I'm sure that some people who breed and keep pet rats would say similar things about the feeding videos where someone picks up a rat by the base of the tail and tosses it into a cage with a live snake. It will seem callous to them, and disrespectful to the rat, and cruel to "toss" it, and how dare they pick them up by the tail, swinging them carelessly over to the bin and DROPPING them up to a couple feet?!?!
It's all in what YOU love when you watch any "harvesting" of an animal. Yes, he's being callous to the turtles. It's very hard to emphasize with any reptile, because they DON'T scream, they don't grimace in pain, and they show no expressions. WE emphasize with the animals in the video, becuase WE keep reptiles. To him it's no more cruel than poking cattle to move them into a slaughter pen.
It's callous and somewhat cruel, but I wouldn't be calling for his death, nor condemning a entire country or section of the country. He's just ignorant, and I'd bet that if he ever THINKS from the turtles point of view, he'd be a little more kind while hunting turtles. He'd still hunt them, still kill them for food, but he'd probably be more respectful if he had the education on them and how wonderful and cool they can be.
Just my $0.02
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