Tescos kill Turtles and Tortoises

[David Parker]

Originally Posted by Sipadan

Yeah, but they're not marine turtles that are being sold.

Oh yeah whats this then ......

[Sipadan]

[Tonio Anastasi]

Originally Posted by Sipadan

A general point, I don't think that Tesco selling turtles is a good thing, but veggies aside, I think there's a lot of hypocrisy going on over this issue. Anyone who thinks we have an ethical meat industry hasn't been to an abattoir. It's pretty horrific. 'Free range' farming is often anything but as it sounds and when you're tucking in to that cheap-as-chips farmed salmon, spare a thought for the devastating damage done to our natural salmon stocks by this practice. If you’re interested:

The Salmon Farm Monitor

Not too many people complaining about these issues. None of this is lost on the Chinese and if Tesco bow out to public pressure in the UK, then someone else will fill their place. In fact, Carrefour have been doing it for years. I went to a store in Kunming, Yunan Province in 2002 and the deli counter was more like an aquarium.

The way I understood the article. People go to a TESCO supermarket in China and chose which part of the turtle they want. So if they want a paddel, the paddle is cut of off a live turtle and left there alive. Turtels are opened up alive and left to die.

While not saying the the abbatiors are a paradise. The are however "humane" and the RSPCA and the Health Department ensure that it remains so.
Nobody goes in an abatior and asks for a rump and this is cut off the animal which is left in pain for the next person to come in to ask for a fillet. A slow agonizing long death.

As for Salmon farming
In the UK your enviormental NGO have been fighting Salmon farming since, if memory serves me right the 80s.