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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

STOP BLEEDING HORSESHOE CRABS TO DEATH

Thousands of defenseless horseshoe crabs are being brutally drained of their blood in record numbers for the biomedical industry — with news detailing numerous violations of harvesting permits and minimal welfare practices.

Five bleeding companies drained a record-breaking 700,000 crabs of their blood in 2021 — with workers stabbing the animals in the heart and then bleeding out up to half of their blood to manufacture LAL,

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

a substance used to test for bacterial contamination.

The tortured crabs then are sold as bait or dropped back into the ocean — where many of them reportedly can no longer breed and where up to 30 percent of them die prolonged deaths caused from weakness or an inability to protect themselves due to damage from rough handling.

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https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi