We could be discussing it for a lot of time and thinking that this is a moral problem, but in fact is much more simple. This is commercial war A half Chinese r

We could be discussing it for a lot of time and thinking that this is a moral problem, but in fact is much more simple. This is commercial war A half Chinese researcher criticizing a Spanish company for killing octopi? feels like a bad joke. Would be like Samsung claiming than using i-phones is immoral and we all should boycott it. There are more than hints of a conflict of interest here. Spain invested more than a decade of research into learning how to breed octopuses. Most of it, failure after failure. The fact is that China is the main competitor in this market and would be --extremely happy-- to have this technology today, and exploit the market at much bigger scale. A solid clue is that this is published in "business insider" and not in "the friends of Kant". Calling to boycott against competitors, while you earn some extra time to clone, copy, or develop the same techniques is a classic foul move, and the really immoral part here.