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I know this is a teddy bear site but I know most of you are animal lovers and I wanted to draw attention to Tescos new supermarkets in China.It has been on tv and I have attached a link.They are selling live stock such as turtles mutilated and boiled alive in store.I for one will never set foot in a tesco again and hope others may feel the same.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Diane xxx
I don't know Tescos. Is it a European supermarket, also in China? I don't think we have them in the states.
Turtles boiled alive? How cruel!
Flying Fur StudiosYUCK! I've never heard of this store before, but it just makes me sick that today, people still think it's ok to torture animals.
Dolls N DreamsWe don't have them here in the states. But shame on them. That is terrible. I hope some organization can stop them.
Tescos is our most popular supermarket and make billions every year.They have come out top in several polls over here.I am hoping people will boycott them for this.It has been on our national news so fingers crossed people take notice.
There is an online petition by an animal charity if anyone feels strongly.Sorry to be on my soapbox.I just can stop raging ,cant even sew!!!
Hugs Diane xxx
Actually, you DO have them in the States - they are just breaking into the US market and are mainly focused in the CA area, I think. Taking a deep breath here, but... how is selling live turtles different to selling live crabs and lobsters? Which also happens in the UK and Europe (I can't speak for the US because I don't know). I personally wouldn't eat a turtle - and I wouldn't want to make friends with a crab or lobster before I ate it, either! - but I guess Tesco is having to bow to local cultural traditions to gain a toehold in the Chinese market. I haven't seen anything about this in the English press yet - which are pretty down on the big supermarkets, so wouldn't pass up an opportunity for knocking them - but, assuming it is true, this is the murky game you have to play to break into new areas, I suppose. It's not pretty, but it's a fact of life, sadly.
Regards,
Christine
Actually, you DO have them in the States - they are just breaking into the US market and are mainly focused in the CA area, I think.
Interesting. Never heard of Tescos myself, but there are certainly plenty of chains that exist in SoCal which we don't have in NorCal. I'll have to look them up.
PS I think it's cruel to boil live crabs and lobsters, too! I don't think it's different at all.
PPS Looks like they're scheduled to open some stores up this year in Cali. Can't find a reference stating that any are actually open yet. Just FYI. Here's a link to a BusinessWeek article I found online: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnf … =rss_daily
Charlotte Des Roches DesignsUnfortunately this kind of stuff is happening all the time..all over the world..unless one has a totally vegan diet...they participate in the end result of the cruelty 
Diane..I'd rather starve than buy from Tesco..I hate them with a passion. I go to anywhere before I go there...they are as unscrupulous as Ming the Merciless and have bought up land which sits decaying just to stop other shops buying it. It doesn't surprise me in the least..and I know what people are saying about other cultures being provided for ..but they already are, with profitable businesses run very well by the communities themselves ...Tesco's is just trying to wipe every other shop out here in the UK..and overseas...Like I say..I'd rather starve.
LutonI think its disgusting that they are selling live turtles.
Apart from the fact I wouldn't eat a lobster or a crab either, there should be practices in place for the most humane way to treat these creatures and dropping them in a pot of boiling water isn't one of them!!!!
Where is this petition - I would sign !!!
Claire
Posts: 1,836Diane..I'd rather starve than buy from Tesco..I hate them with a passion. I go to anywhere before I go there...they are as unscrupulous as Ming the Merciless and have bought up land which sits decaying just to stop other shops buying it.
Ugh, doesn't this just make you so angry!! 
In my surrounding areas we have super sizes strips malls that come in with a passionate furry and then fizzle out leaving empty wasted store space sitting behind. The kicker is that most times when big name stores come in they really DON'T plan on sticking around...they're doing it for large corporate tax breaks. So if you see a large chain shop going into a location that's seen plenty of turnover OR a large chain going in where it just doesn't make sense (2 doors down from the competition for example) they're not there to build up or better the community, they're there to take the money and run..literally.
After having turtles in our gardens as a kid and caring for them, I can't even imagine boiling a live turtle.
:hug:
~Chrissi
OMG!! That is awful! We used to have a pet turtle that we raised from an egg......and I just can't imagine someone doing something like that! I think it's just as bad with crabs and lobsters too. Cruel and inhumane. We don't have this store here, but our major food chain stores used to carry the live lobsters. They don't anymore, and I'm glad. I always hated seeing them in the tanks. 
Matilda Huggington-bearethe whole business is disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I very much doubt there has ever been a creature on this earth more foul than a HUMAN.
I sign petitions donate and feed the critters in my garden just to appease my guilt. :redface:
Wendy
Matilda Huggington-beareIts illegal in Australia to boil any creature alive and that means LOBSTERS.
Maybe a list of the shareholders should be circulated and each and everyone of them publicly embarrassed.
Just a thought. I wonder how many of us have shares in Tescos without even knowing.?
I'm talking about our investment porfolios.
Drea's BearsIts illegal in Australia to boil any creature alive and that means LOBSTERS.
Maybe a list of the shareholders should be circulated and each and everyone of them publicly embarrassed.
Just a thought. I wonder how many of us have shares in Tescos without even knowing.?
I'm talking about our investment porfolios.
Wendy is it really illegal to boil lobsters?????? How very interesting! I think it's great but how do people prepare their lobsters then?..........I don't eat lobster by the way, but I have seen it on tv 
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Poor turtles and all of the other animals we dont even know about
AndreaM
P.S Off topic but, this is the first time I've actually got the 'quote thing' to work......how sad is that?
Delartful BearsThis is just terrible. It makes me sick what humans do. I just can't believe it sometimes.
I will sign also. Luckily we don't have Tescos here!!!!!!!
Danni
Its gratifiying to see you all care so much.
With reference to Christines point.Ifind any boiling of a live creature vile especially since if you put a crab or lobster in a freezer it becmes commatose and can be boiled pain free.Still hideous to me but better.A turtle has the same nerve endings etc as a mammal and local custom or not desemboweling it pulling it from its shell and leaving it to take hours to die or boiling it alive all done by a bittish company is not on.By that thinking any brittish company or citizen can ignore the moral codes and legalities of back home while abroad and live the same way.That would mean tescos boiling kittens and puppies alive in Vietnam ,would that be sad but fine since its local custom.
I am with the rest of you on this and dont see that as any kind of excuse and if we all turn a blind eye to this sort of thing it goes on.We cant change other countries practises as easily but we can stop supporting our own companies.I hope they get hurt by this.
Jennie love you by the way!!!(in a totally appropriate way)
Diane xxx
Laurie Lou BearsThings like this are appalling and disgusting as all animals should be treated with the respect that they deserve and the human race is the worst for the fact that they should know better.
Laurie :hug:
Unfortunately this kind of stuff is happening all the time..all over the world..unless one has a totally vegan diet...they participate in the end result of the cruelty :cry:
I hope that day will come when we all no longer eat animal products but till it does I think things as macabre as this must be stopped.It is getting so hard to be a veggie these days as they add weird stuff to things.I get weary reading all the small print.I tend to grow most of my own veg as they were putting scorpion genes in tomatos for a while????
It turns out Walmart ha as a simlar role in China.This link explains the effect on the environment as well as the cruelty aspect.
I will shut up now!!!!
http://www.tortoisetrust.org/activities/tesco.html
PottersHouse BearsIt sickens me to hear of such cruelty. I will tell you my turtle story. Several years ago my husband worked with a man who loved turtle soup. Our neighbors gave my husband a huge turtle they had found with the intention of this man making soup out of it. My husband put the turtle in a box in his car to take with him the next morning. After my husband was sound asleep, my son (he was 5 years old at the time) and I went to the car and let the turtle loose. It was not easy getting that big guy out of the car, he was a snapping turtle. But we did, and come morning there was only an empty box. One turtle set free.
Posts: 2,203I wont even touch lobster or crab for that very reason. Scared me to death as as child! Poor turtles! I am not a vegitarian but I don't wear fur and I don't eat alot of meat. We should show respect for animals and not stand for that kind of treatment.
Newcastle, OntarioDiane,
I've missed this thread - where do we sign? Can someone post a link here? I want my name on that petition. I'm not a vegetarian, but this is inhumane!
hugs,
Brenda
Newcastle, OntarioMillie,
Good for you and you son, saving that poor turtle. When we lived in our last house, the development was built on a site where snapping turtles used to lay their eggs. We often found them on our lawns, and big ones too. We used snow shovels to take them back to the creek. I was always afraid my cats would come across one, as they can be quite dangerous, but they certainly have as much right to live here on earth as the rest of us. I had many pet turtles as a child, before they were banned because of salmonella.
hugs,
Brenda
