How to buy a animal keychain and set them free

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This was a comment from the r/iamatotalpieceofshit thread:

They eat this species of turtle alive which supposed to bring luck.. the turtle I forgot name becomes functionally paralyzed meaning it can move limbs but can’t walk or anything when it has been out of water for at and over 12 hrs so the practice is to douse in sauce that has a lot of vinegar and helps peel remove the shell easier which after produces a rhythmic grunting which a certain sub culture would chant along with these miniature hand held drums as they cut into the live animals and remove organs to further douse in sauce and eat alive pretty much is the controversial delicatessen. When the grunting dies down the rest is of the turtle is smashed with a mallet to complete the consumption ritual which supposedly grants good liver and kidney health. It’s sick but the culture is surprisingly non Chalant about it and treats it as an activity of daily living.

I find your explanation here much, much more believable. I've never heard of anything like in the comment, but there was no pushback at all against it there. Do you or anybody else know if this is actually a thing? Or are they just pulling it out of their ass? My guess it that maybe it happens, but it has nothing to do with the context of this video and is probably even a different species altogether.

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"If nobody buys it, the market will die," she says. Sadly, it is likely that so too will the animals which have already been sealed in their colorful, transparent tombs -- gasping for the final breath of air they've been packaged with, as they peer out to a world in which their lives are considered essentially worthless. And in such a dark hour, it's hard not to believe our very humanity awaits a similar fate.

Because this thread wasn't sad enough. ;_;

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"the key chains are becoming increasingly popular around elementary schools, where they are marketed to students from the stationary shops surrounding campus." I used to buy pencils with cool erasers not suffocating animals.

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GAMERA is coming and boy is he gonna be pissed...

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Thank you, for the source. More people really need context with all these images.

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What exactly is stopping people from cutting them open and releasing the animal? Couldn't you release it and have a much longer living pet? I must be missing the point.

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What will the bag look like when it starts pooping?

Also: I would just cut it open, and have an actual pet instead of a keychain.

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It's nice of you to think of liberating the turtle in such a way, but when you do things like that you're creating a demand for this product, which will ultimately cause other turtles to die. That being said, I would probably feel awful if I didn't try to save at least a few of these turtles if I saw this in real life.

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You make an interesting point there... O_o

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I think that the intention is to have them as a pet, i read a few of these articles and they do not seem really reliable. I think what it is just some weirdly cruel packaging that you get it in, that you can wear around for the day then open up later if you want a pet. Either way this would never happen in Europe or America that is for sure.

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that's exactly what i'd do. I have a turtle, and they're amazing creatures. I wanna falcon punch the president of that company off a bridge.

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If it can't eat it won't poop.