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Sqwertz wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:57:10 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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> > 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.

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> 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, it's Maxim. They opened up a year or two ago,
probably after you left the area. They're a mile
or two south of Marina, near the intersection of
85 and De Anza Blvd.