Shark Fin Soup & Sharks getting their fins cut off for it.
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So as many of you know, sharks are killed every day for their fins as an ingredient to a soup called ''Shark Fin soup'', basically, they're hauled onto a boat and somebody cuts off all of their fins so they can't swim and will sink to the bottom of the ocean or die on their way there, as much as i dislike sharks (well, i think they're fascinating creatures, but i'm afraid of them), cutting off their fins and leaving them left for dead in the ocean is one of the most inhumane things i've ever witnessed.
Hundreds, if not thousands of sharks are killed only so people can eat overpriced soup, i know i'm not the only one when i say that is wrong and should be banned, it's probably one of the worse examples of animal cruelty in the world.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65FgUYdBOc[/media]
I suggest watching this video, even if it's a bit long, it'll give you a better view on how sick and disgusting cutting off shark fins is, Gordon Ramsay also claims in the video that the shark fin adds no flavor to the soup itself.
I don't really get why they do it, shark fins are disgusting.
I don't get it either, I don't agree with it, but then again it may be great to a different cloture.
[QUOTE=Glorbo;32827140]I don't really get why they do it, shark fins are disgusting.[/QUOTE]
Shark Fin Soup was always a food of nobility and class in China, so now as there is a growing middle class, people eat shark fin soup to present themselves as classy/rich/noble.
The shark fin has NO flavor in itself, nor nutritional value. The flavor is in the broth, which is then absorbed by the fin. Might as well save a shark and just eat the broth.
The practice sickens me. If it was one shark, and the whole body was used for different purposes... I wouldn't have an issue, but the barbaric methods of cutting a fish's fins off, let alone a species which is threatened with extinction, and then just tossing them in the water alive... This isn't fishing... This is animal cruelty, and slaughter.
[QUOTE=WebbyKing;32827492]Shark Fin Soup was always a food of nobility and class in China, so now as there is a growing middle class, people eat shark fin soup to present themselves as classy/rich/noble.
The shark fin has NO flavor in itself, nor nutritional value. The flavor is in the broth, which is then absorbed by the fin. Might as well save a shark and just eat the broth.[/QUOTE]
Only to present themselves as rich?
So thousands of sharks are killed each day because people want to present themselves as rich?
I'm sickened.
I am against it. It should be illegal to cut off part of an animal and then let it go.
Completely inhumane and should be banned.
I'm against it, cause I mean how fucking wasteful is that?
[quote]Shark Fin Soup was always a food of nobility and class in China, so now as there is a growing middle class, people eat shark fin soup to present themselves as classy/rich/noble.
The shark fin has NO flavor in itself, nor nutritional value. The flavor is in the broth, which is then absorbed by the fin. Might as well save a shark and just eat the broth.[/quote]
and also because it's pointless and only used to make rich dicks feel rich.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;32828385]I'm against it, cause I mean how fucking wasteful is that?
and also because it's pointless and only used to make rich dicks feel rich.[/QUOTE]
Like hats in TF2
I think it's only fair to blame the consumer, the fisherman/ restaurants seemed to be just making a living off high demand.
Inhumane animal cruelty based on some dodgy superstitions? Its not right.
[QUOTE=nono345;32829209]I think it's only fair to blame the consumer, the fisherman/ restaurants seemed to be just making a living off high demand.[/QUOTE]
The fishermen are still bad since they don't even kill the sharks before taking the fins off.
While I think it's pretty horrible, you also have to remember that these people come from a completely different culture.
What if someone came up to you and told you that we should ban the use of showers because of all the water that they waste?
Water is not a living thing.
[QUOTE=sgman91;32830099]While I think it's pretty horrible, you also have to remember that these people come from a completely different culture.
What if someone came up to you and told you that we should ban the use of showers because of all the water that they waste?[/QUOTE]
That's not even close to something that remotely resembles the slightest faint of a possibility of an analogy.
[QUOTE=sgman91;32830099]While I think it's pretty horrible, you also have to remember that these people come from a completely different culture.
What if someone came up to you and told you that we should ban the use of showers because of all the water that they waste?[/QUOTE]
They have no excuse.
If your culture is based on killing animals just to get one useless part of them, then your culture is fucked up after all.
Not only is it a terrible thing to do, but it's fucking wasteful. If you're going to kill a shark, at least use all of it's meat. Hell, instead of hunting down and murdering the poor things, try farming them instead, raise them in captivity like livestock. Not only would it help their numbers, but it'd make shark fin soup much less of a "tainted" dish, and by tainted I mean tainted by the cruel murder involved in harvesting the fins and wasting the rest.
If I were a food animal and I was being led to the slaughter, i'd be resting a little easier if I knew most of my meat wouldn't be wasted. That is, after a lot of thrashing and protest concerning my death to feed the people.
[QUOTE=ironman17;32831301]Not only is it a terrible thing to do, but it's fucking wasteful. If you're going to kill a shark, at least use all of it's meat.[/QUOTE]
This. I think it's dumb to kill an animal just to use a tiny part of it.
And I see no reason why they should chuck the shark back into the sea alive so it can die horribly, the very least they could do is kill it quickly themselves so it won't suffer like that. It is absolutely disgusting to kill a creature like that.
[QUOTE=ironman17;32831301]
If I were a food animal and I was being led to the slaughter, i'd be resting a little easier if I knew most of my meat wouldn't be wasted. That is, after a lot of thrashing and protest concerning my death to feed the people.[/QUOTE]If you were a food animal you would "Moo Moo". That's the amount of thought you would have.
If they want their shark fin soup so bad, they should raise sharks themselves for food.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with it so long as they raise the sharks themselves and don't waste 90% of the shark.
On the other hand I'm not terribly fond of the flagrant nannystate-ism that California and a lot of other places are guilty of.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that sharks have high mercury content in them so it's actually pretty bad for you to eat them.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;32833306]I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that sharks have high mercury content in them so it's actually pretty bad for you to eat them.[/QUOTE]
That's true of most large sea creatures. Whales, Sharks, Swordfish, they all have high mercury concentrations.
Off the top of my head: 33,000 sharks are killed every hour. 60,000,000-90,000,000 every year.
[url]http://www.shark.ch/Database/EndangeredSharks/index.html?lim=8&slang=2[/url]
Globally outlaw it. Enforce it with hefty hefty fines and prison.
As of right now, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington state have shark fins outlawed. It's a good trend but it needs more. Federally outlaw it in the US, outlawing it in China would cause a hefty blow.
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[QUOTE=sgman91;32830099]While I think it's pretty horrible, you also have to remember that these people come from a completely different culture.
What if someone came up to you and told you that we should ban the use of showers because of all the water that they waste?[/QUOTE]
Culture is not an excuse for animal cruelty. Never.
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[QUOTE=Kuro.;32832345]If they want their shark fin soup so bad, they should raise sharks themselves for food.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with it so long as they raise the sharks themselves and don't waste 90% of the shark.
On the other hand I'm not terribly fond of the flagrant nannystate-ism that California and a lot of other places are guilty of.[/QUOTE]
The cost it takes to keep a shark in a tank long enough to reach sexual maturity, breed, then give birth would not be worth it when you can just go on a boat and slaughter millions of them a year. This is also why they are doomed for extinction. They can't keep up. Shark populations have gone down 90% in the past century or so.
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[QUOTE=squids_eye;32833306]I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that sharks have high mercury content in them so it's actually pretty bad for you to eat them.[/QUOTE]
It's said to be an aphrodisiac but the mercury content is high enough to make you sterile if you eat it too often. And it is not recommended for children or women that are/might be pregnant.
Fuck, 1000 signs in 4 days.
[url]https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/ban-sale-trade-and-possession-shark-and-shark-products-including-shark-fin/dBmF5cHP[/url]
shark fin soup is damn good, but I agree that it's gone too far. Artificial tastes just as good, and it's far more sustainable.
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65FgUYdBOc[/media]
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So in Chinese culture, texture is valued as much as taste. But according to Gordon Ramsay, the texture of shark fin, which is tasteless, is like glass noodles.
Then why not just have glass noodles with this delicious broth, instead of shark fin? It doesn't make sense.
[QUOTE=Kuro.;32832345]If they want their shark fin soup so bad, they should raise sharks themselves for food.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with it so long as they raise the sharks themselves and don't waste 90% of the shark.
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Nothing wrong with cutting their fins off while they're alive and then throwing them back into the sea alive so they can drown rather than quickly killing them?
Also I think it's wrong of them to kill so many sharks that the population of them is thinning out.
In the youtube comments of that video somebody also claims that a chain supermarket called Cold Storage in Singapore stopped selling Shark Fins.
I think there's nothing wrong with it, Its their culture that they eat shark fin, Its our culture we eat cows, But we don't stop because Indians tell us to.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;32841769]I think there's nothing wrong with it, Its their culture that they eat shark fin, Its our culture we eat cows, But we don't stop because Indians tell us to.[/QUOTE]
You're ignoring the main fact:
It's pointless waste of the sharks and their meat, and sharks might be nearing extinction at this rate.
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