• techingtenor
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    1 year ago

    Its not surprising. I used to work at one of these places and they would laugh at any viable alternative acting like it would never have a chance. They also were well aware of the fact that some of their distributors illegally kill the returned horshoe crabs and turn them into fertilizer. So any claims that they’re not hurting the horshoe crabs are bullshit. They’ve just offloaded the hurt to contractors who are 50/50 on actually trying to protect the crabs and just using them as bait. Even if they didn’t do that, I’ve always been suspect that the crabs do great in the wild after losing 60% of their blood.

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      1 year ago

      Considering that the article itself states that an estimated 30% of horseshoe crabs die during the procedure, before even accounting for post-release deaths due to any trauma, I think you might be onto something.

      Who would’ve known draining ~60% of a horseshoe crab’s blood would cause some of them to become fucked up. If you drained 60% of a person’s blood, I’d reckon the same thing would happen.