Mayor Ed Lee Eats Shark's Fin Soup

• Mayor Lee is the one who needs to be educated. There is no enlightened way to cut off a shark's fins. If the fishermen don't need the rest of the shark, they are going to continue to throw the live finless shark back into the water, where the shark will die a slow death. No one is going to be out there on the water monitoring their activity. If they do keep the shark, well, either way the shark ends up dead. So Mayor Lee feels okay about continuing to kill sharks so that he can have a bowl of soup because it's "cultural." So is stoning women for adultery in Afghanistan, does that make it okay? Mayor Lee, wake up, our stomachs are not the most important things in this world where ocean life is being depleted at a fast pace. You can be the person who acts on behalf of sharks and sets an example for the rest of the country, or you can focus on what you like to eat.

• Please tell me how an idiot like this can end up in such a great job ...After seeing an artical such as this im more than sure the world going to pot!

• Tigress - seriously, was that sarcasm or not? Personally, shark finning = very bad!

• Yes, it makes sense to keep finning sharks until there's none left in the world.

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