Every year, five companies capture thousands of horseshoe crabs,
drain the animals of up to 30% of their blood, and release them back
into the wild. It's the first step in the production of a chemical used
to make sure any injection you've ever received (from vaccines to pain
killers) is free of potentially life-threatening bacteria. At The
Atlantic,
Alexis Madrigal looks at the impact the harvest has on horseshoe crabs and what might happen to the crabs if and when we come up with a synthetic substitute.
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