent Green is people, right?
I always was a little mystified at their choice of name over at the actual Soylent meal replacement company. And their choice to feature their green Soylent product as the main banner on their webpage.
It is; they even made a limited edition joke product that leaned all the way in called "Soylent Green - as good as humanly possible". I love sharing them on hiking trips although they are more funny than tasty.
NO, but it reveals what wild octopus have to put up with. Humans eating a few is like, a drop in the bucket.
Worry about something that matters. Like, to the octopus. Likely growing up in a safe well-supplied gentle pool without fear might even appeal to them.
Btw you just gave an excellent defense of why it's ok to eat dolphins. They don't care, it's business as usual for them.
When I was growing up, my mother worked at a dolphin rescue center. I spent a whole lot of my early childhood there.
Some dolphins would be make friends with specific other dolphins, and enemies out of others (bullying / attacking) and needed to be kept apart. Not all of them would actually recover enough to live to old age.
I distinctly remember times when a dolphin had a friend die, they would display what I would consider depression symptoms. Not wanting to play with toys, less interest in eating, way less activity in general.
