9 Tote, 78 weitere ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert, nachdem sie Meeresschildkrötenfleisch auf der Insel Pemba in Sansibar gegessen hatten

46 comments

1. And the zombie outbreak begins.

2. Sea turtles are endangered, stop eating. And if eating them is a tradition in your culture then you need to end the tradition.

3. Tried Shark meat once, couldn’t eat any meat after that for 2 weeks.

4. Narrator: It wasn’t the meat. It was the other sea turtles with the P-90s that came to avenge their friend.

5. It was from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.

   Saved you a click

6. Well I will cross that from my to do list!

7. I thought sea turtle toxins would work a lot more slowly (turtle joke!🤣)

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10. Imagine being so fucken dumb you let your children eat food that is known to kill. Jesus Christ.

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12. Chicken, Turkey, Beef, Lamb, Fish, Crustaceans, Pork.  That’s it.  That is the meat menu. Leave everything else alone. 

13. First they were like wwwwhoa, and then they were like whoooah, and then they were like whoa

14. Eating sea turtles, shrinks your testicles

15. People should read the article before condoning and celebrating the deaths of 8 children. Do the work. Don’t be assholes.

16. Karma

17. >Chelonitoxism or chelonitoxication is a type of food poisoning which occasionally results from eating turtles, particularly marine turtles, in the region of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans

    [Chelonitoxism wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonitoxism)

    TLDR : don’t eat turtles

18. Now can we use plastic straws? /s

19. Turtle power.

20. Why people eat such weird food, there is also those crazy people that like to eat pufferfish which is very dangerous to eat

21. Hey, don’t eat sea turtles… they’re cool.

22. Why are people eating turtles to begin with?

23. Guess I won’t be ordering THAT from Zanzibar!

24. Wth dont eat turtles they are cool.

25. This pleases Mitch McConnell.

26. Good, stop killing animals

27. Stop eating random animals ! The World doesnt need another Covid

28. This is why we don’t smash turtles perchance

29. Read the headline and was immediately thinking it was related to Metal gear solid

30. comments here like omg i cant believe ppl who live on a tiny african island would do this

31. Turtles aren’t food.

32. Cue Billy Joel, “Zanzibar” when reading the comments.

33. Sea Turtles mate, savvy?

34. It was the salmon mousse!

35. Excellent. Not enough though

36. Pemba island,hmm won’t dine there anytime soon.

37. They likely ate a hawksbill sea turtle. Very few sea turtles become poisonous for consumption, but the hawksbill does because it feeds on toxic sponges as part of its diet.

    The hawksbill are critically endangered, and their biggest threats are poaching for its shell, consumption of meat, and entanglement/accidental catch.

    You can eat them safely the majority of the time, but if you take a turtle that has consumed that specific sponge then even after cooking the meat will be deadly.

    Do yourself a favor and never eat endangered animals

38. Sticking to land tortoise then.

39. The *Green* Shell Incident

40. Wowwww I feel sooooo bad

41. This happens pretty regularly… like every few years…. very surprised that they keep eating sea turtles. What is the education system like over there?

42. Near the end of the wiki: While standard hospital toxicology screens detected no known toxins, stomach contents of hospitalized patients fed to small laboratory animals killed the animals.

43. Good. Don’t eat endangered animals, assholes.

44. Good, I hope they suffered

45. Soooo many people sitting on their high horses in here, who probably are JUST now finding out that eating sea turtles is potentially deadly. Expecting this to be some kind of common sense.

46. Serves them right for eating turtle meat