"A meal would be a mouthful of turtle meat, followed by drinking its blood. The blood is a little difficult to drink as it congeals - so you have to knock it back. We'd bleed the turtle into a ...

Some weighed as much as 300 pounds. Soup made from these turtles' meat was often sold pre-made to cooks working in wealthy households, as crafting it at home was difficult. Since the turtles were ...

Cultivated meat may be “safely” marketed as nuggets and burgers, but, in principle, the options are endless: Curious consumers could sample lab-grown whale or turtle meat guilt-free ...

Look for beef that's firm to the touch. Avoid wet, slimy meat and meat with a greenish-grey tinge and an 'off' smell. Always check the 'use by' dates on pre-packed meat. Colour is often cited as a ...

We turn to them for healing: Turtle meat in West Africa was once believed to fight leprosy, and bathing in a broth of loggerhead plastron, the bony undershell, was considered a tonic for lung ...

Green turtles are listed as an endangered species. Despite this, they are still killed for their meat and eggs. Their numbers are also reduced by boat propeller accidents, fishnet-caused drowning ...

For roasting, choose meat that's still on the bone - it has more flavour and is less prone to drying out during cooking. Likewise the best roasting joints are usually ones that aren't too lean.

KOTA KINABALU: The 9,000kg of dried sea turtle meat seized by police would likely be from about 360 adult sea turtles, says conservationist Dr James Alin. The marine police seizure of the dried ...

They might not look like voracious killers, but some turtle species are actually important predators that help to keep ocean food chains healthy. For example, hawksbill turtles eat lots of sea sponges ...

At least eight children have died and 78 adults have fallen sick after eating sea turtle meat on Panza Islet, Pemba Island in Tanzania's Zanzibar, an official said Friday. Haji Bakari Haji ...