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Post by voice on Aug 14, 2019 15:31:57 GMT
What a river piss, not really sure why the snowflakes on whathefuckiswrongwithme are so triggered by a scientific paper, but the juvenile sniping is like reading a badly written 6th form rant
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Post by rick49 on Aug 27, 2019 22:12:59 GMT
The Blood of the Crab"Horseshoe Crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel, and biomedical companies are bleeding thousands of crabs and throwing them back in the ocean." "Components of this crab blood have a unique and invaluable talent for finding infection, and that has driven up an insatiable demand." "But that demand cannot climb forever. There's a growing concern among scientists that the biomedical industry's bleeding of these crabs may be endangering a creature that's been around since dinosaur days." "There are currently no quotas on how many crabs one can bleed because biomedical laboratories drain only a third of the crab's blood ("only" a third?), then put them back into the water, alive. But no one really knows what happens to the crabs once they're slipped back into the sea. Do they survive? Are they ever the same?" www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/?utm_source=pocket-newtabHope they find a better way because their numbers are plummeting and we are driving them towards extinction.
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Post by hammerhead on Aug 27, 2019 22:21:13 GMT
Cheers rick, interesting read.
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Post by rick49 on Aug 28, 2019 8:25:38 GMT
Thanks. When a human donates blood, about 8% is taken. And the bio med labs are taking 33% of the crabs blood. Little wonder that they are dying off.
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Post by rick49 on Aug 28, 2019 8:34:04 GMT
Here's some good news. The bleeding practice may be coming to an end. "Bleeding may also prevent female horseshoe crabs from being able to spawn or decrease the number of eggs they are able to lay. Up to 30% of an individual's blood is removed, according to the biomedical industry, and the horseshoe crabs spend between one and three days away from the ocean before being returned. Some scientists are skeptical that certain companies return their horseshoe crabs to the ocean at all, instead suspecting them of selling the horseshoe crabs as fishing bait." "The harvesting of horseshoe crab blood in the pharmaceutical industry is in decline. In 1986, Kyushu University researchers discovered that the same test could be achieved by using isolated Limulus clotting factor C (rFC), an enzyme found in LAL, as by using LAL itself.[42] Jeak Ling Ding, a National University of Singapore researcher, patented a process for manufacturing rFC; on 8 May 2003, synthetic isolated rFC made via her patented process was put for sale for the first time.[43] Industry at first took little interest in the new product, however, as it was patent-encumbered, not yet approved by regulators, and sold by a single manufacturer, Lonza Group. In 2013, however, Hyglos GmbH also began manufacturing its own rFC product. This, combined with the acceptance of rFC by European regulators, the comparable cost between LAL and rFC, and support from Eli Lilly and Company, which has committed to use rFC in lieu of LAL, is projected to all but end the practice of blood harvesting from horseshoe crabs." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab#Harvest_for_blood |
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Post by rick49 on Sept 21, 2019 13:08:16 GMT
So it's not just my imagination. N America's Bird Population Has Declined by 30M Since 1970"In just 50 years bird populations in the U.S. and Canada have declined by almost 30% and scientists are worried this could mean an impending biodiversity crisis." www.newsmax.com/thewire/birds-decline-northamerica/2019/09/20/id/933639/Hardly see or hear birds anymore, and I live in a rural area. |
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Post by rick49 on Sept 5, 2020 0:02:04 GMT
b**tards. Two live export ships have capsized at sea in the past year, destroying animal and human liveswww.animalsaustralia.org/features/two-live-export-ships-past-year-capsized-sea-destroying-animal-human-lives.php"This is the nature of the global live animal export trade. At 'best', animals are confined in cramped and stressful conditions, living in their own excrement for days and weeks on end. At 'worst', all those on board — people and animals — are at the mercy of climatic extremes; be it heat, storms or high seas." "In fact, a live export ship carrying Australian dairy cows was recently in the same, typhoon-affected region at the centre of this latest tragedy. That ship may have stayed upright, but the experience of these animals on board during rough, high seas would have been terrible. And the risk of injury for dairy cows at sea is only exacerbated because of their long legs and weight distribution. Then imagine ... also being pregnant." "And there is nothing more vulnerable than an animal on a live export ship in the middle of the open ocean ... especially when things go terribly wrong: |
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Post by rick49 on Nov 22, 2020 1:29:11 GMT
Plant evolves to become less visible to humans"A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible to humans, new research shows." "Scientists found that Fritillaria delavayi plants, which live on rocky slopes of China’s Hengduan mountains, match their backgrounds most closely in areas where they are heavily harvested." "This suggests humans are “driving” evolution of this species into new colour forms because better-camouflaged plants have a higher chance of survival." wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/21/plant-evolves-to-become-less-visible-to-humans/
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