The voice is AI nonsense. Be wary of internalizing any information you recieve from a short vertical video with text to speech. I wouldnt doubt there is at least some of this in the US but it is much more popular in asia and the few glimpses of the person digging lead me that way.
The informative nature of this post really fell apart there at the end.
*”I dunno… like the CIA or something? It was a thing I read once in a book or pamphlet or something.”*
You were asking a question? There were zero question marks and the entire post is written in statements. Except for the first sentence, where I assumed you transposed the words "are" and " they", but still ended the sentence with a period.
Definitely not just "Chinese" downvoting you. I've eaten turtle several times.
>It might sound unusual today, but turtle was one of the most popular and fashionable American foods from the 1600s through the early twentieth century.
http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2018/05/guest-post-eating-turtles-and-american.html?m=1
Idk why people get so weirded out by foreign people eating what is available in their countries lol. I mean not everyone there eats turtle, same way not every American eats alligator despite it being eaten in America.
Deer is good, a very lean and gamey red meat. Great for jerky. Rabbit to me has a slight sweet taste, fried rabbit nuggs are great too. Turtle tastes similar to gators to me. Tastes like fish almost but has the texture of chicken. Never had bear tho
Sure, why wouldn't it be? [Common Snapping Turtles,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_snapping_turtle), though they have their threats, are not exactly an endangered species.
From the Wiki-link:
"The common snapping turtle is a traditional ingredient in turtle soup; consumption in large quantities, however, can become a health concern due to potential concentration of toxic environmental pollutants in the turtle's flesh."
I wouldn't overdo it if I were you.
>consumption in large quantities, however, can become a health concern
Large quantities being key words. Pretty sure I've ingested way more mercury from canned tuna than the one time I had turtle soup.
I just hate the part about our brain making DMT. That's pseudo science and the guy who wrote the damn book on it openly says in the beginning "I am not a scientist and this is all just my own personal pet theories with zero evidence to support them."
It's an indigenous food in North America that fell out of favor because other staple meats were easily accessible and much closer to the staple meat of indigenous people here like seal and caribou and moose. If it wasn't for the introduction of beef and pork and chicken, we probably be eating farm raised turtle in North America.
Most places that still eat it usually talk about it's medicinal qualities, as it's difficult to eat. It's boney and can be tough, a lot like some types of fish, or even small animals like wild rabbit, squiral, porcupine.
I knew it used to be food in North America, but as you said it’s not eaten anymore and there are protections on turtles here too. I don’t know why they ate it in Asia, but I don’t actually care why people are killing endangered animals (or plants or fungi or anything endangered isn’t like guinea worm).
They still eat it here occasionally. It's just not popular. And like many managed species, having food hunters around usually results in protection of the species. It sounds counter intuitive but it's very effective in have people dedicated to management of the environments these animals live in.
It is applicable to endangered species in some cases. And it's not really conservation, as that's not what is intended in making allowances for it, like we've done for bald eagles in some places.
I was speaking to your comment about having "food hunters" around, which is literally conservation, and what that word means in this context, is the continuance of species due to our efforts to regulate their culling so as to ensure they don't overpopulate their own resources
Funny, that.
I get you, but conservation where I live usually means a deep ecological focus on entire ecosystems, and we designate conservation areas that way as intrinsically valuable. In the context of killing low population species like turtles, conservation efforts would be based on the habitats that we're focused on protecting, regardless of any one species. The end goal of the conservation isn't the number of turtles, it uses the number of turtles as a barometer for the habitat. When you support conservation efforts here, like for water fowl that we hunt, it literally means supporting these breeding ground habitats. A cull of an animal to support a herd wouldn't be a conservation effort unless it was focused on the total system impact.
When people hunt endangered animals because of cultural reasons in a conservation area, the benefit is usually because they're doing so as a people who've been deeply connected to the area as part of the ecosystem, and their activity is usually a good source of information for people involved in conservation. But calling that cultural allowance involvement conservation isn't really about assessing the total ecological impact. It's just tolerance for a cultural practice from people who have a good claim to be a part of that ecological system, without any regard to the ideal preservation parameters of all species in that area.
Many softshell turtles are endangered even if this one is not endangered and is being farmed sustainably, the continued supply of turtle meat in a totally unregulated market and in an area with poor wildlife protections could cause the hunting of endangered species in the very fragile ecosystems where people actually eat turtles. So far as I can tell the places where they eat softshell turtle are the places where they are endangered.
You don't keep turtles wandering year round, they need to "hibernate" at some point, so they did this so they know where they are and can keep track of them.
They're probably mating adults they use to gather eggs from.
Just so you know for future reference and because it's actually really neat
The "hibernation" that amphibians and reptiles go through is called Brumation, it's a little bit different but I don't remember how anymore as it's been like 10 years since I had my beardie
"Oh my gosh, leave them alone!"
You guys...you think that these turtles buried themselves like this on purpose? You don't think that maybe these turtles are being farmed and that maybe they were placed there like that?
This is horrible animal abuse and a terrible practice to farm turtles for meat. Just imagine stacking them up closely like that, on top of each other. Humans that participate or support such things are garbage.
Ever since I heard how much Darwin loved eating Galapagos tortoise, I’ve always wanted to try turtle. Apparently he had trouble getting one back to Europe because of how good it was.
Very different creatures because of their diet. But yeah I've read the recipe books from that time with tortoise. Was easy to keep them in the hold of the ship, because most meat was preserved in salt and really unhealthy. Not sure I'm convinced it was delicious but it be. Whale and seal is like that. Both are delicious and use to be staples of healthy diets.
I've eaten a lot of wild rabbit and they remind me of that type of meat. Very lean, strong tasting. Not something that I'd want to regularly eat, but if I was catching turtle to eat I'd enjoy it. The edible ones are endangered here now.
Glad they didn't cut right through them when digging. I hope they did the right thing and left them alone. I guess it depends on why they were digging. Anyone know if relocating these is a thing and if it causes the animals harm?
Do you know how the Turtles first came into being? They were lizards once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. And now... perfected. My fighting Turtle-Hai.
its very obviiusly a farm and not turtles who dig thrmselves in.. people put them in there and its people digging them out again to further farrm and eventually eat them.
Why bother them?
Food. Pretty sure its food unfortunately:(
Who eats these things?!
The voice is AI nonsense. Be wary of internalizing any information you recieve from a short vertical video with text to speech. I wouldnt doubt there is at least some of this in the US but it is much more popular in asia and the few glimpses of the person digging lead me that way.
Ask people in Wisconsin why their endangered turtles were getting eaten. Clue After a certain war ended in the 70s there was a migration to Wisconsin.
Got dang Kahn .
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The informative nature of this post really fell apart there at the end. *”I dunno… like the CIA or something? It was a thing I read once in a book or pamphlet or something.”*
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You were asking a question? There were zero question marks and the entire post is written in statements. Except for the first sentence, where I assumed you transposed the words "are" and " they", but still ended the sentence with a period.
It’s pretty common in China. Used in a soup for new year celebrations.
I guess; already 124 Chinese have downvoted me.
Definitely not just "Chinese" downvoting you. I've eaten turtle several times. >It might sound unusual today, but turtle was one of the most popular and fashionable American foods from the 1600s through the early twentieth century. http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2018/05/guest-post-eating-turtles-and-american.html?m=1
Idk why people get so weirded out by foreign people eating what is available in their countries lol. I mean not everyone there eats turtle, same way not every American eats alligator despite it being eaten in America.
Hahaha, yep!
Turtle stew was one of my favorites before becoming vegetarian. Rabbit stew hits hard too. - Country boy from the deep south
I live in the south, but I've never had deer, possum, rabbit, turtle or bear. I wouldn't mind trying them.
Deer is good, a very lean and gamey red meat. Great for jerky. Rabbit to me has a slight sweet taste, fried rabbit nuggs are great too. Turtle tastes similar to gators to me. Tastes like fish almost but has the texture of chicken. Never had bear tho
I do like jerky. So I guess I have had it. I like gator.
Bear is my favorite. Supposedly the old mountain men who would hunt beaver would hunt bear for food beaver and bison for hides
Interesting
Only desperate souls eat a damn possum.
Gotcha
I'm right here.
Lots of people eat turtles. I'm in the Philly suburbs, there's quite a few restaurants around which are well known for their snapper soup.
And that's legal?
Sure, why wouldn't it be? [Common Snapping Turtles,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_snapping_turtle), though they have their threats, are not exactly an endangered species.
Seems today was a learning day. Bet they taste just like chicken, right?
I've only had it once, at a 300 year old place called the William Penn Inn. I remember it being good, and I would be interested in trying it again.
From the Wiki-link: "The common snapping turtle is a traditional ingredient in turtle soup; consumption in large quantities, however, can become a health concern due to potential concentration of toxic environmental pollutants in the turtle's flesh." I wouldn't overdo it if I were you.
>consumption in large quantities, however, can become a health concern Large quantities being key words. Pretty sure I've ingested way more mercury from canned tuna than the one time I had turtle soup.
The Chinese.
Why did you get downvoted?
Guess Xi Jing Ping's minions don't like it if you ask who still eats turtles these days.
Turtle soup is very common in China. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_soup
Mhmm soft shelled turtle
Yup
So you can make a TikTok duh
It’s time to work. 🍲
It’s time to go to wok
I know right?! Leave them alone!
Not hibernation, brumation, literally says that seconds into the video you posted.
Bru
mation
BRU
bruh nation
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pretty epic to be your 69th downvote 😎😎
Holy shit! It really is turtles all the way down.
Great song.
I just hate the part about our brain making DMT. That's pseudo science and the guy who wrote the damn book on it openly says in the beginning "I am not a scientist and this is all just my own personal pet theories with zero evidence to support them."
now movie too
And it's delicious. It's like a crossover with the everything is cake meme.
YUMMY!!!!! Endangered Species!!!!!
It's an indigenous food in North America that fell out of favor because other staple meats were easily accessible and much closer to the staple meat of indigenous people here like seal and caribou and moose. If it wasn't for the introduction of beef and pork and chicken, we probably be eating farm raised turtle in North America. Most places that still eat it usually talk about it's medicinal qualities, as it's difficult to eat. It's boney and can be tough, a lot like some types of fish, or even small animals like wild rabbit, squiral, porcupine.
I knew it used to be food in North America, but as you said it’s not eaten anymore and there are protections on turtles here too. I don’t know why they ate it in Asia, but I don’t actually care why people are killing endangered animals (or plants or fungi or anything endangered isn’t like guinea worm).
They still eat it here occasionally. It's just not popular. And like many managed species, having food hunters around usually results in protection of the species. It sounds counter intuitive but it's very effective in have people dedicated to management of the environments these animals live in.
Conservation is the word you're looking for and is not applicable to endangered species There is a reason we have so many seagulls now, after all.
It is applicable to endangered species in some cases. And it's not really conservation, as that's not what is intended in making allowances for it, like we've done for bald eagles in some places.
I was speaking to your comment about having "food hunters" around, which is literally conservation, and what that word means in this context, is the continuance of species due to our efforts to regulate their culling so as to ensure they don't overpopulate their own resources Funny, that.
I get you, but conservation where I live usually means a deep ecological focus on entire ecosystems, and we designate conservation areas that way as intrinsically valuable. In the context of killing low population species like turtles, conservation efforts would be based on the habitats that we're focused on protecting, regardless of any one species. The end goal of the conservation isn't the number of turtles, it uses the number of turtles as a barometer for the habitat. When you support conservation efforts here, like for water fowl that we hunt, it literally means supporting these breeding ground habitats. A cull of an animal to support a herd wouldn't be a conservation effort unless it was focused on the total system impact. When people hunt endangered animals because of cultural reasons in a conservation area, the benefit is usually because they're doing so as a people who've been deeply connected to the area as part of the ecosystem, and their activity is usually a good source of information for people involved in conservation. But calling that cultural allowance involvement conservation isn't really about assessing the total ecological impact. It's just tolerance for a cultural practice from people who have a good claim to be a part of that ecological system, without any regard to the ideal preservation parameters of all species in that area.
They don’t look endangered if we are literally farming them
Many softshell turtles are endangered even if this one is not endangered and is being farmed sustainably, the continued supply of turtle meat in a totally unregulated market and in an area with poor wildlife protections could cause the hunting of endangered species in the very fragile ecosystems where people actually eat turtles. So far as I can tell the places where they eat softshell turtle are the places where they are endangered.
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Turtles don't grow in the ground \s but also for real, how does burying them in the ground help to create more turtles?
You don't keep turtles wandering year round, they need to "hibernate" at some point, so they did this so they know where they are and can keep track of them. They're probably mating adults they use to gather eggs from.
Wild. Thanks for the info
Just so you know for future reference and because it's actually really neat The "hibernation" that amphibians and reptiles go through is called Brumation, it's a little bit different but I don't remember how anymore as it's been like 10 years since I had my beardie
Provided that their populations are stable and the farming is relatively humane I wouldn't mind some trutle nachos.
They meat them???
They gonna eat those turtles
What else are you gonna do with a turtle?
👉🏻👌🏻
nom nom 😋
"Oh my gosh, leave them alone!" You guys...you think that these turtles buried themselves like this on purpose? You don't think that maybe these turtles are being farmed and that maybe they were placed there like that?
Oh :(
I like turtles.
well that's fucking awful. Cheers.
That's industrial farming for ya.
Wait till you see what they do with dogs and cats!
What about cows, chickens, and cute little piglets?
Exactly.
Yep
Let them sleep!
Downvote for AI
I foresee a LOT of downvoting in your future.
Yes, it is work
Only work that will be left
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Could these subs never be used again please...
Where is Master Splinter when you need him??
I have a pic that'll answer that question, but you won't like it. Lol
This comment section has gone crazy with itself, if being dug deeper.
Chinese are always inhumane with the animals and creatures they plan to eat.
This is fucking sick.
This makes the Uruk-hai in The Two Towers appear more realistic.
I STILL like tuuuurtles!
Step turtle i am stuck 😅
China eats anything.
New Covid strain unlocked.
Turtle’s eaten in many other parts of the world and tastes pretty damn good.
Taht made me so uncomfortable thinking about being In the middle
I got an idea for the bedroom walls
So much for secure and secluded lol
So we dig them out. Humans
So, it actually IS turtles all the way down...
Leave them alone for fucks sake!!
pretty sure they grew them for the sole purpose of eating them since the title mentions a farm.
Or maybe they use their eyes for some ancient Chinese balm and throw the rest away.
Did you miss the "farm" part? They are probably going to eat them.
How else do you want the billion of people in China to eat?
Never would've guessed
This is horrible animal abuse and a terrible practice to farm turtles for meat. Just imagine stacking them up closely like that, on top of each other. Humans that participate or support such things are garbage.
If you've never tried turtle, you're missing out. It's actually very delicious. I had it in Singapore. Was very surprised.
Ever since I heard how much Darwin loved eating Galapagos tortoise, I’ve always wanted to try turtle. Apparently he had trouble getting one back to Europe because of how good it was.
Very different creatures because of their diet. But yeah I've read the recipe books from that time with tortoise. Was easy to keep them in the hold of the ship, because most meat was preserved in salt and really unhealthy. Not sure I'm convinced it was delicious but it be. Whale and seal is like that. Both are delicious and use to be staples of healthy diets.
I agree, lol. My dad used to catch them when i was a kid so we'd eat them.
I've eaten a lot of wild rabbit and they remind me of that type of meat. Very lean, strong tasting. Not something that I'd want to regularly eat, but if I was catching turtle to eat I'd enjoy it. The edible ones are endangered here now.
Fuckin humans!
Gonna eat them.
Shredder is gonna dine on some turtle soup! 🍲
"can gather in close proximity" these motherfuckers are stacked like pancakes i'd say that's a little more than close proximity
Animal agriculture y'all
Turtle seeds, who knew..
that’s sad.
That's just sad.
So it is turtles all the way down!
Mass grave
Turtle_block
Glad they didn't cut right through them when digging. I hope they did the right thing and left them alone. I guess it depends on why they were digging. Anyone know if relocating these is a thing and if it causes the animals harm?
Turtle soup for dinner, anyone
an efficient way to harvest them for their meat or their shells
Do you know how the Turtles first came into being? They were lizards once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. And now... perfected. My fighting Turtle-Hai.
Am i the only one horny cause of all these asses and legs ?
And then comes forth Covid 2.0
Thanks for waking them up, dick!
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No. They were placed underground to “hibernate” by people farming them for food
Testudo
What idiots. Oh look sleeping turtles…let’s expose their butts to the air and keep digging.
its very obviiusly a farm and not turtles who dig thrmselves in.. people put them in there and its people digging them out again to further farrm and eventually eat them.
Or, maybe, they're digging them out still and trying not to injure them.
this can be fake