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  • molten@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzcan't stop won't stop
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    10 days ago

    When horseshoe crabs come up, I always try to mention that they are harvested (and usually killed) for their blood in the most unethical way possible. They basically pump it directly from their (version of) hearts, and as long as they’re “alive” when they throw them back in the water, it’s counted as ethical harvesting. Usually, they just die a few hours/days later from having their hearts punctured and much less blood available than they’d like.

    Also, their blood is wholly unnecessary for medical usage. Medical companies use the amebocyte lysate in their blood to detect endotoxins, but it’s pretty cheap and easy to synthesize amebocyte lysate in a lab without involving crabs. It is only being held back by the FDA because, before we could synthesize it, the blood made harvesters wealthy enough to lobby for the FDA to refuse approval of the synthetic version when it came along so they can keep pumping that blue gold. Feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong. I’m not an expert.












  • God. I’m intimately familiar with this shit. The real kicker? The people they’re trying to please don’t have any real feelings about trans people. They have a shitty community, a friend group, that will accept nearly worthless awful people just because they’ll agree to an ideology who’s central tenants are faux masculinity and how the members may seem like they’re broke/sexless/stupid/unmasculine/different but that’s for an outward societal reason. And now they’ll do anything to fix that fake reason and focus elsewhere. They’ll be lying and making excuses at first but community support emboldens you and they will really really begin to believe it. And now, guess what they have that they’ve never had? They’re cool in that community. And now that’s everything to them. They’d die to keep that social status because our old caveman brain says that being accepted by your tribe is important and being rejected is death. The rest explains itself.