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When I asked - was it a month ago? - about feeding pork to my three-toed box turtle, someone, I think it was Steph, said to avoid it because of the naturally high content of pork even if salt is not added between the butcher shop and when it shows up in the meat department.

I read an article on, among other things, the effect of temperature on the amount of food per weight of turtle (the one currently with the scientific name Trachemys scripta scripta) was tested.... and the food offered the turtle was bologna! That definitely has salt added. Is the tolerance of salt different between mostly-terrestrial and mostly-aquatic turtles?

Good question....I for one really don't know much about other species of turtles, so there may well be some differences on that regard.

My gut reaction to the study you mentioned is that the person conducting the study was not much interested in the turtle's health if it was being fed bologna!

Jim Harding agreed. He said/wrote:

"Feeding bologna to a turtle is essentially abusive."

Personally, I don't know why they didn't feed the sliders chunks of fish.