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The button URL is at the end of the description. This gives me the illusion that some people will think before they post or edit or close a thread, they will read the warning.
WARNING this video has some very graphic footage of animals in a food market, and ends with an 8 minute segment of how those LIVE TURTLES ARE BUTCHERED as a food preparation process.
If you DO NOT want the images in your mind's eye then don't look.
You may wonder what purpose such a video serves and why it is historically significant?
It was/is the catalyst behind many globally significant turtle survival alliances. It provoked action and $$ to create chelonian centers around the world. And that IS WHY the video was taken and then widely distributed to hundreds of people in places that had an opportunity/placement to make changes.
Sorta like the images of baby seals being slaughtered for fur coats, it is meant to provoke. But not debates over what is going on and how horrible it is, but to provoke action to make things better.
Images of dead Russian/Pancake tortoises in shipping boxes looking like putrid hamburger and the following outcry was why IATA actually got off their butts and made the transport of tortoises less inhumane.
If the best comment you might have in regards to watching this video is how bad the animal treatment is, and you don't do some positive thing to make a positive change, you are, in my opinion, worse than the poor person wanting a meal from a turtle they buy in a market.
Write a check for whatever organization you think is actually doing a good job being proactive and helping chelonian conservation, rather than being a whiney indignant pet owner.
Me, I've spent over 100K on such matters, some donated, much my own. So that's who I am to be calling you out. Think and rethink, before you respond.
Will
THIS IS SOME GRAPHIC S*#T.
http://youtu.be/w2yut_3ARQU
WARNING this video has some very graphic footage of animals in a food market, and ends with an 8 minute segment of how those LIVE TURTLES ARE BUTCHERED as a food preparation process.
If you DO NOT want the images in your mind's eye then don't look.
You may wonder what purpose such a video serves and why it is historically significant?
It was/is the catalyst behind many globally significant turtle survival alliances. It provoked action and $$ to create chelonian centers around the world. And that IS WHY the video was taken and then widely distributed to hundreds of people in places that had an opportunity/placement to make changes.
Sorta like the images of baby seals being slaughtered for fur coats, it is meant to provoke. But not debates over what is going on and how horrible it is, but to provoke action to make things better.
Images of dead Russian/Pancake tortoises in shipping boxes looking like putrid hamburger and the following outcry was why IATA actually got off their butts and made the transport of tortoises less inhumane.
If the best comment you might have in regards to watching this video is how bad the animal treatment is, and you don't do some positive thing to make a positive change, you are, in my opinion, worse than the poor person wanting a meal from a turtle they buy in a market.
Write a check for whatever organization you think is actually doing a good job being proactive and helping chelonian conservation, rather than being a whiney indignant pet owner.
Me, I've spent over 100K on such matters, some donated, much my own. So that's who I am to be calling you out. Think and rethink, before you respond.
Will
THIS IS SOME GRAPHIC S*#T.
http://youtu.be/w2yut_3ARQU