I guess two counterpoints would be: * people can choose to eat something else (arguably the veggies) but the fish can't, and * the fish don't artificially bre

I guess two counterpoints would be: * people can choose to eat something else (arguably the veggies) but the fish can't, and * the fish don't artificially breed the octopuses, they hunt them down in a "natural" process, which presumably keeps the balance in nature I happened to not really like octopus meat too much so i don't have a horse in this race : )