Tesco have opened there first store in China and are selling LIVE Turtles. 70% of turtle species are critically endangered and Tesco are now selling hundreds of juveniles in tanks.

Here is a BBC video report, part of which shows the turtles in a Tesco store in China. Look at the larger turtles kept in the high level blue coloured tanks, then the smaller ones kept below. The turtles are kept in these brightly lit cramped conditions while they await their fate of being butchered alive. You can view the video here BBC News Player

Tesco butcher these turtles while they are still alive, with no pre stunning. The procedure used to butcher them is to cut the head off and then to crush it.

Until the head is correctly crushed, destroying the brain, the turtle can remain conscious throughout the procedure. If the head is not correctly crushed, the turtle's severed head can continue to remain conscious for up to an hour before it dies.

These turtles are known to move their neck and head with lightning speed and can easily withdraw into their shell ( shown HERE ). This can make the butchering task very unpredictable and far from easy, only prolonging the pain and suffering of the turtle while it is being butchered ALIVE.

I want pet turtles Can't they just send these turtles over here so people can keep them and be happy?

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That depends if you want a 1.5m long turtle which smells and could potentially kill you in 100 years time.

These turtles are 1.5m long??

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Oh my gosh
thats awful
fucking chinese (no offence to any chinese people)
fucking tesco

stories like this make me really angry...and sick.