94 points

Yeah, don’t . . . . don’t eat sea turtles, okay.

Everybody? Like if you were sitting around rubbing your belly and licking your lips going “Mmmm mmmm wish I had a big sea turtle meat dish right now”, like - don’t. Okay?

Just leave the sea turtles alone. They got enough hassles.

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Agreed! Leave the turtles alone!

And the cows. And the pigs. And the chickens. They all have enough problems.

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14 points

Found the compassionate individual.

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Their username is a clue.

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Everyone who downvoted this should know that pigs are raised in pens where they don’t have enough room to turn around and have to sleep and give birth in their own shit.

But hey, the narwhal bacons at midnight, right?

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The juvenile preoccupation with shaming vegans online is so fucking exhausting and annoying. You’d think the existence of vegans and the idea of eating less meat to reduce overall cruelty was like asking them to sell their child into slavery.

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I raise my own pigs in large pens and they are treated well until slaughter.

What are your feelings on that?

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And the humans

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5 points

Ok, so there’s a risk of death. If I’m on a desert island then I’ll risk it, otherwise I’ll avoid.

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Had to look up why sea turtle meat would kill, since it’s not reported in the article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonitoxism

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Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar’s people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.

Second paragraph.

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Typical NBC not embedding an entire wikipedia page in their article. smh my head.

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It’s incredible, I’ve never seen a disease with so little information on the actual mechanism behind it. The articles just lists where it happens and every symptom you can think of. The word Chelonitoxin itself just refers to the scientific name of these turtles Chelonia followed by toxin.

I dug a little deeper and found this:

Salmonella sp., Proteus sp., Aeromonas, Escherichia coli, Citrobacter sp., Enterobacter sp., Klebsiella sp., Morganella morganii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella sp. and Shigella sp. are some of the pathogenic microorganisms found in this study. Some of these microorganisms are common bacterial flora of nesting green turtles (Santoro et al., 2006).

So it looks like the gut biome of the turtles is capable of killing humans. My first guess was going to be the diet of the turtles.

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Huh, fascinating stuff. Wonder what triggers it

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cyanobacteria infection of the turtle. it can also happen if they dont parboil the turtle meat correctly. that’s the best i could find using an Internet search

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Wikipedia notes that the likely cause is a neurotoxin. Apparently it’s an area of little research, though.

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The ‘why’ is lacking in the wiki article too, unfortunately.

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54 points

I like the way the turtle in the thumbnail looks like “Yeah you fucking deserved that”

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its just a turtle bro

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The saddest is that it’s children who probably had no clue and no way of deciding.

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It’s painfully obvious that some cultures just haven’t learned these lessons yet.

It would be awesome if this encouraged some young people to be proactive in learning about what they eat.

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Holy fuck, the Wikipedia article for Chelonitoxism is crazy. No wonder everyone is dead or fucked up.

Children are especially susceptible, and the toxins have been reported to transfer readily via breastfeeding, even when the mother experiences no illness.

Motherfucking toxin from the Alien movies

Digestive system signs include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, dysphagia, tongue abnormalities and a firm, nontender liver. Autopsies have revealed hemorrhage in liver, esophagus and stomach, with mucosal edema of the esophagus, stomach and intestines. Fatty changes and necrosis of the liver were present. Other organs found to be abnormal on autopsy include swollen gall bladder, congested kidneys and enlarged spleen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonitoxism

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Goddamn. I have a feeling some of them aren’t done dying yet.

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