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  • The answer in in the footage. Find the turtle hunters and sellers other jobs.

  • too disturbing and too painful to watch! Stop killing those sea turtles!

  • Wow, I noticed the below comments were made as much as 3 months ago. I did not see this before and any caring person would not stand around and laugh with the people; they are inhuman and Jacham said part of what I would have said. That poor turtle could not believe what was happening; see its mouth open wide in pain and disbelief. Those pigs, this is one time I may have acturally harmed someone and I am a very giving and outgoing person. I cried, filthy pigs. Do not go their land

  • I am unable to even to complete viewing the video. I am sickened. I remember when a news program first did the episode regarding Mad Cow disease - I was so freaked, way before organic beef, chicken, etc. After seeing that I never comfortable consumed beef. Over the years I guess my mind has made it impossible for me to enjoy any form of protein that had a mother. I do not miss eating this either.

    THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO POST THIS VIDEO AND EDUCATING ME.

  • In a world dominated by violence, exploitation and oppression, it takes courage to show compassion. Join the resistance. Roots of compassion

  • Not all Balinese eat turtle's meat. They do in some southern Denpasar village. Most of them eat pork and significant percentage are vegetarian.

  • tears of salt

  • These Bastards should suffer exactly the same !

    Absolute Ignorance and the total lack of Empathie is destroying our world!

    How can such people wish to be in peace, when they commit such Cruelties to other living and feeling Creatures?! Shame on them!

  • Eventhought i am against the killing of turtles i just want to taste it for just ones. But i do hope their will be change soon.

  • what shit tradition is that ??

    to hell with these bali bastards.......

    Stop killing these turtle or indo will have more natural disaster and punish these idiot 

  • go somewhere else to vacation....hell with the gods..

  • maledetti asassinibastardi popolo di merda siete la vergogna dell'umanità non l'avete nemmeno uccisa prima di macellarla siete delle bestie .

  • Balinese people who do this...PLEASE STOP killing the turtles!! Honor and revere them and not kill them in such a horrible way and eat it after...think about what you're doing and what you're eating!! Ritual or NO, it's not right!!!

  • This IS such ashame...why??? These beautiful creatures...your Bali karma will suffer!!!

  • why people talking about what we did for our ceremony.not all balinese eat turtle.why don,t you look in other country ,example in french ,how they kill a gose for foie gras or nz lamb or other planet beef ,it all of them just want say something bad about bali.before you guys saying bad about my mother land why you don,t look at your self first

  • Despite this is being culture inheritance or not. I opted for ban on hunting sea turtles. It is unfortunate, and time has changed.

  • Tragic beyond belief!

    Sadly, it will ONLY end when there are no more turtles left.

    But, obviously no one really cares about the turtles. AND - even the people of Bali must care even less. How will their 'religion' go on when all the turtles are killed. Guess that they will have to find something else to kill and slaughter.

    Just like the Japan 'research' ships that kill whales - the people of Bali will destroy their resource. Typical I guess for human selfishness and destructive way.

  • @abramsrev

    I have Balinese blood, so I might have something to say. Despite the extinction of sea turtles, the religion will still go on. It doesn't revolves around slaughtering sea turtles or any other. Mountain people in Bali don't get to eat sea turtles meat anyway. I do however, opposed such tradition. Since this is a changing world, and the sea no longer hold unlimited resources. How do we changes tradition? Education! Work tirelessly educating these simple folks!

  • @abramsrev obviously u care an so do i but we all eat meat from animals cows, chickens etc. and anyway were not the only ones who slaughter animals

  • KILL THOSE BASTERDS

  • Good to see the elitist and rich white men of the world are still culturally insensitive.

  • New religion! To make the god happy, let's torture and kill these Asian fucks

  • I would never ever go to Bali, I been to Jakarta for few weeks and that was enough to put me off from that country. Bali is drug ridden, mix "so" called religion...ty for uploading this and I hope it puts of everyone from that country.

  • YOU SICK AND TWISTED PRICKS THERE IS NO REASON TO KILL IT FOR RELIGION! USE A FISH BUT ATLEAST DONT KILL IT THAT WAY!!!!!

  • So too what god they make this offering? just watched it without sound!

  • I wonder WHEN it happens...??? There aren't enough turtles left for this to be allowed!

    Leave our Turtles Alone!

  • I wonder WHEN it happens. There aren't enough turtles left for thisw to be allowed!

  • those sons of *****es they are sick and twisted and i dont give a sh*t what you say and about their "religion" they can go kill a fish! BUT DONT DISMEMBER IT ALIVE!!

  • @bulldude8796 hey there. yeah this documentary is true but its a bit of a distortion, it only happens in the south of bali, in one particular village.

    definitely should be enforced and made illegal though.

  • rediculous... just rediculous

  • Journeyman Pictures is very good at showing things noone knows about. Their documentaries are excellent

  • this guy very stubern and not listrenning to balinese explanatian.

    One guy said if you want to stop us please give us and other choice to survive, but he keep saying balinese is killing place. He doesnt know balinese has different culture in different village and city.

  • ok , this is only in tanjung benoa bali , because rest of bali doesnt use turtles as ritual offering .i am from north bali , i never seee in my village or in my city use turtles as ritual offering. i am agree to stop turtles killing but dont say all bali use turtle or eat turtles, because i am balimese and this thing only happen in small area in bali and that is tanjung benoa ,population problably 2000 more.and the other thing bali as the most vegatarian restaurant in indonesia.

  • you are right gdear i am hindu from india and i would like to make

    it clear to those hindus slaughtering animals birds or reptiles for

    rituals,theres is no such ritual in hindu religion that hindus have to

    slaughter anything,god never asks the life for worship or offering...

  • ok , this is only in tanjung benoa bali , because rest of bali doesnt use turtles as ritual offering .i am from north bali , i never seee in my village or in my city use turtles as ritual offering. i am agree to stop turtles killing but dont say all bali use turtle or eat turtles, because i am balimese and this thing only happen in small area in bali and that is tanjung benoa ,population problably 2000 more.

  • May god dame those who kill Turtle

  • Shit .There are killing Turtle .Please save turtle

  • Save this animal from Bali people....OMG.....

  • Boycott Bali. Sick savages!

  • Holy crap!what the hell is those 'indonesian people' doing,wake up from those supersitious belief,Jeez i wish that some organization would do something about it,Retarded idiots because of taking the blood for offerings to god,i think its a inapprociate way of doing,eating the flesh after the ritual has been done so far

  • Sure ~ in the upacara bulan purnama ~ the ceremony ... it's grewsome & slow!  but you can see that when people are eating the turtles for food, they behead them. This Australian guy shouldn't be going around saying: "It looks very cruel!"

    ...Take a camera into factory farms in your own country! There's another doc. all together!

    But of course cows are far from endangered ~ & that's the real issue...

  • Remove all Hindic from the Island no more fishing o0r turtle hunting allow around the water of Bali by Hindic under the penalty of being beheaded.

  • u feekin savages i hate your guts u freaks u guys are wackos u stupid idiot bootists

  • And I bet those idiots will say the last green sea turtle is the most tasty thing they've ever eaten.

  • fucking savages!

  • psychos

  • animals.

  • hinduism is a bullshit religion, based upon idol worshipping, which is totally and utterlly BULLSHIT!

  • @Snoopy7868 At least idol worship involves worshiping something that actually exists, even if it isn't divine.

  • @YourProfessor its utter bullshit! a fucking statue? or a cow? utter rubbish!

  • @Snoopy7868 I know, its like worshiping some invisible man in the sky you've never seen or heard and probably doesn't exist. Utter bullshit indeed.

    At least we know the statue exists.

  • @YourProfessor your religion is bullshit! face it!

  • @Snoopy7868 I'm an atheist. All religion is bullshit, yours more so then theirs however.

  • i hate this!!! civilisation needs to be enforced in most countries..i mean enforced. evenif it means re-colonising them. well who can help! the people who could help re also busy destroying the world in another way-Nuclear and atomic bombs and more amunitions. who ll help the wolrd!!-only God, lets Pray

  • @ugomegwass Feels good to be an imperialist, eh?

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  • What a story. These people seem so soft spoken and timid.

    Yet, they make up for it with torture.

    Lets face it, you can rationalise about "kind cuts". Ultimately, they simply get off on the rush of another being's agony. While hiding behind just another religious ritual. They're so kind and loving, just like the Catholic Cardinals. Ha, ha, ha....

  • this is sick!!!

    they've got to stop!

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  • yes mate agree bcse some animals are stil under protection bt fact its people was killing and eating them from centuries huh....... and will be alwas like this

  • Bali is predominantly Hindu,

  • i always thought Hindus have a special regard for nature and living things, This vid proves otherwise, Just because its done by ppl with a smile, doesnt make it any better, Obviously, the last tsunami wasnt doint its job, maybe the next time, it ll wash this place into the sea, so we dont have to look at this horror anymore

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  • these people are just plain evil.

  • look at 12:52 the fuckface has as nazi symbol embroidered on his shirt, no wonder these sick fucks look the other way as turtle after turtle is slaughtered. 20,000 a year that number is preposterous..... sea turtles are already threatened and endangered as it is. We dont need crazy muslim bastards killing these poor animals EVERYDAY.

  • @maxtheaxe99 It's actually a hindu symbol that predates the Nazi party by a few millenia.

  • OMFG! you are so fucking crazy!!!

  • man is really the deadliest predators in the world,but im not judging anyone.but what the fuck..are they doing..again PLEASE...SEA TURTLES ARE FEW .STOP IT....PLEASE...

  • People, would you rather turtles die, or everyone who survives off eating them. It's the food chain. That and don't knock it till ya try it.

  • when you go on hollyday dont intrefeer with BALI CULTURE,inyou your stee,er is more rong in the world ,if this vidio give you siknes its coms becose its only looking from 1 side, a crazzzyy belanda hoe loveBALI becouse its BALI.

  • cold bloody killer

  • Who are you to say that certain animals are too cute to be slaughtered? As much as i felt sick watching the poor turtle, the western world is doing the same thing with cows, chicken, etc. The key is education. Indonesia is still 'young', You cannot blame kids for things they do not know to be wrong.

  • Let´s pray to Vishnu for the next tsunami - an kill these creatures !!!

  • if you have a video that young boy kills turtle,give mw please

  • GOBLOK!

  • it's just SIIICK !!!!! after 5 minutes i cannot have stomach to watch....

  • sik pricks luv to kick the shit out of em

  • this makes me feel sick. . .

  • sick bastards

  • sick bastards

  • vile disgusting bastards

  • this is fucking sick! i bet they never watch "Finding Nemo".

  • Fucken packie bastards kill them there is to many of them fs.

    fuken cut them up in put them in wan ae there currys :@

  • u sick bunch of animals, just pure animals u f*cks are!!!!!!

  • Jezus... Sick!!!!!!!!

    Alot of weird people on our world!

    Poor turtles! Those people are pahtetic killing the turtles on a waiy like that! Ugh sicko!

  • Mother F****** Bastards, saw 2 of these at an aquarium, so intelligent.What is with stupid cultures desiring the most endangered.40 million sharks are killed each year just for their fins, the rest is chucked away.

  • tht right i thin its wrong sea turtles are proteced speces by law same its wth a sharks huh the kiling hunder tous of them evry year jut for a fin the made soup of tht really cruel it shuldbe banned

  • PRICKS! grrrr.

    stuff like this makes me so angry :/

    i watched up to 3 mins and couldn't watch anymore.

  • fuking bastards see if i was there i would kick there stupid arse's

  • 3:21

  • indonesia buruk lantak!!!!

  • it is obvious these turtle people are nazis, just look at the dudes t-shirt on 12:41 lmfao!! whats up with the swastika?

  • At least have enough sense to spare rare life such as this. you can not blame them for being ignorant enough to not know how endangaered these animals may be. I suppose.

  • Yes you can, especially when loads of organisations are shouting down on them.

  • This is TORTURE. NOT culture.

    Sick bastards...

  • I cried while watching i dont know why

  • damn, i needa try one of these meat before it is extinct

  • 13:10 - swastika on that nigger's shirt

  • wtf... the fucking UN should stop this

  • Penyu=Enak banget

  • don't use religion as an excuse !!! it may be a delicious meal !! but when an animal spicie are in danger of disapearing it need to stop !! don't kill the sea turtles !! please save the sea turtles !! don't be an ignorant of the big damage that it will cause to the enviroment if seaturtles disapear from the planet !! stop it now or us !! ( the whole world will start a boicot for bali ) !!!!!!! you have no choice !! don't be barbaric as this video shows it !! animal still alive when dismembered !

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  • culture is like an iceberg so we must be very carefull before making a generalisation. we must learn about the culture deeply before we judge. thanks for the video. hopefully you learn more about balinesse culture and find more resources

  • ini kejam. bohong kalau cuma membunuh buat upacara agama, tapi buktinya waktu aku ke bali aku lihat banyak restoran jual sate penyu. semoga pemerintah indonesia akan lebih mengawasi penangkapan penyu penyu liar.

  • kamu kena tipu !! itu sate babi atau lawar itik. mau aja di kadalin ... haa......

  • fuck this video, i hate this activity!!

  • as somewhat of an anthropologist, (only by partial intrest) i look at this unbaisedly. i dont see it as necesarily cruel if it were rarely done. but through greed it has been warped. it is through seeing other cultures that we trully learn about ourselves. we all have different perspectives. to them this is holy, for some of us we think it cruel, and that it has no purpose. open your mind to different possibilities, and look at yourself in a different way. not all things in life are good, or bad

  • They have lived in a month of Sundays by this method.

    They are already members of nature.

    If the environment is defended, it is necessary to check a defoliant and agricultural chemicals and industrial drain, etc.

  • 亀にとって天敵は、ナイロンゴミや漁師の網・それに環境汚染です­。亀はナイロンなどの浮遊するゴミを烏賊と間違って食べます。そ­して腸閉塞で死にます。ゴミをいい加減に処理していませんか?

  • try joining the commentary in a language common to all those who are responding or are you concerned you will be replied to.

  • Let's get passed this concept of tradition and religion. The Asian @ large - will harvest, sell and eat anything that provides a sliver of gratification. From sandal wood, whale, shark fin to a kilo of heroin.

    Do not be fooled by the religious smoke screen.

  • got that right.  fact is set religion aside & they still don't give a shit or have a conscience about what they do to innocent animal life. it's all about money for them & culturally they find it idiotic to care about animal life. Sick and very sad.

  • those mother fucking bitches kill the poor fucking thing first before you fucken disembowel it maby i should go over there fucken get 2 people to hold one of those motherfuckers while i take a machete to ur stomach fucken assholes

  • gruesome

  • I call that one Michaelangelo because he has orange stripes, and he's good with nunchucks.

  • I bet half of you were eating beef, fish, or chicken when you were posting your comments. Oh that's right, they only kill the ugly and guilty cows, fish, chicken at the slaughterhouses, and let the innocent and pretty ones go free at the ranch. You emos are hilirious. I bet the salt from your tears makes that steak taste extra delicious.

  • last time I checked, we didn't gut them while they are still alive.

    everyone has to eat, and every culture has the meats that the dignify as "ok" for eating and whats not ok. (a western example would be our eating of cows as normal, while a hindu would think we are crazy for doing so, much like a lot of us our think they are crazy for eating turtles)

    But no living creature..period..deserves to be tortured like this turtle has been. whether that be chicken, cow or turtle, and thats the problem.

  • further more unlike cows and chickens these sea turtles are endangered. Now I can't blame these people for not respecting the protection laws of endangered species, they probably don't even know about it, or if they do, don't understand why.

    So I don't get mad at them for that. However that doesn't change the fact that they are killing an endangered animal, which is what is making alot of the posters here mad.

  • So you can't compare the eating of cows and chicken to this, as there are two rather large variables. One is that this turtle was tortured before it died, something we don't do. and two, this animal is endangered while cows and chickens are not.

    Thus it is upsetting, and people do have a right to feel that way, saying its justifiable because we eat chickens and cows is a poor argument.

    point being, while I don't blame these people for what they've done, it is something that should be stopped.

  • Just because an animal is not tourtured, it doesn't mean it didn't die a miserable and painful death, no matter what the slaughterhouse tells you. Just watch the videos. The painful blood curdling screams are not mistakable. You can't argue that death is ok as long as no torture is involved.

  • So I am to believe you are a vegetarian then? Unless your answer is yes, then your argument is invalid. There is a difference between the way we kill animals and the way this turtle was just tortured.

    and as for the cows and chickens that are in pain when they die, (such as alot of the videos we see here on youtube) that is against regulations. At the very least we are trying to make the animals death that we eat painless. something that can not be said for this turtle.

  • I don't think you have to be vegetarian to object to slaughter house practices & i don't pretend to say these are ok; they are not. there is technology, but not widely used. to use carbon dioxide gas to stun pigs for slaughter vs captive bolt gun. what I don't understand is kill the animal outright with a method that death is imme

    diate? but those who do this insist that the animal must be bled out while alive for heart to do this. what do hunters do with deer then after been killed - gravity?

  • In short, you can't get past the two large variables I mentioned before. We create regulations in order to reduce the suffering of the animals we eat....and we don't eat endangered species of animals a rather large argument you failed to respond to.

    Again, every culture has different meats they eat, that is fine. But torturing the animals before they die is inexcusable, as is eating endangered species, which is why people on this board are getting mad.

  • justifying it by saying we eat cows and chickens is a poor argument.

  • hate to tell you, there are parts of India where they slaughter cows & their treat

    ment prior to slaughter is horrific. but you are on point about this poor turtle. these countries know these animal are endan

    gered; they just don't give a shit. now if you paid them to give a shit, they might - it's all about the money & someone's taste buds. don't be nieve that they don't know or understand - it's their culture & they just don't care the harm they do to innocent animal life. check out china

  • you miss the point. my point is, you can't justify the painful slaughter of this turtle by saying "well we eat chickens and cows, thats just as bad". Which is what the guy I responded to said. My point is, (while not ideal, granted) we do have regulations for the cows and chickens we eat, and how they are killed. If we were to kill a cow or a chicken in the same way this turtle was just killed, I and everyone on this board would be just as upset as they are over this turtle.

  • In short. Its some people here are claiming alot of us are upset about the death of this turtle because of the fact that it is a turtle. Aside from the fact that the animal is endangered, I am saying thats not true, and you can't claim that because we eat cows and chickens that we are just as bad. I say, any animal that is killed that way, is wrong, and thats why the majority of us are upset. The fact that it is endangered however does raise the upset level a bit as well however, as I mentioned.

  • actually haven't missed the point & agree with you. in the US, there is only 1 fed law that governs slaughter of animals for food. that's it becuz i researched it. outside of that there are no other laws that protect animal welfare raised for food. no animal should die the way this turtle did, but it is the culture there - they have no regard for animal life unless you pay them to do so. & sadly enough there are many slaughterhouse abuses that thumb their nose at the law.

  • do you support what happened to this turtle?

  • On 12:40 his shirt has a swastika. his a hitlers youth survivor, or he could be hitler himself!!

  • thats the bhudist logo the nazi's stole it and turned it around!!! dummy

  • did you know that Hitler took the swastika from the Buddhists, so do some research before you make assumptions like that, please, just for your information.

  • is that reallly true about the swastika because in a documentary about the nazie i saw it indicated that the swastika was a common symbol during roman times. interesting.

  • pak u ninyu! adto mu dri barpa ihawon tamu! looy kau na uh!

  • Just a final point, Bali is in Indonesia: in 1965, the U.S. put General Suharto into power in that country, a brutal military dictator. One million people were butchered in Suharto's successful attempt at gaining political control. America became a strong supporter of Suharto, selling him weapons and training his soldiers. Later, in 1975, Suharto invaded East Timor, slaughtering 200,000 defenseless civilians. The U.S. used its "friendly relations" with Indonesia to get cheap, foreign labor.

  • The reporter is feeding his viewers propaganda. He juxtaposes the cruelty of the Balinese (all of them?), tying it to religion (just like Bush ties terrorism to Islam to engender blind, unthinking hatred in Americans), with Western environmentalism. The white man has done immense damage to the environment, wiped out thousands of species; in Africa hunts big animals for sport. The Spanish kill bulls and rip chickens' heads off; the British tear foxes to pieces. Americans also kill for sport.

  • These Balinese are killing for food NOT SPORT. We also destroy the rain forest.

    Don't be fooled by the shocking killing of the turtle at the start. The reporter says this is a religious ritual NOT common practice, NOT what happens to every turtle, and gives no statistics to assess the scale of the problem. Western environmentalism arose as a result of our extremely cruel past. It was the minority trying to change the majority. Today, we hide our cruely - behind the walls of factory farming!

  • HINDUS, MUSLIMS, WATEVER......those retards believe in that kind of shit?!?!??! food for their false idols?!??!?!?!? WOW....i have never seen anything more humane than this...we should strap those motherfuckers to a chair and dismember THEM alive...and then cut off their tiny balls and diicks and make them eat it...bali = dumbfucks who believe in false idols who deserve worse than hell

  • They're Hindus you dumbass.

  • Its disgusting to slaughter any animal without killing them.

    I believe thats why Earth Quake and Tsunami always happens in Indonesia.

    Mother nature is taking revange on Indonesian's.

  • I FUCKING HATE YOU MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLES U CRUEL PIECES OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!U DIRTY BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GO FUCK URE DADS U WHOREY MOTHER FUCKERS!!!

    How can they do that!?! i am fucking crying!! i love turtles and theese ching chong bali bitches are fucking cutting them up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

  • you dont eat sea turtles u stupid mother fucking retards i hate thoose bitches

  • they're not muslim.

    Theyre barbaric. I should no cuz ima full muslim.

  • No matter what nationality you are. You're a human. As humans, we shoudn't tolerate this.

  • i am balinese myself. but these people in the video are just going over bored.

    usually we just use turtle for religous reason which is true.

    BUT these people in the video are just total ass crack. they are just doing it for business. and i still dont understand some of my people why they cant stop the turtle killing.

  • FUCK U PPL in that VIDeo GO HEll Fuckerrssss

    pls stop the killing

    cant u see his/her crying......

    stop that ritual PLLLLLSSSSSSSSS

  • thats hella messed up, seriously.

  • oh my damn! i cant believe you just said that. not all indonesians are muslims, and not all muslims are indonesians that kill. you need to learn that not everyone in one ethnicity does this. indonesia is a mix a various cultures and traditions, some are muslims and some arent. and bali isnt an islamic island, they have there own beliefs.

    get the facts right before you start bullshiting crap about ones culture. ALL OF YOU!!!

  • more muslime scum!!!

    i hate them!!!!!!

  • I'm sure that no god will say yes to cruel killings

  • well tell you all we dont kill them any more..we protect them.. so pls...religion n belief has their way to offer their god..

  • bullshit.

  • This whole damn country needs to be Nuked!!! God damned cowards!!!

  • yeh buddy :)

  • i'm lost. my computer doesnt show the response in order. im pretty beat right now and i really dont feel like reading two pages of comments.

    as much as i would like right what i think is wrong around here, real life calls. currently, real life requires of me to take the leave. to the sack i go.

    lights4vr, please try to maintain the moron-level around these parts.

    the morons we know now do not need to multiply. i'd like to read the pages through when i get back. make it as few as possibl

  • This really pissed me off that these barbaric assholes would do this to this creature in the name of religion (god) and to satisfy their pallets. Fucking bastards.

  • Then stop eating chicken or beef. They bleed and suffer when they die too you moron.

  • Hey moron - I am very well aware of what happens to animals raised for food, particularily at slaughter. I'm an animal rights activist working to ease that suffering; what do you do besides mouth-off & make assumptions? Besides the comment above addresses what cruelties are imposed on animals in the name of religion; some excuse right?

  • The west uses religion to justify the abusing, killing and eating of animals too you moron. It happens just as much in the west too you moron. So i guess in your assumptions, they're barbaric, Which is pretty idiotic.

  • Hey king of morons, aside from the fact you are obsessed with the West, any religion from anywhere that subscribes to animal sacrafice & commits such acts as cruel as this one is barbaric - I don't give a shit if they are in the East or the West. And which religions in the West do what you claim they do? The idiocy here is your meager attempt to reply that is obviously not from an educated perspective.

  • thanks captain obvious, I hope you stop eating meat too .

  • No one has a cultural right to do what is done to these beautiful peaceful creatures. No culture no where. This is about money. If this was so above board, why do they try to hide it? Dispicable and barbaric.