Sunday, 9 January 2022

The fight to save horseshoe crabs from the biomedical industry

quote [ Horseshoe crab blood fetches up to $15,000 a pint among drug companies. ]

Woke up with blood on my pillow
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+4]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:03amGMT]

Comments

avid said @ 5:58am GMT on 10th Jan
It's really bizarre that we can't accept a synthetic replacement for yak hair so we just need to go on shaving yaks, even as the yaks are dying.
damnit said @ 9:54am GMT on 10th Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
It's for the same reason diamond companies keep insisting on "mined-diamonds are better" when they are virtually indistinguishable from lab-grown counterparts, which have fewer flaws and inclusions.

People care more about the story even if they can't tell the difference.
5th Earth said @ 4:08pm GMT on 10th Jan
I didn't know there was a synthetic version now. That's a big deal!

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