Cruelty at Walmart

[CTReptileRescue]

wow, never woulda expected that from wal-mart. I've got a lot of alternatives around here so I'll boycott em. Why anyone would eat a turtle is beyond me. And don't get me started on people that eat snakes, or skin them. Cuz I want to punch em all right in the face!

I agree with you about why anyone would want to eat a turtle.
But you have to remember their are folks around the world who probably wonder why we eat and skin cows.
It's not an easy situation, to say the least.
Rusty

[frankykeno]

Doesn't surprise me at all that Wal-Mart would do what they need to do in the chase for the almighty buck...that's corporate America at it's very best folks.

As far as the cultural aspects of using turtles for meat, personally if they specifically bred certain turtles for meat production I wouldn't have a problem with it. If they are randomly using various species of turtles that are or will become endangered, then that's just plain wrong.

I've worked in a turkey production facility. Even though it was done to very high and humane standards, the simple fact is most of us don't want to know where the Thanksgiving bird comes from other than wrapped in plastic in the meat section of our local grocery store.

[JLC]

I've worked in a turkey production facility. Even though it was done to very high and humane standards, the simple fact is most of us don't want to know where the Thanksgiving bird comes from other than wrapped in plastic in the meat section of our local grocery store.

Very true. Or our beef or pork or any other meat. I actually have a lot of respect for hunters and/or farmers who butcher and prepare their own meat. I had to pick feathers out of a turkey at Thanksgiving once, and I haven't enjoyed a turkey dinner since.

And I don't think its right to judge different culture's choices of food. I don't really see how Wal-Mart selling turtles for soup is any different than them selling chickens in their big markets.

The argument that it is cruel for a turtle to "look up and see the chalkboard that lists it for sale" sounds like typically silly PETA logic to me.

[adizziedoll]

Unless these are endangered turtles, I'm not sure how this is different then us Americans going up to the seafood counter and asking the guy to throw a live lobster in the steamer for us...
Life feeds on life.

[Blu Mongoose]

I would have to agree. How as Americans eating beef, pork and chicken criticize someone else for their taste in food. I understand protecting endangered species. Yet most of us that keep snakes don't bat an eye at killing a mouse or rat. I would be more concerned about the way the animal is housed while alive. Many animals are raised on farms the same as cattle.

[Emilio]

I have no problem with Wal-mart doing business like that.And let's think about it I probably eat 300 chicken's a year , about 3 or 4 cow's and many fish they are our food.Look at what we do to rodent's , we put lab rat's that have no self defense into a cage with their grim reaper.We either breed or buy these animal's to die , I think it's the same thing.

[kavmon]

there are alot of different cultures and cuisine all over the world. i think we should respect each equally, there is no right or wrong in my book, to each their own...



vaughn