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Animals with economic value rarely go extinct. Just look at cows, pigs, and chickens.

It’s the ones that don’t have value that are at risk.

> Animals with economic value rarely go extinct

What about mammoth, passenger pidgeon, great auk, quagga, parakeet, shark, horseshoe crab, tuna, whale ... the list goes on and on

Or they'll be domesticated.

And they will be if it's feasible and there is a demand. I wonder how difficult it would be to farm-raise them. We do it with many varieties of fish.

This was my first thought as well. As soon as the supplements industry gets hold of this info...so long sea squirts.

Hello huge tanks raising sea squirts in easy to harvest conditions.

There are already plasmalogen supplements on the market.

There is no compound in nature that we cannot synthesize in a lab, but sometimes it is more expensive than harvesting it from plants/animals.