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But the livestock is the main reason of extinction of a lot of other species.
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You know that consumption is the only reason why cows arent "endangered", right?
Meh, whatever
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Cows are also milked, not just slaughtered. Furthermore Indians a special respect towards them. So they are on the safe side. Which you can't say about turtles.
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Krokodiller eter skilpadder. De er dyr, ikke uhyrer.
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In Denmark, and maybe in the other Scandinavian countries, Skilpadder are chocolate candies http://shop.toms.dk/Produkter-1.aspx?ProductID=PROD110 SO maybe this is the reason we have such a sentence !
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turtles had a rather infectious ad campaign in Canada when I was a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_(chocolate)
But most commonly made by Nestle so possibly also evil.
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Funny, how horrified the people can be about those who eat turtles, dogs, 'mice', snakes, etc. but they think it's extremely normal devour cows. In some places the people eat whales meat, what's the deal... ? To my mind is the same... !
No one keeps a whale or cow as a pet so anthropomorphism doesnt apply to them, therefore its not considered taboo to eat them. It is considered taboo to eat a pet animal like the ones you mentioned. Hope that helps :)
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I don't criticise them for eating snakes, mice (although it's kinda gross because they spread illnesses), but I do criticise them for eating animals like cats and dogs, that have been domesticated by the humans millions of years ago. I hate even more the fact that people eat animals like turtles or whales, that are endangered.
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De er Shredder, Bebop en Rocksteady.
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No, for some reason even though they are different animals, they are both "skilpadde"
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I've noticed this not only in Norwegian, but also in Polish, Esperanto, German, Dutch and Spanish. I imagine that if one needed to distinguish in one of those languages, one would have to add the word for "sea" (for turtle) or "land" (for tortoise). If I am translating from Norwegian into English, I usually use "tortoise" and Duolingo counts it as correct.
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Can any Portuguese speaker explain me what a tortoise is? Is it a "cágado"? I mean, cágados live on land.
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Why do you need a Portuguese speaker to explain what the English word "tortoise" means? I am English, and I can tell you that you are correct. A tortoise is a creature with a hard shell that lives on land. A similar creature that lives in the sea is called a turtle. Norwegian, and several other languages I have come across, including French, Dutch and Esperanto, use the same word for both.
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Why, oh why... although, Shakespeare says “I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.” Maybe these are them...
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I like how you seem to speak fluent English yet you're taking English in another language
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It's not strange when you watch "Babette's Feast" (Babettes gæstebud) - a danish movie where Babette cooks a turtle soup :D
