St. Maarten Private Eye

About the turtles: when I attended elementary school, I sometimes heard kids talk about how they had been so lucky in finding turtle-eggs on the beach and how they had prepared them for dinner and had had a wonderful meal out of it. I was horrified and tried to get my classmates to understand that what they had done was very cruel and also, that the defenseless turtles are an endangered species; I found myself alone. No one shared my view and all I got were angry faces. The teacher later told me that I was wrong to say something about their turtle-egg-eating-tradition. I didn't know what to do; was I really wrong? I couldn't believe it, so I decided to remain mute whenever again I would hear such a story.
I still find it a stomach turning tradition and don't think it belongs in a civilized world.

NB: this was only six years ago.

We can not really compare the consumption of turtle-eggs with cock-fighting, because turtles are an endangered species and cocks aren’t. One offers you pleasure/entertainment and the other a meal, so it’s hard to compare the two. But they do have some things in common, like the intolerable cruelty involved and that they are both completely dispensable and uncivilized.
So, therefore the government ought to forbid these acts of cruelty towards animals by law.