Most countries in the world have no habit of eating soft-shelled turtles, especially Europeans and Americans, and even Africans don't eat soft-shelled turtles. Generally speaking, they only eat East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Turtle, also known as turtle, is a very high-grade food in China, and there are also turtle dishes in Japan.
India is one of the origins of soft-shelled turtles. There is a turtle named Ganges in South Asia. In fact, soft-shelled turtles are widely distributed in natural water systems of South Asian countries and a few water systems in southwest China.
In China, the Ganges soft-shelled turtle belongs to the first-class protection, while the overseas Ganges soft-shelled turtle is strictly forbidden to enter.
The Ganges turtle has no natural enemies in India and its reproductive ability is amazing. The Ganges and other river basins have almost reached the point of flooding. Therefore, India also wanted to export to earn foreign exchange to control the Ganges, but no one dared to buy it at all.
Ganges soft-shelled turtles are mainly distributed in the Ganges, but also in the water systems of Nepal, Pakistan and other countries. There are also many individuals in the Yarlung Zangbo River water system.
From the appearance, the Ganges soft-shelled turtle is not much different from the soft-shelled turtle we usually see.
It mainly means that there are many dark lines on the body of Ganges soft-shelled turtle, and it is bigger. Its shell is bigger and harder than that of China soft-shelled turtle, which is a bit like a turtle.
In India, Trionyx sinensis is a magical aquatic creature, because besides giant catfish, the largest number of Trionyx sinensis in the Ganges is probably Trionyx sinensis, which almost occupies the whole Ganges.
Needless to say, the giant catfish is fierce and eats carrion, which is useless at all. In fact, the Ganges turtle is not much better. There are few natural enemies in the Ganges River system, which is an aquatic creature at the top of the food chain.
In fact, Indians generally don't eat turtles, but there are too many turtles in the Ganges and other water bodies. Large-scale floods have indeed caused problems, such as hindering other aquatic species.
In order to deal with Ganges turtles, India has tried its best, and India has also thought about fishing and exporting Ganges turtles to earn foreign exchange.
However, as soon as this idea came out, no other country bought it at all, watching the Ganges tortoise in India shake its head.
First of all, the countries and regions that mainly eat soft-shelled turtles in the world are basically concentrated in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially the Han cultural circle. There are not many countries such as South Korea, China, Vietnam and Japan are the most, and India can only export here.
However, due to many reasons, East Asia's impression of India's environment and the quality of agricultural products was very eye-catching. They did not believe that Indian Ganges turtles could be eaten, so they refused.
In China, the wild soft-shelled turtle of Ganges belongs to the first-class protection, but it is forbidden to enter overseas. 20 18 A Ganges turtle from Bangladesh was intercepted in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and it was directly destroyed without pollution.
Ganges soft-shelled turtle is rare in China. Once the foreign population breeds, the consequences are unimaginable.
In India, the Ganges soft-shelled turtle inherits almost all the advantages of the tortoise, not only has a life span of nearly a hundred years, but also has amazing fertility and strong vitality. In places like the Ganges, they can also breed on a large scale.
Once such a behemoth enters our country, it is bound to cause more serious consequences than scavengers, tilapia, Chinese alligator eels and Brazilian turtles.
Many species flooded in China were introduced as food or pets in the early days, but some people released them, which is very easy to cause species invasion and difficult to control, so they can only be strictly controlled from the root.
Of course, this is not the main reason. China imports a large number of soft-shelled turtles and soft-shelled turtles from Southeast Asia every year, which are also widely used for food and medicine. The reason why Indian Ganges turtles are treated differently is that Indian turtles are terrible.
Ganges soft-shelled turtle, the soft-shelled turtle produced in Ganges, is covered in toxins, and no one dares to speak at all.
Ganges is the largest river in South Asia and the mother river of India. However, this world-famous river is also famous for its serious pollution. No big river in the world can compare with the pollution of Ganges.
You know, there are nearly one billion people living in the entire Ganges River basin, and unimaginable pollutants are discharged into the Ganges River.
In the early days, the Ganges basically met the natural water standards promulgated by the United Nations. However, since India's large-scale industrial development in 1980s, the pollution of Ganges River has risen rapidly and finally got out of control.
In the Ganges River basin, there are the most heavy industrial cities in India, and there are so many highly polluting industries such as textiles, printing and dyeing, leather and chemicals that it is difficult for the Ganges River not to be polluted.
Moreover, the pollution from many factories in India is directly discharged into the Ganges without treatment at all.
As the sacred river of India, Hindus have extraordinary feelings for the Ganges. They like to bathe in the Ganges. The most terrible thing is that they think that after leaving this world, they will be thrown into the Ganges River in order to enter heaven faster.
Because of these strange traditional cultures, there are countless relics in the Ganges, which are creepy and dirty at the same time.
For various reasons, the Ganges River in India has become a highly toxic river. In yamuna river and other tributaries of the Ganges, fish and shrimp have even been extinct for many years. Naturally, no one dares to eat the Ganges turtle from such a poisonous river.
The water of Ganges River is full of all kinds of deadly bacteria. The United Nations conducted a survey of the waters of the Ganges River. After analysis, it is concluded that bathing in the Ganges will increase the risk of infection by 80 times compared with normal water.
Not only that, all the fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs in the Ganges contain an amazing amount of toxins and are not edible at all.
Ganges soft-shelled turtle itself is a carnivorous omnivorous aquatic creature, and likes to eat all kinds of small fish and shrimp, as well as carrion. The Ganges has almost no natural enemies, and it often preys everywhere.
As a creature in the upper reaches of the food chain, the Ganges turtle certainly accumulates the most toxins.
Even if India tries its best to put in a good word, it can't export Ganges turtles as food. No normal country will put poisonous Ganges turtles into its own market, which is too dangerous.
Indian Ganges soft-shelled turtle is certainly edible, but you have to go through two customs to enjoy such "delicious" Indian food. Indian Ganges soft-shelled turtle is a unique soft-shelled turtle. They are big, breed fast, and have almost no natural enemies in the territory of the Ganges. Asians can be said to be the only hobby group in the world, and they eat in a variety of ways.
However, for the Ganges soft-shelled turtle, it is estimated that no one in Asian countries dares to eat it except Indians, including China, which is famous for eating food all over the world.
The Ganges soft-shelled turtle mainly lives in the Ganges River valley in India. They are very big, almost invincible in the Ganges, without any natural enemies (except in rare areas where crocodiles are found), and their reproductive ability is too strong. The old ones are not dead. They have been bred for many generations. The crux of the matter is that Indians have always regarded them as sacred, not only not killing them, but also feeding them often. The status of Ganges turtle in India is almost the same as that of cattle.
In bos, the frontalis muscle is fine. They are herbivores, but the Ganges turtle is different. They eat everything, including small fish, shrimp, aquatic plants and shells. Of course, they also have a unique food-carrion.
The pollution of the Ganges is world-famous, not to mention that most industrial sewage in India is directly discharged into the Ganges, and almost all domestic sewage is directly discharged into it. It is said that most of the dead Indians were also thrown into the river. Some Indians are environmentally conscious. They burn the bodies to ashes and scatter them into the Ganges. Some people are careless and just throw their bodies into the Ganges.
This "mother river" that Indians are proud of has become a sewer for all Indians and a sacred river for them. The question is, this river is so polluted, does the Ganges have such a powerful purification function?
Indeed, at least a large part of carrion was eaten by Ganges turtles. A large number of omnivores even feel that there is not enough food. Once a rotting corpse floated down, and many Ganges turtles swarmed on it and ate it.
The Ganges River is seriously polluted by water, which contains numerous harmful substances such as heavy metals. Ganges carrion is full of all kinds of poisonous and harmful bacteria, but these are nothing in the eyes of Ganges turtles. It tastes delicious, and the longer it is, the bigger it will be.
The Ganges soft-shelled turtle grows in this environment. Who dares to eat? To eat this turtle food, you must go through two levels: 1, the physiological level, and your physical quality is enough to bear all kinds of heavy metals and toxic substances carried in the Ganges turtle; 2, psychological clearance, that thing has eaten similar bodies.
Therefore, many countries will not only import Indian Ganges soft-shelled turtle as food, but even strictly prohibit the entry of this species. For example, China absolutely forbids the entry of Ganges soft-shelled turtle.
Ganges turtles can only survive in this magical country of India.
In order to solve this problem, India once tried to export to China, trying to make huge profits while solving the flood problem. Fortunately, China saw through everything and stopped it in time.
The Ganges River in India is the mother river of India and the holy river in the eyes of Indians. So Indians believe that all creatures in the Ganges are God's people, and they can't be hurt or eaten. Coupled with adequate food sources and rich "nutrients", it has led to the rapid development and reproduction of various organisms, which has been flooding until now.
You may not believe that the Ganges turtle flooding the Ganges River in India is actually a national first-class protected animal in our country. Even so, we will never accept the Ganges turtle from Ganges, India, because the Ganges turtle here is already a different kind of existence.
In the Ganges River in India, the old turtle is much bigger than other places. The weight of an old soft-shelled turtle in Ganges can reach tens of kilograms, ranging from 70 cm to 100 cm, which is several times that of ordinary wild soft-shelled turtle. The Ganges turtle is a well-deserved giant turtle. Don't look at the dirty Ganges. The old turtle can live to be over 70 years old here, even 100 years old. It can be seen how tenacious the Ganges turtle is.
The main reasons for the flooding of Trionyx sinensis in Ganges River are irregular food intake by Indians and abundant food in Ganges River. If Indians don't eat, there will be no natural enemies, and they can breed happily with peace of mind. Although the Ganges soft-shelled turtle only lays eggs once a year, it can lay as many as 50 eggs at a time, and the old soft-shelled turtle will be protected until the young soft-shelled turtle can find food independently, which greatly improves their viability. For all kinds of reasons, it is natural for the Ganges turtle to flood, so I'm sorry if it doesn't flood.
So generally speaking, Indians don't eat soft-shelled turtles in the Ganges, and they have almost no natural enemies and become the dominant figures in the Ganges. Moreover, they have strong reproductive ability and viability, and at the same time, they have a long life span and rich food resources, so they don't worry about having nothing to eat at all. Therefore, it is understandable that the old Ganges turtle is flooding.
Generally speaking, soft-shelled turtles have high nutritional value and delicious meat, especially wild soft-shelled turtles. And the older you get, the bigger the wild turtles are, and the harder it is to meet them. It stands to reason that the old and big Ganges turtle should be very popular with people. However, the reality is just the opposite.
1, the Ganges River where turtles live gives people a very bad impression. If you eat Ganges turtles, you are under great psychological pressure.
India and our intuitive impression of the Ganges is that it is dirty and messy, and the health problems are very bad. Indians, in particular, throw bodies into the Ganges. If you think this old turtle grew up eating human flesh, you will be afraid in your heart, let alone eat it. Eating this kind of old turtle feels like eating human flesh, and even thinking about it will cause serious psychological shadow. Do you dare to eat?
2. The Ganges turtle itself contains a large number of bacteria and viruses, which will bring diseases to human beings.
Ganges can be said to be one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Although it is the mother river of India, their "protection" of the Ganges is very special.
Indians bathing in the Ganges is nothing, nothing compared with other things. People in India should have heard of water burial. They left the bodies of the dead and animals in the Ganges River, and all kinds of garbage were thrown into the Ganges River, so it was easy to breed all kinds of bacteria and viruses, which were the food sources of the old turtle. How many bacteria and viruses do you think there will be in the old turtle?
In addition, the sewage discharged from Indian factories is also discharged into the Ganges River, and many of them have not passed the treatment, so not only are there many bacteria and viruses, but also heavy metals exceed the standard. Imagine that the old turtle has lived in this environment for a long time, and these bacteria and viruses have soaked into their bodies. Are you sure you dare to eat this kind of food?
Don't be fooled by the so-called health tonic. Even if turtles really have that high value, it is more aimed at ordinary freshwater turtles than the ancient Ganges turtles in India. Not only can't the Ganges turtle take tonic, but it is also harmful to your health, and in severe cases it may even kill you. The old turtles living in the Ganges are all proper "old poisons". Everyone must be vigilant and not be deceived. Don't think this old turtle is too big to eat.
At the same time, I hope that the relevant departments must properly supervise and do not give these invasive species any opportunity. Once found, it should be stopped immediately. Everyone should protect our primitive ecosystem and the healthy development of nature.
To sum up, I think even if India intends to export the Ganges turtle abroad, no one will eat it, because it is not human food at all, don't you think?
Everything that is not poisonous can be eaten, even monsters can eat it. Even poisonous food is now eaten by many people, especially in China.
In fact, monsters have been eaten a lot by China people. Eating less is called tonic, eating more is called death.