“India Wants to Use Flesh-Eating Turtles to Rid the Ganges River of Decomposing Bodies”
The Ganges
River in India is a very spiritual and worshiped body of water. About 1 billion
Hindus bathe in the river in hopes of cleansing their sins. Bathing in the
sacred River isn’t the best idea though, for it is considered one of the world’s
most polluted waterways. The article states that “A billion gallons of raw
sewage and industrial waste currently pour into it every day.” The Indian
government has “worked” to solve the pollution issue, but very little results
have been seen. Their plans included breeding and releasing thousands of
flesh-eating turtles into the river “to deal with the 200 tons of
half-cremated, decomposing bodies that Hindus place in the river at Varanasi
every year.”
In my
opinion, the flesh-eating turtles seem like a bad idea, and shouldn’t be
introduced into the environment. Once they consume all the bodies in the river,
they will have to get food another way. The turtles would most likely attack
and eat those individuals who go there to bathe. In addition, they would probably
venture onto land and eat the humans that live there causing many more environmental
issues than the ones that already exist.
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AHHHHHH!!! I was totally creeped out by the title of your post!!! Sounds like a crazy version of Cane Toads.
ReplyDeleteAs interesting as this is, I don't like the idea of a flesh-eating turtle. They might eat the corpses, but I would hate to be the guy that decides to take a quick dip in the river only to find a turtle nibbling on something it shouldn't.
ReplyDeleteI like that instead of targeting the pollution at the factories, they are sending turtles to consume decomposing corpses.
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