PETA regularly receives complaints from caring consumers who are sickened by the hellish conditions endured by turtles, frogs, eels, and other fragile exotic animals sold for human consumption at food markets across the U.S.

Many of these animals are ensnared in the wild, and the nets that trapped them are often still wrapped around their bodies. They suffer unimaginable stress and physical pain during transport. At food markets, where they are peddled like key chains, these animals are crowded together in bins or stacked on top of one another in piles. They are deprived of food, water, and medical attention, and they are forced to languish, often immobile, for hours or even days. Then they are callously bludgeoned or hacked to death. You can view video footage here of the typical conditions in which these animals are kept.

Many of these species are specifically exempted from cruelty-to-animals statutes, which means that they are afforded no protection during confinement and slaughter.

Please contact the markets that, according to the reports that PETA has received, are keeping exotic animals in horrific conditions. Demand that these markets stop selling animals for human consumption.

Please send polite comments to:

Hawaii Supermarket
120 E. Valley Blvd.
San Gabriel, CA 91776
626-307-0062

Grand Asia Market
1253 Buck Jones Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27606-3326
919-468-2988

Great Wall Supermarket
6722 Fort Hamilton Pkwy.
Brooklyn, NY 11219
718-680-2889