Attention vegans and vegetarians and animal lovers

If you’ve ever had an IV, a medical implant, or any injectable medication or vaccine in the past few decades, thank a horseshoe crab. The one with the helmet-shaped shell, blue blood, fourteen legs, and 10 eyes is being exploited for the ingredients in his bloodstream.

In the 1950s, they discovered that the blood of the western Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus ) will clot when exposed to certain bacteria, fungi, and…