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Environmentalists petition New Jersey over horseshoe crab bloodletting 17%
By Zoë Read27%
8/7/2026, 2:30:47 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Negativity Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 35.4% saturation with 80 hits. Analysis detected 647 faulty-reasoning hits from 226 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25% and a BS Rank of 17% (25,555 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.60% of the article peer group.
Environmentalists are calling on regulators in New Jersey to take enforcement action against a biomedical company that they accuse of killing hundreds of horseshoe crabs.
The Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups last week petitioned the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to determine whether Limuli Laboratories’ horseshoe crab practices meet state harvesting regulations.
The nonprofit said the Cape May County biomedical company injures thousands of horseshoe crabs each year, and that hundreds perish, according to documents it received through a records request from the state.
The environmentalists said that New Jersey’s law requires horseshoe crabs to be released unharmed from the same waters in which they were collected.
“On paper, New Jersey is one of the best state protectors of horseshoe crabs, but look under the hood and you’ll find it’s actually allowing a company to kill and injure horseshoe crabs in huge numbers,” said Danny Waltz, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
“New Jersey must act quickly to fulfill the promise of its own laws and protect these highly imperiled animals and the endangered birds who depend on healthy crab populations.”
WHYY News called and emailed a number and address associated with Limuli Laboratories, but it’s not clear if the email address and phone number are still in use.
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