In article >,
"Paul M. Cook" > wrote:

> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:57:10 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> >
> >> At the risk of being called a killjoy, consider before you buy them that
> >> the
> >> state of the terrapin world is quite precarious. They are being pushed
> >> to
> >> extinction and the last thing anybody needs to eat is a turtle.
> >> Amphibians
> >> are not doing a whole lot better. Most of the frogs you find for food
> >> were
> >> taken from the wild where their numbers are plummeting.
> >
> > Frogs and turtles are all farm raised when sold as food. So that
> > store (Marina Foods?), nor their customers, are not contributing
> > to their decline one bit.
>
>
> No they are not farm raised you blithering pinhead. There happens to be a
> HUGE poaching industry.
>
> Paul

While I agree with you about the turtles, bullfrogs are actually pests
in some places and hardly endangered, plus they are farmed extensively:

<http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...&aqi=g5g-m2g-m
s1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=19d13023017841d>

1,800,000 his on google for frog farming.

I don't eat turtles.
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