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Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding horseshoe crabs with little accountability
- downrightmike 3y agoProbably won't stop until they can't find any, like the snow crab harvest moratorium. Millions of years: No problem. A few decades with humans: brink of collapse.
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago>Family businesses used to own many of the smaller facilities in the earlier days of bleeding. Now, the industry is dominated by giant multinational firms, like a facility in Virginia owned by the Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm, and Charles River Laboratories, a publicly traded company based in Massachusetts that took over a local operation in South Carolina. "Negative sentiments around the depletion of a common resource are generally attributed toward the producer currently depleting the resource, as the resource measurably crashes. However, anti-social over consumption behaviors must begin prior to resource scarcity. Society generally overlooks hoarding behaviors that induce scarcity, despite these actions being wantonly anti-social. This is not a surprise, as information as to the state of any resource prior to its consumption is generally unknown, and we have developed very few social brakes on consumption in abundant periods."[1] So at what point did it become a problem? When did overconsumption start? Are we going to hold any of the people that started the problem accountable or are they all dead? [1]https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf
- aiscapehumanity 3y agoI recall seeing at least one article where an alternative, synthetic serum was seemingly rejected from approval by seemingly cronyist interplay between corpo-regulatory regimists. I should look it up again because it's been years, but there really should be bigger attempts at synthetic alternatives smh