Email em' and let em know! Seaquarium Staff lunched on Turtle

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Perhaps they should be flooded with emails. Let them know

you don't eat someone you (are supposed to) care for.

 

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--- Bliss <bliss wrote:

> SEAQUARIUM LUNCHED ON TURTLE

>

> from the National Post (http://www.nationalpost.com)

>

> 'They ate a patient,' dolphin activist says

>

>

> Mary Vallis

> National Post

>

> A Florida lawyer may sue the Miami Seaquarium after

> learning its employees lunched on an endangered turtle

> they had originally tried to save.

>

> " I don't know why people in the business would display

> such an appalling lack of sensitivity towards animals in

> their care, but they did, " said Mary O'Donnell, a Boca

> Raton lawyer who works with the Animal Legal Defense

> Fund.

>

> Activists dubbed the aquarium " the Miami Seaquarium and

> Barbeque " after the turtle-eating affair came to light

> last week.

>

> " This is a facility that portrays itself as a saviour of

> animals, a refuge, a turtle hospital, " said Russ Rector,

> president of the Dolphin Freedom Foundation.

>

> " They ate a patient. "

>

> Members of the Miami Beach Patrol found the 800-pound

> leatherback struggling in the deep water off Miami Beach

> last April. A boat's propeller had gouged the turtle's

> thick shell seven times, so they captured it and took it

> to the aquarium for treatment.

>

> The turtle, a female bearing eggs, died from its

> injuries minutes after she was transferred to a holding

> tank.

>

> Ryan Stollmeyer, an animal care assistant, asked a

> veterinarian for a chunk of the turtle's meat to take

> home. A turtle keeper who overheard the exchange assumed

> he was kidding.

>

> " [He] was talking about taking some of the leatherback

> being necropsied home to make stew with, " Meghan Conti,

> who has since left the aquarium, wrote in a letter to

> wildlife authorities.

>

> " I was invited over for some stew, and I declined, still

> under the impression that it was a joke. "

>

> Mr. Stollmeyer took three bags of leatherback meat out

> of the aquarium with the consent of Dr. Maya Dougherty,

> the aquarium's veterinarian, and Chris Plante, his

> supervisor, Ms. Conti reported.

>

> The following day, Mr. Stollmeyer shared leftovers from

> his turtle meal with Mr. Plante during their lunch

> break.

>

> The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

> investigated the incident, but no charges were filed.

> The state permit governing the aquarium's dead turtle

> disposal was vague in its wording, said Lieutenant John

> West, an investigating officer.

>

> Robert Rose, the aquarium's curator, circulated a memo

> reminding staff not to eat the animals.

>

> " It's an outrageous event, " he said.

>

> " There's nothing legally wrong with what we did, but

> it's an ethical issue. As the caretakers of animals, we

> need to be responsible for them both alive and dead. "

>

> Ms. O'Donnell, however, said a review of the aquarium's

> files could give rise to a lawsuit focusing on its

> treatment of wildlife. She would represent leatherback

> turtles, as a species, in court.

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