I don't mind the fact that they want shark fins, it's the fact how they treat the animal afterwards.
I've had shark fin soup while I was in China and it's not bad, but yeah, just a shame about the methods.
I don't mind the fact that they want shark fins, it's the fact how they treat the animal afterwards.
I've had shark fin soup while I was in China and it's not bad, but yeah, just a shame about the methods.
Completely disagree with what their doing, but at the same time I won't lie, if a bowl was put in front of me to try, I would try it, its not like by not eating it, that shark is suddenly restored,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mals_of_Europe Not even going to go into the extinctions caused by Europeans in N, S America and Australia.
Maybe you should worry about your Continent more and stop interfering in everyone else's cultures.
I'm not against eating shark because its shark, I'm against it because it's inhumanely done. The same way I don't eat meat and produce from animals kept in abysmal conditions here in the UK.
This would not disturb me so much if they used the whole animal for food, but from what rich stated about just using the fins and throwing the animal back, That is nothing short of cruelty. I know its a different culture but really have they no respect for animal life ?
Every animal can be eatable depending on a specific culture but every culture should demand the avoidance of animal suffering, only the sadist are supporting these things and more or less you are a sadist if you don't care about getting a living being tortured.
Kill them and take their fins what's the point of releasing them to have an agonizing and painful death?
It's disgusting. I saw a show on teli with Gordon Ramsay when he got to see how shark fins are taken, and he was distraught.
Many asian countries suffer from superstitious nonsense that think X part of Y animal cures cancer and shit like that. If they had a higher amount of educated people, things would change. And if they had less poor people, there would be less incentive for the poor to hunt rare animals.
Many animals may soon be extinct because of being hunted for "nature medicine".
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That list contains animals that haven't excisted in the last 10 000 freaking years. There were barely any Homo Sapiens in Europe when half of those animals lived. If you're gonna blame that on the people that live nowadays, you are pretty damned shortsighted. Those animals that aren't ancient on the list are animals that may have been hunted a few hundred years ago.
Try harder mate. Stop trying to put blame on modern society for animals that haven't excisted for hundreds of years, even thousands of years.
Because nowadays, we are doing something about it. They aren't. It's western organisations fighting to protect endangered species.
This is pretty fucked up, I can't believe they toss them back to drown.
Hi Sephurik
+1 on this.
I don't see the difference between this and raising pigs for 2 years in a cage so small that by the time the pig is grown it can break it's ribs 'cause there is no room for the pig there and then taking conveyor belt clamps and clamping their legs so they are hanging upside down about 3 feet from each other while they are going to a stationery chainsaw that cuts their head. ( For the COWS it's more disgusting )
So don't be so hypocritical about this.
http://www.piaberrend.org/slaughterh...pposed-to-see/
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Oh my goodness...
As a person who cares about the world and animals, I find that just terrible. I know that it's only natural to hunt for food, but ripping off a small piece of the prey to eat and letting it die a slow and agonizing death? I don't understand.
EDIT: I don't agree with the mass slaughter of pigs and cows either, Lucian255.
People breed sharks for slaughter? news to me.
Personally, I've tried shark fin soup. My wealthy friend ordered it and pressured me to eat it. It tasted average, nothing so special. I'm disgusted with Asian cultures. It's their superstitious bullshit history/ideals that make them eat all sorts of garbage. They have isles chalk full of magical healing X in my local supermarket.
I would rather eat a snails than this.....
Don't sweat the details!!!
I see, that makes it much better. Oh wait.
Atleast the shark's suffering ends soon enough. While the livestock gets to live a full life in captivity only to get slaughtered later on. Atleast the shark was free.
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This guy gets it. You can keep believing the fairytale that livestock is treated nicely all you want, but the truth is that they have it far worse than those sharks that die soon after being caught.
You also have no qualms about mass fishing of other fish? You know the kind where they gather thousands of fish in a net, pull them up to let them suffocate in the net?
I like to fish in the ocean, a river, a lake, wherever. I don't understand people who complain about certain species being killed JUST FOR THE SIMPLE FACT that it was brought up on T.V.
No problem with millions of billions of chickens living in a cage their whole life then being slaughtered. BUT because the shark, whale, seal, polar bear, etc is cute WE NEED TO SAVE IT NOW!
Give me a break.
To be fair, the guy you're quoting has a point. The things we do to pigs and cows in factory farms are just as bad, if not worse, than what east Asian countries do to sharks for their fins. It's just not that well-publicized here.
Educate yourself - we commit atrocities upon our livestock here in the US every day, on a much bigger scale than what the Asiatic countries do to sharks.
I might have eaten some before. If I had it wasn't nice enough to remember.
My only issue with shark fin is the possibility of sharks going extinct and the unbalancing of the food chain which will end up fucking us over in the long run.
welcome to Asia food culture but don't worry they will soon kill all the remaining shark and move on the next fish or land animal to exterminate atleast us in north america and most part of Europe we learn not to do that