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Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ
When I first heard about city council doing something about this I was thinking "what the heck! Isn't there more pressing issues in Calgary!?!"
...then I got to the 5:00 minute mark of the video posted by Lobotroth.
Jesus...they could at least use the ENTIRE shark, rather than throwing it back in the ocean. The fact that they don't, makes me sick. Waste of meat and food...and the shark suffers. |
This. There needs to be more awareness of this problem. The soup has no nutritional value, and is eaten as a status symbol. For anyone who hasn't watched Gordon Ramsay's documentary, it's very interesting.
My new home country of Costa Rica is a major culprit in this problem. There are groups lobbying the government to make changes, and they have made small ones. It's no longer legal to bring only fins to dock, but now they just cut the fins at dock and discard the rest of the shark. The situation here has a mafia feel to it, and I'm sure there are government officials who are being bribed to keep quiet about it.