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Shark Fin Soup Kills

Jaron
The whale sharks off the coast of Mozambique aren't dangerous to humans, but humans are proving more and more dangerous to whale sharks. The whale shark is coveted for its large dorsal fin which is often sold to Asian markets as a way to advertise the sale of shark fin soup.
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  • dinoabbruzzese
  • Wessagusset_Oracle
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      Wessagusset_Oracle  

    • there's a new product out, it's called asian leg soup, you just cut right at the knee, where the cartilage is, the person has to be alive, and you make soup of it, and you let the volunteer "hop" away, no worries.

      on a side note, if there is a god or gods, it/he/she/they, would NOT let this happen. the only hope is that superior, smarter, and more balanced creatures land on this planet, and wipe out most of us humans, especially the bad folks, because they'll have time travel/mind reading technology, and can tell what you've done bad. and they would keep the population at a sustainable level. that would be fair.

    • 3 years ago
  • leahl
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      leahl  
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    • Senator John F. Kerry's office announced today that he’s joining forces with the Discovery Channel to help end the illegal practice of shark finning.

      Throughout the channel's 22nd annual "Shark Week" of programming, it will run public service announcements and push an online petition to support a bill Kerry introduced in April that would close a loophole for shark fin transport and strengthen enforcement to ensure sharks are transported with their fins attached.

      In shark finning, fisherman slice off a shark’s fin primarily for use in shark fin soup. But critics say the practice has led to a seventy-five percent decrease in certain shark populations over the last fifteen years.

      “Huge demands on the foreign fin trade have fueled massive population declines and a serious disruption of our waters,” Kerry said in a statement. “We need much stronger solutions to finally end this illicit trade, and current protections haven’t gotten the job done. We need to get serious, and I’m thrilled to see Discovery Channel’s willingness to roll up its sleeves and help get the job done.”

    • 3 years ago
  • theauthor
  • onechance
  • Jaron
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      Jaron  

    • Thanks all for your responses. I too was able to see "Sharkwater" since returning from Mozambique, which confirmed my suspicion that shark-finning is a global problem. I spent many days camping out in various locations in Mozambique to try and get first hand footage of a shark-finning vessel, but unfortunately my budget didn't allow me to scan the entire coast and bust these guys in action. Anyone with interest in how shark finning affects much more than just sharks, but the entire global ecosystem, should see this film. It's truly an eye opener and has some of the most beautifully shot underwater footage i've ever seen.

    • 4 years ago
  • kat719
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    • Thanks for the post. I was fortunate enough to see this documentary a few years ago at the Toronto Film Festival and was able to make/keep contact with the director. It addresses such issues such as the hunting of sharks for their fins and its affects to society. Overall it debunks the myth that sharks are Jaws-like monsters. You should really check it out.

    • 4 years ago
  • BFAM_RVS
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      BFAM_RVS  

    • We as people can live and survive and be perfectly healthy and not eat shit like shark fins and other animals...I am proof of that...

      BFAM_RVS

    • 4 years ago
  • benjaminV
  • nyingma13
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      nyingma13  

    • Once again an animal is brought to the brink of extinction for the sake of someone's status. As an aside, why is it that China, which has given the world so many remarkable technological advances throughout history, still have so much of its "medicine" based on superstition? Brown bears are being poached in the national forests of the U.S. so that their gall baldders can be harvested and shipped to China to satisfy the demand for bile, as the bears indigenous to China have been virtually wiped out in supplying this most questionable of elixirs. The list goes on and on, with no end in sight, as the folk medicine and status foods of China place a strain on animal populations the world over.

    • 4 years ago
  • joefac3
  • fiat_lux088
  • spliffsan
  • cmruready
  • ifthatsalright
  • dani_boi
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    • cmruready:

      no. I'm an animal lover and that wouldn't satisfy me. that's just harvesting meat. it's like making sharks into meat machines the way humans have done with cows, chickens, pigs and most other factory farmed animals.

      people simply need to stop being selfish and realize that we're not the only ones on the planet. I'm sure over consumption of the sharks will result in many ecological problems and we already have enough of those with this huge global warming scare going on. I'm also sure mass producing shark meat will cause pollution of some kind too.

      let's just leave the sharks alone. we've got enough animals dying to meet our meat demands any way.

    • 4 years ago
  • sustainablejohn
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