In article >,
"Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news
> > 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.
>
>
> Well in Australia they are pests, yes as they invade farmlands. But the
> frogs you find in stores are not bullfrogs.
Okay, perhaps not there, but here, the frog legs I find commercially are
usually farm raised bullfrogs. :-)
>
> And good on you for sparing the turtles.
>
> Paul
I like turtles! And there are not many in the wild anymore except for
maybe red-ears in the south...
The biggest problem with bullfrogs is that they are big enough to eat
any other frogs so devastate native species.
Or so I have read...
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