• Ignisnex
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        51 year 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.

      • 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
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        11 year 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%)

      • voxel
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        31 year ago

        around 20% which is acceptable… i think?