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Fight Over Shark Fin Soup

Fight Over Shark Fin Soup

Posted by: Anhoni Patel on Feb 15, 2011 | Comments (2)

Cultural delicacy or gross animal cruelty? Shark fin soup is an expensive Chinese delicacy served on special occasions, especially traditional wedding banquets, that can be sold for $85 – 100 a bowl. However, in order to get the fins from the sharks, most fisherman simply slice them off and then shove the sharks back into the ocean to slowly bleed to death, not even bothering to butcher the rest of the animal.