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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:59 am Post subject: The Shark Fin Trade |
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Every year, 73 million sharks are killed for their fins. Most go to make shark fin soup, a luxury dish and status symbol in some Asian cultures that can sell for $100 a bowl.
In recent years, graphic undercover footage of the shark finning trade has helped raise public awareness of the issue. Photos and videos usually show grim images of fishermen hauling sharks up the sides of boats, slicing off the animals' fins, then letting them slide back into the ocean � and certain death. Photographer Shawn Heinrichs and partner Paul Hilton take a different approach. |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:03 am Post subject: |
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I had the soup at Bangkok's Chinatown.
Tasteless goo.
Didn't give me any stamina that I was aware of either.
Give me a Lotteria big beef set over that any day. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| It seems horrible to cut a shark's fin off and then toss the shark into the sea. It would be one thing if they eat most of the shark. No one should eat the stuff, I think. I support this. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| It seems horrible to cut a shark's fin off and then toss the shark into the sea. It would be one thing if they eat most of the shark. No one should eat the stuff, I think. I support this. |
Me too. I sometimes wonder if the Chinese won't be satisfied until they have killed every last living thing on earth. I noticed a growth in the sale of ivory in Africa also, to guess who? |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:37 am Post subject: |
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The weird thing is shark meat is delicious and is eaten in Asia. Why not sell the whole shark instead of throwing the rest of it back in the sea?
That's the bit that really baffles me. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:58 am Post subject: |
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It's more cost effective to load your boat up with pricey fins.
Time and effort to process the whole shark just isn't worth it in their eyes. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:43 am Post subject: |
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| This is even worse than the seal hunt. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I might be less offended by if it it tasted like anything. As is, shark fin is used as a thickener, which doesn't make the soup thick enough, so they have to add starch to thicken it anyway. Yes, World Traveler is right, it's essentially tasteless goo. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree with everything that has been said. Shark fin is tasteless. It is wasteful. And Chinese consumers who pay top dollar for it are extravagent idiots in the way that Western caviar eaters are. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| I agree with everything that has been said. Shark fin is tasteless. It is wasteful. And Chinese consumers who pay top dollar for it are extravagent idiots in the way that Western caviar eaters are. |
But caviar is tasty...  |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Wouldn't the discarded shark carcass be food for all the other life in the ocean? |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| I agree with everything that has been said. Shark fin is tasteless. It is wasteful. And Chinese consumers who pay top dollar for it are extravagent idiots in the way that Western caviar eaters are. |
But caviar is tasty... |
This. The sturgeon situation is bad enough that even if I could afford caviar, I probably wouldn't eat it at this point (in the same way I avoid swordfish and blue fin), but caviar is certifiably awesome. |
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