Agreed Tom. This reminds me of a guy that came here, a "biologist" if you will to give a workshop about aracnology and he brough a tarantula with him. At one point we were searching for bugs outside, I cauth a big grasshoper and he sugested that we used it as T food, nothing wrong with it and the T rapidly acepted it. Later that afternoon I was talking to the guy wich I though was a very open minded person, well gess what? He was the most arrogant being in this planet! I was talking about the important conservation role the aquarium and terrarium hobby had this days (I mencioned classic storys like white cloud minows, iranian newts and I even mentioned Pere David´s deer wich was sort of a pet back then) and he said that it had a "huge amount of bad inpact", that we were messing with the carbon cycles (oh please) and that even our early on feeding of a wild grasshoper to a non native spider was wrong?!

I hope that you havent find many unreasenable thoughs in my statement early on, my only goal would be for example that we here stoped seing malnourished and dying baby sliders straingh from the importer and knowing that they are going to be selled for such a cheap price that they are considered disposable pets. If they are released for our waters, that can create alot of bad press. I dont like baby green igs in that situation either but in their situation at least wild populations are being preserved both by introductions from farms and by creating a alternative source of ig meat for locals, as well as much needed jobs and education. If I had to chouse for all Cyclura taxa between the situation they currently are and the situation green igs are, I would defenetly go for the second one, the beneficts are inmence, its just some edges that need to be trimend

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