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Yesterday, our team in Sacramento had the honor of advocating for AB 3162 next to 10-year old athlete and activist, Lily Niederhofer. Lily, who lives in Portugal, took on an amazing challenge – she swam two kilometres in the Atlantic ocean to help raise funds for Compassion in World Farming's campaign to stop the world’s first commercial octopus farm.
Octopus-loving Lily has been a vegetarian for years and is a passionate defender of the ocean and marine wildlife. When she heard about plans to build an octopus factory farm on Gran Canaria in Spain she was motivated to do all she could to stop it from happening. Her swim raised over $12K for the campaign to save octopus!
Now she is touring the United States to support state legislation to ban octopus farming and sales of farmed octopus. She has made stops in Washington, Oregon, and California!
We are had so much fun with Lily, and her supportive parents and little brother. We ask that you join us in supporting AB 3162 (and AB 2640, a bill to strengthen students' rights to opt-out of dissecting animals) by calling the legislator's below!
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