Immoral soup.
April 3rd 2008 02:59
Please accept my apologies in advance, but the time has come for me to make a break from the mindlessly irrelevant for a moment and get up on my soapbox.
Were you aware that an estimated 100 million sharks are slaughtered each year??
Mostly this is due to the insane shark fin trade.
Shark fin soup is a delicacy in most Asian countries and served around the world in restaurants. This dish is so popular and shark fins fetch such a high price on the market that fisher folk maximise their hold space by slicing the fins from the live shark and throwing the animal back overboard.
Sadly, the shark is left to drown or starve due to their inability to move from the sea bed. Ironically, the fins themselves contain little nutritional value and Im told make a rather tasteless dish.
The result?? Sharks are being forced to the brink of extinction and millions of children worldwide starve, while people around the globe spend hundreds of dollars for a bowl of this wasteful food.
If you see shark fin soup on the menu in a restaurant you visit, scowl at the manager and ask for it to be removed. If they wont remove it, boycott the restaurant.
You can read more about shark conservation as well as other Marine conservation issues on the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) website at AMCS website
Were you aware that an estimated 100 million sharks are slaughtered each year??
Mostly this is due to the insane shark fin trade.
Shark fin soup is a delicacy in most Asian countries and served around the world in restaurants. This dish is so popular and shark fins fetch such a high price on the market that fisher folk maximise their hold space by slicing the fins from the live shark and throwing the animal back overboard.
Grey Nurse Shark - endangered species
The result?? Sharks are being forced to the brink of extinction and millions of children worldwide starve, while people around the globe spend hundreds of dollars for a bowl of this wasteful food.
If you see shark fin soup on the menu in a restaurant you visit, scowl at the manager and ask for it to be removed. If they wont remove it, boycott the restaurant.
You can read more about shark conservation as well as other Marine conservation issues on the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) website at AMCS website
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