At least gold is rare and diamonds are hard.
This is like putting a price on the tears of children, and when they're done crying you toss them into a furnace.
Sharks must be respected or else they will rise up against us
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/sharkhostage2.jpg[/img]
Watch out for those land sharks!
[QUOTE=ken188;32450229]Shark fin soup is tasty, you white people don't know what you're missing.[/QUOTE]
ahahahaha
good job destroying an assload of endangered sharks.
[QUOTE=Flubadoo;32452985]ahahahaha
good job destroying an assload of endangered sharks.[/QUOTE]
at least we have the good sense to farm our goddamn cows
you know, so there's a steady supply
and you don't have to pay fucking 80 dollars for a burger
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;32452994]at least we have the good sense to farm our goddamn cows
you know, so there's a steady supply
and you don't have to pay fucking 80 dollars for a burger[/QUOTE]
Shark farms. That is the best fucking idea ever. But shark farms not for eating, we have to sell them as pets and as weapons to supervillains.
It is genius.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;32451691]Japanese place nearby has shark fin soup with imitation shark fin. No idea how it tastes though.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't be surprised if it's kinda like Surimi based products
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surimi[/url]
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;32450658]I am not surprised. After being cooked for so long, it can't really keep any real taste, the proteins are all broken down and denaturated.[/QUOTE]
That's not how cooking works.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;32450658]I am not surprised. After being cooked for so long, it can't really keep any real taste, the proteins are all broken down and denaturated.
This is a digusting show of human vanity giving price to something that never really had it on it's own, at expense of some endangered sea species.[/QUOTE]
Implying things cooked for a long time can't have any taste.
Implying denatured protein don't have any taste.
Implying cooked meat isn't denatured protein.
Implying giving something value is vain.
Implying there is intrinsic value in anything.
ISHYGDDT
It's OK to protest when China does it but when some finnish activists made a stunt against Mc Donalds and their meat supply, Fox news literally said "These people think they can tell us what to eat while they're eating Rudolph the rednosed reindeer" or something very much along those lines.
[QUOTE=Falchion;32453208]It's OK to protest when China does it but when some finnish activists made a stunt against Mc Donalds and their meat supply, Fox news literally said "These people think they can tell us what to eat while they're eating Rudolph the rednosed reindeer" or something very much along those lines.[/QUOTE]
1. Fox news.
2. Cows are not wild animals.
[QUOTE=The Castro;32450580]I was in San Francisco for a while, I saw that ad with Yao Ming saying no to Shark fin soup on the side of a bus. Me and my family shortly went into a Chinese restaurant,and this place was pretty damn legit, and I look on the menu, and I see Shark Fin soup available. I didn't buy it, [B]I instead got salted fish and fried rice, and the fish had an extreme amount of salt on it, it was impossible to eat.[/B]
So I sat there and drank piping hot tea.[/QUOTE]
Are you fucking dense or what? The fish is preserved in salt, so of course it's going to be really damn salty. That's why you're supposed to eat it flake by flake with a lot of rice to cut back on the harshness. You don't just wolf it down like some grilled fillet or something of that sort.
But I love shark fin!
[QUOTE=angelangel;32453248]1. Fox news.
2. Cows are not wild animals.[/QUOTE]
So only wild animals deserve rights while cows, pigs, etc. can be treated however the meat producers want.
Shark fin has no taste and has a nutritional value of zero, it's useless and it's just a way for rich people to gloat about being rich.
[QUOTE=ken188;32453081]Implying things cooked for a long time can't have any taste.
Implying denatured protein don't have any taste.
[/QUOTE]
The longer you cook something, the more of the [I]original[/I] taste is lost.
Denaturated protein has taste of denaturated protein, but when you cook them for long enough, they all break down to the basically same thing. The point is what the cook guy says. You could put chicken into it, or anything else, and it would be the same thing.
[quote]Implying cooked meat isn't denatured protein.[/quote]
Where?
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I am saying that any possible (and actually never existant) exclusivity of taste is lost due to the complete breakdown from lengthy cooking, so everything left is just value assigned to the meat due to the status of rarity.
It's something like [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit]Artist's shit[/url] except species are driven near exstinction because of this.
[QUOTE=Falchion;32453797]So only wild animals deserve rights while cows, pigs, etc. can be treated however the meat producers want.[/QUOTE]
If the cow was about to go extinct I'm fairly certain there would be a reaction similar to this. I understand you're playing devil's advocate but it's just making you look like an enabler for destroying a species
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Besides I don't think it's really up for debate that McDonalds isn't a completely reprehensible company anyway
I thought about trying some shark fin soup..
I always liked General Tso's better anyway.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;32451348]that thing is so [I]fucking[/I] disgusting.[/QUOTE]
I owe you a kick to the face.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;32454246]Shark fin has no taste and has a nutritional value of zero, it's useless and it's just a way for rich people to gloat about being rich.[/QUOTE]
"The Hong Kong Standard reported in October that samples of shark fin bought from Hong Kong wholesalers and tested in the US were found to contain up to 5.84 ppm of mercury (maximum permitted levels in Hong Kong are only 0.5 ppm). This is not surprising: as top predators, sharks readily acculmulate heavy metals through the marine food chain."
The FDA says pregnant people, or people that might become pregnant, and children shouldn't eat it. That should tell you how healthy it is. You're risking your health for a piece of gelatinous meat that could be substituted with pretty much anything.
Shark fin is a useless product. It only allows for the bourgeoisie to flaunt wealth on something impractical.
They should eat beef instead, at least that is more sensible.
Caviar is stupid too.
[QUOTE=OvB;32449918]The fin adds no flavor at all. Just eat it without the fin.[/QUOTE]
And the great thing now is that nearly every sharkfin here is made of imitation sharkfin. Its made of flour or something, and I literally couldn't taste the difference. But I can never know whether its real or fake sharkfin.
:(
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;32457931]
Caviar is stupid too.[/QUOTE]
Caviar is a whole other problem in itself, causing possible extinction too.
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[QUOTE=shian;32457950]And the great thing now is that nearly every sharkfin here is made of imitation sharkfin. Its made of flour or something, and I literally couldn't taste the difference. But I can never know whether its real or fake sharkfin.
:([/QUOTE]
How much does it cost? Usually shark fin is really expensive.
[QUOTE=Falchion;32453797]So only wild animals deserve rights while cows, pigs, etc. can be treated however the meat producers want.[/QUOTE]
They cut off the sharks fins and toss it back into the water to die.
They cut a cow's throat and let it bleed out, then they get the meat.
Shark fin soup and tiger wine. This is why China is still a backwards developing nation.
[QUOTE=OvB;32457964]Caviar is a whole other problem in itself, causing possible extinction too.
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How much does it cost? Usually shark fin is really expensive.[/QUOTE]
With all the shitloads of sharkfin, no one knows whether its real or fake. We had nightmarket and stalls selling them for 5 bucks, and the broth is fucking delicious.
Family sizes cost bout 30-50 bucks.
The expensive ones are in seafood restaurants. And even then, it uses fake sharkfin.
So its all good down here.
[QUOTE=SoaringScout;32458023]They cut off the sharks fins and toss it back into the water to die.
They cut a cow's throat and let it bleed out, then they get the meat.[/QUOTE]
Cows are often stunned before they are slaughtered with a captive bolt pistol to the brain. If done correctly the cow never feels pain. We breed and farm cows so we know we will never run out, so we can slaughter as many as we please.
Sharks are often fished on a 60-90 mile long line fishing boat. A single line can have [i]thousands[/i] of hooks and catches fish indiscriminately including endangered sea turtles, seals, and sometimes even birds. The line is left there for hours while the hooks get loaded with whatever decides to bite it. Often times the animals die of exhaustion from having to swim in tight circles to keep water flowing over their gills (for sharks) or just from the struggle. The sharks and by-catch are then brought onto the ship, often pulled up with a pick axe or something similar, their fins are cut off while the animal is still alive, then they are tossed back into the ocean to drown or get eaten by other animals, while still alive. Longlining in itself, should be banned because of its incredible by-catch.
Not only that but, we don't even know the population status of many shark species, and many that we do know are either endangered or threatened. Approximately 11,000 sharks are killed every hour, regardless of species. I've heard annual numbers go anywhere from 60-90+ [i]million[/i] a year. We don't even know. Most are unregulated, and only the fin is taken.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;32454246]Shark fin has no taste and has a nutritional value of zero, it's useless and it's just a way for rich people to gloat about being rich.[/QUOTE]
Ancient Chinese Tradition.
Its like bird nest. But I think there's some use.
[QUOTE=shian;32458207]Ancient Chinese Tradition.
Its like bird nest. But I think there's some use.[/QUOTE]
It's also considered a delicacy
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