Why horseshoe crabs are protected animals in China and can be eaten casually in Thailand?

Horseshoe crabs, also known as "beasts who have been in prison", are protected animals in China, but they can be eaten casually in Thailand. Limulus is a crustacean that looks like a crab, so it is also called horseshoe crab. Friends who grew up by the sea should be no strangers to him. Every year from April to August, that is, the late breeding season, as long as you go to the seaside at night, you can see many people get together to dig holes and lay eggs. Visitors who are not familiar with it may be shocked because this deer looks like an alien creature. They carry a backyard shell or a slender mouse tail, and their hind limbs with six pairs of abdominal limbs crawl very fast and may disappear in the blink of an eye. I have to say, although it looks strange, in fact, human beings are the oldest creatures on the earth. Animals of the same age as horseshoe crabs have changed their faces or disappeared, and only it has survived to this day. Therefore, horseshoe crabs are also called the living fossils of the earth by scientists.

It is understood that the blood of horseshoe crab is blue. Scientists have extracted a substance from its blood. Like a detective, this substance can quickly detect whether human tissues contain bacteria, and even detect whether drugs and food are infected by toxins. Later, scientists made the substance into a detection solution and named it limulus reagent. It must be said that this invention is of great help to human scientific research, but it is a disaster to the horseshoe crab family. After that, people frantically caught wild animals, but later they were sent to the laboratory to draw blood. When people came to their senses, they found that the number of horseshoe crabs dropped like a cliff. I used to see a pile on the beach, but now two or three piles are good. Only then did everyone realize that horseshoe crab seems to be an endangered animal. Therefore, people began to take remedial measures to save these family members as much as possible. Today, China has listed China as a national second-class protected animal, and Yuanwei and Nanfang as provincial key protected animals. It can be seen that China has a strong protection for the future.

However, eating in Thailand is not illegal. Locals often bake and stir-fry and eat, which makes people curious. Can they really eat it in the future? Why not protect horseshoe crabs? First of all, I want to remind you, why can horseshoe crab survive for so long? First, its reproductive ability is not bad, and second, its meat quality is not good and poisonous. The meat of horseshoe crab contains a non-specific protein sensitizer, which is easy to cause allergy, poisoning and shock after eating. People who are in poor health may be life-threatening if they eat thick meat. Therefore, when traveling to Thailand, try not to be curious and order something on the roadside. If something happens, the consequences will be unimaginable. Thai people think horseshoe crab is a kind of seafood, so locals often roast it and mix its meat with eggs. It is said that it tastes like crab roe, but the meat is thick and heavy, which is unacceptable to people who don't eat it often. But the locals are used to it, so they eat it from time to time.