slaughtered turtle

I had a dream I was in some kind of out door market and I was walking around and saw a man with him machete cutting up a big huge turtle the turtle was laying on her back and her shell was gone. I felt extremely bad I knew he was cutting the turtle to sell the meat I felt terrible and sorry for the animal it was so defenseless. I saw the deep huge cuts but the turtle wasnt bleeding it just had deep cuts all white meat with no blood what so ever. I started saying leave the turtle alone just kill those snakes I hate snakes kill them. I felt extremely bad I wanted to do something but the turtle was dead already.