Despite its popularity, America’s love affair with terrapin didn’t last. The turtles were quickly overfished, and development ...

In this case, the lethality did not involve bullets or bombs, but turtles. The deaths came from eating turtle meat which involved the Tedurays, an indigenous people’s community, in the town of Datu ...

Prior to that, in March 2024 on the Tanzanian island of Pemba, nine people died and 78 were hospitalised after consuming sea turtle meat. Chelonitoxism, also known as sea turtle poisoning ...

The Dominican Fisheries and Aquaculture Council (CODOPESCA) has seized 259 pounds of illegally processed leatherback sea turtle meat at a seafood export company. The endangered species, disguised as ...

Sailors prized green turtles as food, as they could be kept live onboard until slaughter, providing a welcomed alternative to salt pork and other preserved staples. Eventually, the demand for green ...

“Turtles around the globe are gravely threatened by the pernicious pet and meat trades, but these U.S. species just got a much better shot at survival.” Sought after as pets or for human consumption, ...

A Brief History of Fat Fads in America, From Nut Margarine to Beef Tallow Turtle meat was part of Indigenous people’s diets in both North America and the Caribbean before Europeans ever arrived ...