Insight Pocket Guide Cayman Islands (Insight Pocket Guide Cayman Islands, 1st Ed)

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Summary: "Insight to Sea Turtles & Stingrays etc!" by RexCurry.net
Review: Loved it, and nice photos too. The book also reveals that sea turtles are farmed and available to eat in restaurants in the Cayman Islands for soups, stews, steaks, fritters and turtle burgers.

As an attorney, I am asked if there is a legal way to eat sea turtles in the U.S. and I know of no way, and the government will jail someone for a felony for merely handling a sea turtle. As the book reveals, if you are a U.S. citizen, then you can legally eat sea turtles only if you leave the U.S. to visit countries that are more libertarian about turtles (e.g. the Cayman Islands).

The farm also has a petting zoo and produces shells and other turtle products. Farms bring turtles closer to everyone's heart (inside the stomach).

The journalist and historian Rex Curry has written about how the U.S. government imposed socialistic laws that almost destroyed the Cayman Islands turtle farm, and those laws still harm turtles in the U.S. and prevent turtle farms. Wood's book also mentions that. Turtles are cold-blooded, but not as cold-blooded as bureaucrats.

If you are from the U.S. and buy turtle products, then your government will confiscate your property when you return to your own country, and that is the least that your U.S. Customs will do to you. The U.S. wasn't always a socialist police state. Liberty helps turtles and the people who love them (to eat).

The book could use more info on conching (harvesting and eating conchs) another activity that is available in the Cayman Islands, but no longer possible in the U.S. even in Key West, the "Conch Republic" where all conch dishes are made from imported conch (imported from the Cayman Islands?).

The book also covers the wonderful Stingray City, which appears to be another great opportunity for farming (farming stingrays).