The excessive exploitation by humans means horseshoe crabs now are listed as “Moderately Depleted” on the IUCN’s Red List. Migratory birds who rely on horseshoe crab eggs, including the red knot and piping plover, also are disappearing at alarming rates.
Meanwhile, synthetic alternatives — which don’t involve a single drop of horseshoe crab blood — have been approved and are in use by several major pharmaceutical companies.
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No defenseless animal deserves to be drained of their blood while fully conscious and then be tossed aside, weakened and half alive. The cruelty must stop now.
Due to the decimation of the horseshoe crabs, conservationists in Delaware have pitched a proposal for strengthened protections for horseshoe crabs. The five states harboring the bleeding companies would do well to take note and follow suit.
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Sign the petition urging the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the legislators, governors, and natural resources departments of South Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to do all in their power to ban the brutal taking of horseshoe crabs for their blood or use as bait — including immediately nixing any proposals that will increase their exploitation or reduce protections within their natural habitats.
- #LadyFreeThinker
