Yeah, don’t . . . . don’t eat sea turtles, okay.
Everybody? Like if you were sitting around rubbing your belly and licking your lips going “Mmmm mmmm wish I had a big sea turtle meat dish right now”, like - don’t. Okay?
Just leave the sea turtles alone. They got enough hassles.
Agreed! Leave the turtles alone!
And the cows. And the pigs. And the chickens. They all have enough problems.
Found the compassionate individual.
Their username is a clue.
The comment you’re replying to is already a reference to the username
And the humans
Everyone who downvoted this should know that pigs are raised in pens where they don’t have enough room to turn around and have to sleep and give birth in their own shit.
But hey, the narwhal bacons at midnight, right?
I raise my own pigs in large pens and they are treated well until slaughter.
What are your feelings on that?
That you are slaughtering them. So you aren’t testing them well at all. That’s just a thing you say so you can feel better about knowingly causing harm. Do you treat your cat well until you kill the for the pleasure of their body? Do you treat your dog well until someone pays you enough to kill it?
Being nice to a creature before murdering it doesn’t absolve the murder. Not causing harm in another is the standard for ethical behavior, not you going the extra mile.
I do a rudimentary arithmetic and geometry test before slaughter.
They’re not going to live forever in nature and I give them a very good life.
Plus all the great meats come from pig.
Bacon, ham, and all the other great porky bits.
They’re not going to live forever in nature and I give them a very good life.
Again. Does not absolve murder. Literally no one will live forever, but that’s not a reason why you can kill your neighbors.
Plus all the great meats come from pig.
Harming a creature for your own personal pleasure is the logic of dog fighting. You don’t need to watch that as entertainment just as you don’t need to kill for the enjoyment of food.
I feel like you using very selfish reasoning. Does assault, rape or murder become moral if I enjoy it enough?
Meat is great and I enjoy it.
I do not enjoy taking to you so good bye.
Ok, so there’s a risk of death. If I’m on a desert island then I’ll risk it, otherwise I’ll avoid.
Had to look up why sea turtle meat would kill, since it’s not reported in the article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonitoxism
Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar’s people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.
Second paragraph.
Typical NBC not embedding an entire wikipedia page in their article. smh my head.
I like the way the turtle in the thumbnail looks like “Yeah you fucking deserved that”
its just a turtle bro
I don’t wish anyone dead, really. But good, in a way. Leave the fucking turtles alone, we already make it hard enough for them. There’s zero reason to kill and eat a bunch.
Edit: Well, I think there’s zero reason. I have no clue what foods are available where they are or how plentiful they are. But since this is described as a “delicacy” I assume it’s a luxury that could easily be skipped.
There are three known species of salt-water sea turtles that can cause this type of a death (chelonitoxism) - two of them are Vulnerable, one of them is Endangered.
🎶 Toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles. Revenge in a half shell, turtle chowder!🎶
This is tragic.
While the Wikipedia page lists food poisonings from sea turtles as rare, it still feels like a Russian Roulette kind of meal.
Would you eat something knowing that there is a nonzero chance it might kill you (as in really off you, not just give you a bad night at the bathroom)?
I suppose the answer is a lot of people would, since the article itself mentioned another recent poisoning.
It reminds me of the blowfish which is also lethally poisonous if not handled by someone who’s certified to do so.
I suppose everything in life has a risk and I’ve done my share of reckless things, but rolling the dice on food never appealed to me.
Edit: fixed grammar
Yea a while ago 20 people died at a wedding in Mada after being served Turtle. Hawksbill or Green, not sure. I should find the news article but I’m too lazy and it’s late. Hawksbill is supposed to never be edible. Over here in Mayotte there are still poachers
I think we’re just kind of bad at evaluating risks of a relatively low order. In the US, E coli kills some 3000 people a year, and most of us have exposure to that risk. It might just be that people don’t see much of a difference between chances in the range of, say, 0.1% and 0.00001% of serious illness.
I wouldn’t eat something that could kill me, but I def will ingest something like that. But hey that’s just me.
if not handled by someone who’s certified to do so.
Just wanna say, you can be uncertified and handle it properly and certified while handling it improperly.
Yeah let’s eat this animal that consumes jellyfish like they’re tictacs…
Do… you have a Tic-Tac problem?
It’s not a 'problem ’ and I can totally stop anytime!
I just decided not to stop right now.
Darwin smiles down on us
The saddest is that it’s children who probably had no clue and no way of deciding.
Kill from the Grave
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A lesson to a bunch of dumb tourists.
Eight children and an adult died
Eight children and an adult died
