On 5/27/2010 6:51 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> In >,
>> "Paul M. > wrote:
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>>> > 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.
>
>
> Well in Australia they are pests, yes as they invade farmlands. But the
> frogs you find in stores are not bullfrogs.

Ok, if you can tell by looking at them that they are not bullfrogs and
are not farm raised, why haven't you blown the whistle?

> And good on you for sparing the turtles.
>
> Paul
>
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