Are octopuses too intelligent to eat?

Oil-crisped tentacles, paper-thin carpaccio and octopus meat plump from slow-cooking have been popping up on restaurant menus across the country, where the long-time Mediterranean ‘superfood’ is fast being adopted as the British gourmand’s dinner-plate darling. What was once an exotic holiday meal is now consumed to the tune of 1,300 tons per year in the UK, up 12-fold since 1990. In the decade to 2019, the global trade doubled to a value of more than £2 billion.

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