• Ignisnex@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        It’s catch and release, not life long milking. Granted, the survival rate isn’t as high as I’d like (70-90% apparently), but I do also appreciate having safe injectable medicines. All things considered, with a species bias, I’d prefer dozens of humans live at the expense of a… Not crab. Unfortunate though it may be. I can’t also help but notice you’ve anthropomorphised them a bit. I’m certain these creatures respond to negative stimulus, but attributing fear and life long trauma seems to be giving their intelligence a bit of an unfounded boost.

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        8 months ago

        Honestly, of all the messed up shit we do with animals draining blood from a bunch of crabs for medical purposes seems like one of the less egregious ones.

      • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        they catch, “milk” and release them, most of them recover from it. (weaker ones tend to die tho, with survival rate of around 80%)