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Okay, I know people as a general rule tend to not care about invertebrates as much as cute, fuzzy mammals, but this is a must-read if you care about animal welfare. The short version is that horseshoe crab blood has been used for decades in medicine as a way to test whether something is truly sterile; the blood clots in the presence of bacteria. Since then millions of horseshoe crabs have been captured and drained of blood, even though a synthetic alternative was developed a few years ago.
They go through a pretty brutal experience in the process. They're caught by fishermen who often throw them by their tails into a pile in the open air, and they're then trucked to a bleeding facility where they're strapped down and their blood is removed with needles jabbed directly into their hearts. Over half their blood may be taken, after which they're supposed to be returned to the ocean. However, it's likely many of them never make it back, instead turned into fish bait and sold by the same fishermen who caught them in the first place.
Apart from the fact that this is a horrific thing to put any animal through, the attrition due to fatalities has put a serious dent in horseshoe crab numbers. This is compounded by massive habitat loss, pollution, and the capture of horseshoe crabs as food, particularly as the females of one species are considered a delicacy. And other animals that rely on horseshoe crabs are suffering, too. The American rufa subspecies of the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, is critically endangered as the horseshoe crab eggs it must have in order to successfully complete migration have become increasingly scarce, and it is likely the bird will become extinct if trends continue.
While there are guidelines for medical horseshoe crab harvest, they're considered optional. The few laws that exist are poorly enforced. Short of a complete ban on horseshoe crab blood in favor of the synthetic alternative, these animals are in very real danger of going extinct after a history spanning over 400 million years on this planet.
Thankfully, this article is not the first to bring forth the issues surrounding horseshoe crab harvest. Here are a few resources for further information and action (US based, though horseshoe crabs are threatened throughout their entire range):
Horseshoe Crab Conservation Network - https://horseshoecrab.org/conservation/
Wetlands Institute - https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conservation/horseshoe-crab-conservation/
Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition - https://hscrabrecovery.org/
#animal welfare#animal cruelty#cw animal cruelty#animal suffering#horseshoe crabs#invertebrates#wildlife#animals#environment#conservation#endangered species#extinction#nature#medicine#science#scicomm#science communication
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hey uh @hermitcrimes so i know it's only the first episode of hermitcraft s10 but we already have a SEVERE ethics code violation on our hands, perpetrated by none other than DocM77
(i'm putting this under a cut because tumblr autoplays videos and well. if you are even mildly distressed by Extremely Questionable Ethics relating to non-player creatures in video games then this will definitely upset you)
clip source: Hermitcraft Season 10 Episode 1 by docm77, uploaded on Feb. 3rd 2024, timestamp 2:33:00
what, and i cannot possibly overstate this enough, THE FUCK.
#amys' tag#hermitcraft#mcyt#hermitcraft 10#undescribed#animal cruelty#cw animal cruelty#<- jic because. well. I mean.
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⚠️ Hey ⚠️
If you’re planning on going to the new Guardians of the Galaxy, please be aware that a MASSIVE portion of the film, easily half, is a depiction of pretty brutal animal testing, body horror, and animal mutilation. It’s a huge theme of the film, and it’s not pulling punches.
The first two films were fairly kid friendly, but this one is very out of genre of any Marvel film, and I would recommend double checking before bringing young children.
#I’m not faint of stomach but I was squirming#guardians of the galaxy#cw animal abuse#cw body horror#cw animal cruelty
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Found this beautiful lady in the woods after taking care of some murfree broods.
The broods already disgust me in every way with how they treat people, but seeing how they treat their horses is just the cherry on top. You can't even tell that this poor horse is even a blanket appaloosa because she'd been abused so much, I honestly wish I had more stable room so I could rehabilitate them all.
#I deliberately didn't take closer pictures because you can see her raw bones on her legs and knees#its horrible and I don't think she's in any riding condition so I'm letting her live in the stables to rest#her name is twix#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick squeaks#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#cw animal cruelty
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An Israeli settler stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery next to Al-Aqsa mosque and put a severed donkey head among the Palestinian graves
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Neuralink reportedly killed at least a dozen monkeys during the animal testing of the implants. Despite this, Musk has announced that Neuralink is ready to begin human trials.
source 1 (content warning for graphic descriptions of animal injury and death)
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#destiel meme#destiel meme news#united states#us news#news#tw death#tw animal death#tw animal abuse#tw animal cruelty#elon musk#fuck elon musk#neuralink#i'm gonna put one in his fucking head see how he fucking likes it when his brain swells and the infection is so severe he goes septic#and dies#cw animal death#cw animal cruelty#elongated muskrat#i hate him
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I think about this fic a lot. It’s probably one of my favorites from jules’ and the au means a lot to me :)
#goodtimeswithscar#felili art#theres more content warnings than tags💀#cw gore#cw animal death#cw animal cruelty#cw animal harm
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Does that pig that Angel owns still exist in this rewrite
ABSOLUTELY. Fat Nuggets is a requirement always. I have changed how he got him from canon but it’s a little bit the same?
In canon—I don’t know why they changed it to this—Valentino gave Angel Fat Nuggets and then they gave us no more substance than that. Prior to this Angel supposedly found him behind a grocery store or something which I like a lot more so Ive somewhat combined the two so instead of just one or the other, Valentino still offered Fat Nuggets to Angel but he wasn’t really looking for a pet at the time so he declined which resulted in Valentino throwing Fat Nuggets out behind a dumpster somewhere. Later on in the day Angel ended up passing said dumpster after getting some things at the store and noticed him again and decided to take Fat Nuggets in anyway since originally he assumed Valentino would’ve just given him to someone else instead of throwing him on the street.
This is also somewhere in the 4-5 year gap after Angel made his contract so during this time Valentino was starting to become more abusive which made Angel sort of sympathise with a pig in a dumpster since that was basically how he’d been getting treated recently as well.
Later on I’ll make a post on how contracts work and all that junk but today just the pig
#raimble#hazbin critical#hazbin hotel criticism#hazbin hotel critical#angel dust#hazbin angel dust#hazbin angel#angel dust hazbin#anti vivziepop#angel dust hazbin hotel#angel dust and fat nuggets#hazbin fat nuggets#hazbin hotel fat nuggets#fat nuggets hazbin#fat nuggets hazbin hotel#fat nuggets#hazbin hotel rework#hazbin hotel rewrite#tw abuse#cw abuse#tw animal cruelty#cw animal cruelty#tw valentino#cw valentino#hazbin hotel
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Addams! AU snippet 2: 'Lab'
FULL CREDIT TO WRITER NewFallenLeaves ON A03! SHE IS THE BIGGEST SUPPORTER OF THIS AU, AND IS INCREDIBLY TALENTED AND SWEET. GIVE HER A COMMENT, KUDO, SHARE, WHATEVER. MAKE HER DAY JUST A BIT BETTER, SHE DESERVES ALL THE LOVE!
This specific snippet had actually been inspired by some art! Im pretty sure I've posted it before, but might as well also include it too! (It is pretty old, forgive meeeee LOL)
Full snippet below the cut! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Donnie had the setup exactly how he wanted.
The rat specimen was pinned to the exam table, paws impaled and spread. Its belly fur was scraped clear and the bloated, pink flesh exposed. It had died in the trap before Donnie could get to it (thank you, Mikey, for setting the couch on fire again and delaying him.) So no vivisection. But that was fine, dissection was the next best thing. Especially of a pregnant rat, oh, giddy grin, he was going to get a whole clutter of partially-developed babies to experiment on! And with Mikey and Raph off in the tunnels and Leo traipsing around the Hidden City somewhere, Donnie finally had a quiet afternoon to himself.
He intended to make the most of it.
Swiveling the lamp so the lighting beamed down on the specimen, he curled his fingers in anticipation. The mechanical scalpel joint lined up just at the top of the rat’s throat, where he could cut a straight line to open the abdomen–
“Donnieeeeeeeeee!”
Leo burst through the double doors. He waltzed across the room and flung himself over the dissection table, swooning like a lady in the throes of a fainting spell.
“Wha–” Donnie grabbed for his tray of needles and surgical knives before it upended and strewed across the floor. “Nardo! You’re squishing my specimen!”
Leo fixed him with a dreamy, half-lidded gaze. “I just met somebody.”
Donnie glowered. This was the reason Leo had barged into his lab? To annoy him with ceaseless gushing over some new simpleton he’d decided to pursue?
“You’ll never believe it,” said Leo. “I rescued him instead of mugged him.”
Donnie shook the table. “Didn’t you hear me? Get off.”
“He was cornered. By two smelly thugs. They had these adorable little switch knives, trying to be all intimidating. Donnie, I’m telling you, it would have been pathetic that he got himself hemmed in like that, if his cowering wasn’t so adorable.”
“Nardo…”
“You should have seen how cute his face was, all covered in blood!” Leo kicked his feet. “Oh, I couldn’t help myself. Don’t worry, don’t worry, you’ll be so proud of me, I only licked him a little–”
“I don’t have time for this–”
“--so I’m sure he knows I’m a gentleman. Oh, it was such a good thing I was there, those brutes were so unsophisticated, they wouldn’t have done anything right–”
“Oh my god would you just shut up!” Donnie dragged his hands down his face, opening a sliver on his cheek as the scalpel on his finger caught flesh. “What level of disinterest and indignation do I need to achieve before you get it through your addled brain? I do not care.”
Leo’s smirk never wavered. He held up his hand, smudged deep with red, and waggled his fingers. “Wanna sample?”
Donnie opened his mouth to argue, then hesitated. He peered a little closer at the smear of not-yet-coagulated blood. “...it was a yokai?”
“Mmm-hmmmm.”
“What type?”
“One you don’t have any blood work for yet.” Leo’s grin widened. “Rabbit. Or bunny. If there’s a difference.”
The swab was in Donnie’s hand before he realized he’d made the decision to reach for one. He soaked up a dribble from Leo’s wrist and snagged a clean Petri dish. “Of course there’s no difference, why do you think the combination term ‘bunny rabbit’ exists? It’s a hare that comes from another genus. And what do you want, huh? You don’t just saunter in here and offer me free DNA for my trials for nothing.”
“Can’t I help my dear brother with his evil lab experiments out of the goodness of my heart?”
“As if you have one.”
Leo dissolved into giggles.
Donnie capped the dish and pulled a fresh label from the drawer. “So? Spill. What am I beholden to you for after this oh-so-generous and selfless donation?”
“Oh, you know. Age, blood type, zodiac sign, debilitating allergies or hypersensitivities. Aaaand if you happen to match those to any particular medical records and it leads to a place of employment or a home address…”
“Don’t you have enough stalking victims already?”
Leo hopped off the metal slab and pirouetted his way out the door. “No such thing.”
#addams! tmnt au#rottmnt au#rottmnt#leo rottmnt#rottmnt donnie#cw dissection#cw animal cruelty#cw animal death#cw pregnancy mention#tmnt au#rottmnt fic#addams! leosagi#NewFallenLeaves#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt fanfiction#rottmnt art
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St. Paddies day in Boston can be rough. I recognize the importance of traditions like this as a community building thing, I understand that in this atomized society of ours we have fewer and fewer of these communal events to hang our hats on, I do. And for these reasons, I’m loathe to be a killjoy about it. But the fact remains that The Running Of The Snakes is just completely incompatible with Boston’s contemporary car culture. It kind of made sense when the city was still an island, and it’s never been the worst if you’re on foot because they’re not very fast and the terrain can work in your favor depending on where you are in the city. But if you’re commuting? Total shitshow. Citywide meat grinder If they don’t get it over with before 5 pm, which of course they never fucking do. Thousands and thousands of snakes all over the road and only one direction your car can possibly go. And if you go over them perpendicular, you know, you can live with that- it’s like chopping a sausage, one or two points of contact, quick and clean. But if by unfortunate coincidence the tires line up with one lengthwise it’s like stomping on a tube of toothpaste. If you’re going really fast there can be collateral on that. While I was typing this I accidentally ricocheted a Burmese python vertebra off a lamp post and creamed a bike courier. The Mayor’s gotta do something. She’s gotta put her foot down
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i am slowly getting more and more annoyed with mr zeppeli himself i ate my fingers as i read your response to my ask AJAJHSUSH. thank you so much your highness i am burning my whole house rn.
actually, which yanderes do you think would be the most ANNOYING. like, not violent or anything but just plain annoying. the kind of people that make you wanna tear your hair out or commit a slow and painful murder.
(inspired heavily by narancia because i have a feeling he would be the most annoying little shit to deal with)
-🌸 anon
What an adorable thing you are. Don’t bite too hard, it’ll hinder your ability to compliment me.
Oh, God. Most annoying to me, personally? Not in any order in particular, I feel as if this one would change depending on my mood:
Bruno hovers too much, and he tends to both infantilize and put a lot of responsibility on his darling. He expects his darling to parent Narancia but won’t let them handle a knife by themself. I’m doing a character study on him right now, so that’s all I’ll say, but just know that he is God’s punishment for whatever you did in a past life to deserve him.
Narancia is annoying- he’s a young guy who never got taught how to deep clean, spends his free time on his pull up bar, expects you to cook for him since he’s literally never been tasked with it, whines when you try to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of your six hours minimum long cuddling session, doesn’t know how to properly take care of an entire human being so just throws junk food at you and hopes you don’t starve, the list goes on. He loves you, he really does, he just doesn’t know what he’s doing. For someone as prissy as myself, I would die the first day. He doesn’t understand why I put those rollers in my hair- he just watched me straighten it, doesn’t that cancel out??? That’s stupid, oh, and another thing, what’s the point of owning five different versions of the same color of nail polish? It’s all red! Just have one, that isn’t crazy expensive! On top of Narancia being the worst roommate ever- he’s very irritable, and doesn’t really have a problem pulling a knife on you to get what he wants. He’s not as quick to snap as people think, but that doesn’t mean he won’t. Show signs of liking something more than him and he’ll maul it.
It’s hard to set Cioccolata and Secco away from each other, they’re basically inseparable, but Cioccolata is capable of using logic, and Secco is not. If you’re on the ground in pain, obviously you’re going to have a hard time answering the little puppy’s questions. Secco doesn’t understand why you won’t play with him- he’s shoving his toy right in front of you, are you blind?? Play! With! Him! Throw it, play tug of war, SOMETHING, COME ON. There’s an interesting dynamic depending on who exactly you’re intended for- Cioccolata, Secco, or both. Let’s just talk about Secco alone, since Cioccolata isn’t annoying, he’s just a bit too affectionate sometimes. Secco’s forgetful, rude, jumps to conclusions, and you don’t even know what he looks like since he’s always wearing that bitch suit-esque thing. He nudges you to throw his toy- he probably thinks of you as human rather than another dog, and doesn’t understand why you aren’t behaving like Cioccolata does. If you were Cioccolata’s darling alone, or a shared darling, he’d probably think of you as another dog. But he was here first, so he’s got dibs on the good dog bed, AND cioccolata’s lap. As if you’d want that. Secco begs and begs and begs for you to give him as much attention as you possibly can- and somehow, you’re never doing it right. It’s like talking to a child who has surpassed the ‘Why?’ stage and has moved on to greater conquests- annoying you so badly that you ask Cioccolata if it’s fine to have a sip of his ‘not for dogs’ drink. Or two. Or three. Or the entire bottle.
Rohan doesn’t ever shut the fuck up. He quite literally always has something to say, despite wanting to “observe.” He read an article this morning, let’s go visit the place it mentioned even though it’s a three hour train ride and supposed to rain for the rest of the week. He always wants to go explore- even when he promised that you could both stay home today and do something you want to do. It doesn’t make sense to Rohan- why wouldn’t you want to go see what the world has to offer? Probably because this is the fourth temple he’s wanted to visit this week and you don’t feel like going up two hundred stairs. (If his darling cannot walk, he makes sure it’s accessible beforehand. You’re not getting out of coming with him.) Rohan’s big on healthy living, and he feels a sense of superiority for eating right, and working out very consistently. He wants his darling to be perfectly well as well- how can he push you to your limits if you’re not at your best? You’d probably sleep better if he stopped talking for three hours past his initial ‘goodnight.’
Hazamada… is… he’s certainly a character! The literal only reason why he isn’t forcing himself upon his darling is because he’s too much of a coward- and that’s not my interpretation, that’s canon. His hobbies include bullying kittens and small animals, not showering, collecting manga, stalking idols, and tennis! Isn’t that nice, he does sports, he’s only a basement dweller half of the time. It isn’t even somewhat attractive when he tries to get it on with his darling, he’s like a dog humping your leg. He’s the type to call you a stupid bitch because you politely suggested he should wear deodorant before he hits on you. He’s canonically an exhibitionist- imagine sitting in class and looking over to check the clock and he’s just staring back at you while adjusting his pants. I’d switch schools.
#yandere rohan kishibe#yandere toshikazu hazamada#yandere narancia ghirga#yandere bruno bucciarati#cw noncon#cw animal cruelty#cw misogyny#🌸 anon#request granted
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Yass Gurl. Banish your sense of self so that you might be able to better adapt to an extremely hostile and ever changing environment. Slay Queen. Werk.
#arya stark#nymeria#asoiaf#asoiaf spoilers#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf fanart#got spoilers#cw blood#cw: gore#cw animal cruelty#cw animal abuse#your honor I just think that the little girls in this series should get to do unspeakable violence and get covered in blood more often#(me and jory threw rocks until she left) - my ass#do you know how much it takes to get a normal dog to stop following you? much less the literal physical embodiment of your soul?#give me the heart wrenching pov of arya watching nymeria crawl back to her again and again cause she’s a good well trained loyal girl
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Elysian Pool Cave, Van Horn Mansion, Braithwaite Tree, Serpent Mound - Roanoke Ridge/Scarlett Meadows
#why do you always find the creepiest shit in rdr2 when you play at night#that animal monster thing genuinely made me freeze for a solid 5 minutes#when I climbed up the house into the window I couldn't see what was in there until I was inside#it was awful#genuinely#jars of animals and body parts and diagrams all over the walls#I was so scared that it was going to move#the music stopped as soon as I went inside I was expecting to get jumped again#eugdghcgg#sorry guys#mick squeaks#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#liveblogging#cw animal cruelty#cw body horror
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CW: dehumanization, animal cruelty and use of animal skin treated in a cartoon setting + analysis of those acts.
Mad World
My neurodivergence ass had been having problems with the cartoon world on this specific topic, since a LOT of cartoon tend to fall in the ''sentient-anthro animal that also coexist with their not sentient counterpart'' situation, even making jokes about it, gods Bugs was pretty chill about the idea of being hunted in almost every episode.
It not that i don't like the jokes, even some of them make for some funny scenarios (like in Tom&Jerry, we're Tom would willfully swift between pets alike acts to human works if the situation ask for it), but it kinda bugs me in the ethical and social way of thinking.
I mean, see in CTCD we have a pretty clear example: Courage and MadDog are both dogs, but the differences both in anatomy and actitude speak A LOT about this.
Yeah, Courage is smart and acts basically like a human, but at the end of the day he's a pet; he wears a leash when go out with Muriel&Eustace, He can barely talk, he sleep on the flour/at his owners bed end and, in general, live a pet life and get treated like one not just by his owners, but by everybody else.
While MadDog could easily be a ganster inside a fursuit and i would buy it, the bastard even have a car and probably a (illegal) bussiness!
and the problem here is pretty clear: Courage was raised by humans that choose to treat him like a pet, and i can confirm this 'cause you can see that both Courage parents seems to act more human like (even speaking, but that was in the spanish dub, idk if in the original one they also had lines)
So i personally shared the concept that was show in We Bare Bears movie for this universe: that all animals are smarts enough to become part of society if they interact enough with humans to get to it, BUT if they're treated like their not sentient counterpart, they're going to stay like that.
kinda funny in the dark way, but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall this rant/analysis came 'cause i was thinking in how would Katz react to see a cat like Tom that act like a pet, then i when ''And how would Cajun react to a fox... Oh...'' and then i got sad and make the whole minicomic.
and also to take the sad out i make a joke about it, so have this too
#i really like to mix cartoon and real logic in my drawings#it help me satisfy the grown me with the taste of lil me#this is a minimize version of my whole analysis#'cause the original was#LONG#and i didn't want to take of the original comic#courage the cowardly dog#ctcd#ctcd katz#katz#ctcd cajun fox#cajun fox#spidersoup ship#analysis#cw animal cruelty#cw animal skin#nova say
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I’m not sharing the OP because it contained pics of the poor dogs that no one needs to see, but a fucking hunt in Devonshire has hunted so dangerously on the A30 that two of their hounds were killed on the road.
Passers-by rescued the poor dog that wasn’t killed on impact and got them to a vet, but their injuries were too severe.
The hunt apparently wasn’t even aware the poor dogs were missing when they were contacted by the vet practice.
They clearly have no care for the poor souls at all; no more than they do for the foxes and other native wild animals that are ripped apart for their amusement, or the people on the road who were endangered in the accidents.
Every time I think I couldn’t be more sickened by hunters, they do something else.
This is on the day before legislation meaning “XL bullies” - not a breed; a *type* of dog with no defined consistent markers, background, breeding or anything else - cannot be sold or placed by rescues, must be neutered and registered, and must be muzzled and cannot be walked off-lead without being killed goes into effect. Far too many blameless, sweet-natured dogs have already been killed; more will be.
A government that has happily weaponised the lives of trans people, disabled people and refugees of course has no problem causing the deaths of thousands of equally blameless dogs. The entire thing is an exercise in cruelty to get them votes from people who thrive on performative cruelty.
I am filled with sick fury today.
#fuck foxhunters#fuck the tories#fuck the xl bully ban#uk politics#cw animal abuse#cw animal cruelty#cw animal death
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