Oh, look: your hungry, divergent, handmaid’s dystopias already exist …

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Anything you read in the dystopian genre is happening to nonhuman animals on Earth right now, and is, in fact, worse than anything any “imaginative” author can write. Look at that picture above. Although those crab victims are being exploited for research, since ALL animal exploitation is related and fuels other forms of animal exploitation, your cheese addiction enables crab imprisonment enables trophy hunting enables cat and dog consumption.

I once was told that the “scientists” who conduct research do so according to a “strict guideline of ethics”. Well, lets talk about that for a moment. In the US, approximately 100,000,000 animals are violated for testing/research yearly, and since approximately 95% of them are NOT “protected” by the Animal Welfare Act, their suffering is not even required to be reported.

Please note the below two images from the USDA Research Facility Annual Usage Summary Report

Under Column E (animals used in research / pain involved / no pain relief drugs administered) you’ll see animals who are “protected” by the Animal Welfare Act, but who must experience intentional pain nonetheless.

(Again, since only the animals “protected” by the meaningless Animal Welfare Act/AWA are reported, the 95% specifically excluded from the AWA and therefore NOT REQUIRED to be reported, “gift” all those “ethical researchers” zero accountability.)

So as I said in response, I’m not confident that people who intentionally inflict pain on animals, and who then intentionally restrict pain relief, and then who violently kill those same animals, have a really firm grasp of “ethics”.

Same with people who kill and consume animals, animals who are ALSO forced to suffer violation, pain, and unwilling/violent death.

So if you care about horseshoe crabs and the dystopia they are forced to exist in, maybe you should care about the animals you effortlessly sentence to the same disturbing hell. And even if you don’t care about horseshoe crabs, you still have no right to inflict animal suffering on ANY animal regardless of human-designed and human-biased words meant to suggest it’s “ethical”, “humane”, “godly”, “healthy”, “welfare’ing”.

And do take note: opposing using nonhuman animals for human animal research is NOT equivalent to being in favor of human suffering. Remember thalidomide and also, despite saccharin causing cancer in nonhuman animals, you can still legally buy and consume it regardless of all that “research” by “ethical scientists” who forced animals to violently suffer and then die from saccharin-caused cancer.

Imagine considering your species the “intellectually/morally superior” one and then committing these atrocities on completely different ones in the name of “intelligence” and “science” and according to “ethics”: if nonhuman animals are biologically similar enough to human animals to legitimatize testing/researching on them, then nonhuman animals are similar enough to human animals to make testing/researching on them unethical. Be the brain trust you boast to be and NOT violently harm other species trying to figure out stuff for your own.

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USDA Research Facility Annual Usage Summary Report

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Source NPR

By Chiara Eisner

Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability

Horseshoe crabs used to be everywhere. Millions of years before dinosaurs roamed the planet, each spring, the hard-shelled creatures gathered to mate in massive mounds along the beaches of the Atlantic coast. Later, migratory shorebirds like the robin-size red knot learned to fly up from South America to join them for a feast. The crabs’ eggs gave the birds the energy they needed to keep flying north to breed in the Arctic.

But humans began to want something from the crabs, too — their blood. In the 1960s, scientists discovered that the sky blue blood inside horseshoe crabs would clot when it detected bacterial toxins. Vaccines, drugs and medical devices have to be sterile before they’re put inside people. A better toxin-detection system meant less contamination risk for patients, so fishermen soon started collecting and selling the prehistoric animals to be bled.

A synthetic alternative was later invented and has since been approved in Europe as an equivalent to the ingredient that requires horseshoe crabs. But in the U.S., the blood harvest isn’t shrinking. It’s growing. Five companies along the East Coast — with operations in South Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland — drained over 700,000 crabs in 2021. That’s more than any other year since officials started keeping track in 2004. Since then, the number of crabs bled by the industry has more than doubled. At least 80 million tests are performed each year around the world using the blood-derived ingredient.

As the industry has expanded, coast-wide regulation has been limited and the companies have become increasingly secretive. Records obtained by NPR indicate that in some states, fishermen paid by the bleeding companies have handled crabs in ways that research has shown to cause harm or have violated harvest laws without punishment. Meanwhile, the process of approving the alternative in the U.S. has stalled even as the number of birds in the sky has plummeted…

Depending on which state they’re harvested in, the crabs are either taken by hand from the beaches or pulled up from the bottom of the ocean with nets. Hundreds are piled on top of each other in boats, loaded into trucks and delivered to bleeding facilities. There, lab technicians pierce the crabs through their hearts and drain them alive, sometimes for eight minutes, which can deplete them of more than half their volume of blue blood. In Massachusetts, some of the bled crabs are then sold to be killed and used as bait. In states like South Carolina and New Jersey, the animals are delivered back to the fishermen, who return them to the ocean…

That makes the bleeding business unique among the industries it straddles. It’s an unusual fishery, because the animals are not sold to be eaten. It’s an atypical utilization of animals in medicine, since the crabs are not bled in the research stage, and they’re not warm-blooded. They’re not even crustaceans — horseshoe crabs are more closely related to scorpions than they are to snow crabs.

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Here we species Homo sapiens sit
Self important with all our techosh*t
But barbaric we remain
And that is it

Karen Lyons Kalmenson