{"id":2399363,"date":"2026-05-02T18:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2399363"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:35:18","slug":"im-no-vegetarian-but-i-already-know-remarkably-bright-creatures-will-affect-my-food-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/im-no-vegetarian-but-i-already-know-remarkably-bright-creatures-will-affect-my-food-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m No Vegetarian, But I Already Know Remarkably Bright Creatures Will Affect My Food Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Netflix<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I don\u2019t know much about <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/em>, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/upcoming-book-screen-adaptations-read-140405103.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:book-to-screen adaptation;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">book-to-screen adaptation<\/a> that hits the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/streaming-news\/2026-netflix-movie-tv-show-release-dates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Netflix schedule;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Netflix schedule<\/a> later this week. I know it looks great from the trailer, and from what friends have said about the book, I\u2019ll probably really like it. One thing I <em>do<\/em> know from the trailer alone is that it will affect my dietary choices in the future. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll make me a full vegetarian, but it&#8217;s time to cut one type of seafood out of my diet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"An octopus in Remarkably Bright Creatures\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/s6qZY0W4faISKa24JndclA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cinemablend_388\/a316acd2a4eb4123f96d7ac3eacaba40\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Netflix<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">This Isn\u2019t Happening Just Because Of The Movie<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/netflixs-remarkably-bright-creatures-trailer-141418302.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:seen the trailer;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">seen the trailer<\/a> or read the book, you probably see where this is going. I think I\u2019m going to be cutting octopus out of my life as a food. I love octopus, but a few months ago, I really started to think about whether I should eat them or not. It seems a little hypocritical to choose to stop eating one animal but not others, but hey, I\u2019m a complicated person, and life is full of contradictions. One step at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This inner monologue with myself started after a conversation I had while on vacation in Mexico a couple of months ago. As my friends and I ordered tacos for lunch one day, including one with octopus, one of my friends simply mentioned he wouldn\u2019t be having one. He didn\u2019t make a big deal of it, but I still chided him and wondered aloud how anyone could turn down some tasty octopus. He said it wasn\u2019t that, it was because of the recent research that determined the molluscs may, in fact, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20220720-do-octopuses-feel-pain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:be sentient;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">be sentient<\/a>. That got me thinking, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Lewis Pullman and Sally Field smiling an looking down in Remarkably Bright Creatures\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/yXHCvl7l1LnxgtQY7ZbiTQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cinemablend_388\/685799f735686775b1591c34997c63f6\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Netflix<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">The Movie Is About An Intelligent Octopus<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I can\u2019t spoil anything that isn\u2019t in the trailer, because as I said, I\u2019ve never read the book and haven\u2019t seen the movie yet (though I will soon with my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/streaming\/articles\/netflix-subscription-plans-price-included-174717448.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Netflix subscription;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Netflix subscription<\/a>), but obviously it\u2019s a story from the point of view of an intelligent, sentient octopus. This is going to mess with my head. Or rather, I think it\u2019s going to settle the argument I\u2019ve been having with myself since that conversation over tacos. I shouldn\u2019t eat octopi. Let\u2019s be honest, it\u2019s probably best that I don\u2019t eat any animals, but again, one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lately, I\u2019ve been bombarded with reasons to give up eating meat. As I get older and encounter the issues that we all face with aging, especially heart issues that I\u2019ve developed, it seems obvious that the best diet for me would be plant-based. Another friend, a cardiologist who, like me, loves barbecue, pretty much told me straight up that we should all be vegetarians. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m ready to take that big of a leap, but I\u2019m getting closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I realize the hypocrisy in this. Choosing some animals over others because of their intelligence or sentience doesn\u2019t seem like the best way to determine what I eat and what I don\u2019t, but I\u2019m talking baby steps here. Who knows, maybe a year from now, I\u2019ll write a follow-up about how another movie on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/movies\/upcoming-movies-in-2026-new-movie-release-dates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:2026 movie schedule;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2026 movie schedule<\/a> got me to give up meat forever. It probably won\u2019t be <em>The Odyssey<\/em> or <em>Dune III<\/em>, but who knows?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Netflix I don\u2019t know much about Remarkably Bright Creatures, the book-to-screen adaptation that hits the Netflix schedule later this week. I know it looks great from the trailer, and from what friends have said about the book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2399364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23191,468425],"class_list":["post-2399363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-octopus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Im-No-Vegetarian-But-I-Already-Know-Remarkably-Bright-Creatures.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399365,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399363\/revisions\/2399365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}