Comment on Blueberry milkshakes

• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s literally life. Unless you’re a plant, you’re killing things to eat.

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  • MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And if you’re a plant, either you’re eating things that were already killed and/or outright killing other plants for their blood or to take their sunlight. And that’s if you don’t mention carnivorous plants which, ik eat animals

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kinda? I think it’s more accurate to say that the nutrients they need from the soil are from decomposed dead things. Competition for sunlight is a real thing, but I’m not sure if that counts. I suppose it does, since it’s all about survival. Same would go for species that have fights with themselves.

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know it sucks, but they play an invaluable role in modern medicine, I hope that we can find an alternative to using them, but AFAIK there is nothing that works in the same manner yet.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They may have a substitute in the pipeline

    www.freethink.com/…/horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood

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    • learningduck@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      discovered that a molecule in LAL called factor C was responsible for its clotting action. Researchers genetically modified the guts of insects—who belong to the same phylum as horseshoe

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh that is excellent news! I was unaware!

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• baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am.

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