Shark Fin Soup Ban Is More Popular Than You Think

• Well said sir. I strongly agree.

• Where did you get your education about sharks and the ecosystem from???  If we deplete the sharks (or eat them, in your opinion) entirely then the ecosystems suffers and begins a downward spiral of an evil and an endless domino effect.  Sharks help produce around 70% of our Earth's oxygen, without them we would suffocate and die. It may be a Chinese culture to eat shark fin soup but there's a big difference between respecting a culture and respecting our ecosystems and the lives of the species that have survived for more than 400 million years - the sharks.  Whether your Chinese or Latina or whatever ethnicity you identify as, bottom line, you will not survive without the survival of sharks. 

• The advantages of eating shark fin soup. Sharks do not have many preditors and sharks are preditors themselves.Chinese is the only race demanding sharks the most which help achieve this balance. Eating them can reduce their numbers thus help ecosystems.Secondly, shark fin soup is a delicasy in Chinese traditions and in Chinese cultures during banquet and for health benefits. Taking this priviledge away is like taking away their human right. Can you ban American from eating beef?  Can you ban Indian from eating curry because some peole is allergic  to curry? If you think it is not humane to cut the fin off and abandon the meat, why not set up a law to fine fishermen if they don't keep the meat for sales by inspecting their follow through. Taking away someone's else right is not freedom. But rather selfish. Everyone should have the right to eat or not, but should repect all human races culture and traditions. God bless you !----

• How is it barbaric? Sharks are categorically fish. In other words, they don't have the neurological capacity for pain perception. The perception of pain is not a given for all species on earth. If people are against it for environmental reasons like protecting the ecosystem, then fine. The problem I have is that the framing of the debate in San Francisco is always centered around "evil barbaric cruelty" which isn't the case if the subject can't "feel" pain and is incapable of that psychological experience. But of course, the general conversation will conveniently ignore that bit or drown it out (no pun intended) .

• I don't care if it is an attack on Chinese culture. It's bad culture. We used to have bear baiting, too. We outlawed it because it was barbaric. Ban this and move along already.

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