a substance used to test for bacterial contamination.
The tortured crabs then are sold as bait or dropped back into the ocean β where many of them reportedly can no longer breed and where up to 30 percent of them die prolonged deaths caused from weakness or an inability to protect themselves due to damage from rough handling.
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