Shark fin going to disappear faster than Thornton in the playoffs! Good for them. Finning is one of the worst practices of harvesting food in the world!
Although it's super tasty, it's all about the broth and shark fin doesn't even have a taste to it. It's like a bland gummy bear. I've had a $500 bowl of shark fin soup before and it tastes no different than a $5 fake shark fin soup from the Richmond night market.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...736/story.html
Shark fin soup is a pricey delicacy, and by October it will be an outlawed delicacy in Calgary.Council voted 13-2 to ban the possession of shark fins in the city, following the move of several North American jurisdictions to use legislation to denounce the gruesome way the fins are cut from live sharks.
Canada doesn’t ban the import of fins, though it’s illegal in Canadian waters to engage in “finning” — ripping the fins off living sharks and then tossing them back to die in the water.
Ald. Brian Pincott, who led the anti-finning charge, secured more than 20 letters of support from Chinese Calgarians. Among them were the head of the Sien Lok Society, and an owner of the Regency Palace restaurant that serves the fin soup but is phasing it out for younger generations and their wedding banquets.
It also won support from Ald. John Mar, council’s only Chinese member. He quipped that he and sharks have an agreement: “I don’t eat you and you don’t eat me.”