For Hundreds of Years, Mandragora Officinarum (A Poisonous Plant) Was

For hundreds of years, Mandragora officinarum (a poisonous plant) was widely used for curing a variety of diseases. Today you can, however, find plenty of equally good or better synthetic medicines in your local drug store. Let us imagine, contrary to the historical facts, that some new technology had been introduced 20 years ago that we knew would kill all Mandragora plants. Would that have been of any concern to us if we knew that no sentient being would ever need the plant again for medical (or any other) purposes?

A) The answer to this question depends primarily on how much money we would have been willing to pay for preserving Mandragora.
B) The answer to this question depends primarily on how much happiness or well-being Mandragora created for us.
C) The answer to this question depends primarily on whether Mandragora was valuable in an intrinsic or instrumental sense.
D) The answer to this question depends primarily on whether Mandragora was valuable in a Kantian or utilitarian sense.