Turtles flee farm in Chattooga County
Thousands of them. :eek::eek:
No video is available, must’ve stacked up and had the eastern painted paint out the security cameras.
According to the article, in China turtles are raised for food like chickens.
This reminds me of my favorite fact learned from watching QI :
When Darwin returned from his famous voyage to the Galapagos , he took many newly-discovered species of animals back with him. But the only ones which were didn’t make it all the way back to England were the giant turtles.
Because …
… the crew of the ship ate them.
All I could think was that the man doesn’t make a lot of effort to check his stock on any kind of a regular basis.
And now I want to see Aardman Animation make a claymation movie about this.
They also import them in nontrivial quantities from US farmers, and not just from Mr. Driver. An old friend back in Louisiana has a turtle farm, and most of his business is with Chinese distributors. (As far as I know, he doesn’t sell to pet operations at all.)
My wife and I went to SFO years ago, and while in Chinatown, I was taking pictures of the stores and sights. We came to a market selling octopus, fish, and all types of sea creatures. They also had a bowl of turtles. Cute baby turtles, just like I had growing up, with the little pondand the palm tree.
My wife pointed out that there were no ***other ***pets displayed here…:eek:
Nooooo! Somebody save the wee turtles!
Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome
I wonder if any of them will become ‘invasive species’.
Yes, but it will take years… and years… and years
This reminded me of that line from The Simpsons: “They’re getting away! Very…slowly.”
Not unless they already were, since his stock was from locally caught turtles.
I’m afraid to ask: how does one cook and eat something that small? The shell-to-meat ratio seems … suboptimal, at best.
mmmm…yellow-bellied sliders.:eek:
In the states, at least, turtle soup is one of the most common ways to eat 'em. But with turtles that small, I wonder if they’re not intended to take home, feed scraps, and eat them next year.
Feel free to look up “soft shell turtle recipes”.