From the article: Unusual Chinese Food
If you've ever attended a Chinese banquet, chances are you've tried this prized delicacy consisting of gelatinous strands of shark's fin in a gourmet stock. However, Shark's Fin Soup has taken a lot of heat from the public and conservation groups in recent years, particularly since the release of the film Sharkwater. Some restaurants no longer serve it, and it's harder to find in Chinese cookbooks. Still, Shark’s Fin Soup remains very popular in China and among some Asian communities, due to its cultural significance and perceived health benefits. What do you think? Would you order a bowl of Shark's Fin Soup? Share Your Thoughts
No
- No I wouldn't eat, nor would I buy or use in any form, anything that is harvested in such manner. Cutting parts of living creatures and then thrown back to die excruciating death. Also after the sharks have gone the oceans will turn very sick. It is presumable the jellyfish will in many places replace much of the fish stock.
- —Guest jk
Nature
- In nature, nothing goes to waste. To hunt sharks merely for their fins is a horrible waste and utter disrespect of nature. I think the Chinese health will be just fine without Shark Fin Soup. I saw the fishermen hunt the shark, they merely cut off the fins and simple throw the live shark into the water with no fins!! Of course they die a miserable death. That in of itself is inhumane. Their should not be an issue on whether it's good or bad.
- —Guest Inquizative
Poor sharks...
- I have never tried the soup or indeed shark itself. However, I would not want to have it. Cutting away a shark's fin and throwing it back to the sea is about as cruel as we can get. There is a FAKE shark fin soup, though. No sharks are harmed in making this.
- —Guest Sliver Lily
Poor sharks...
- I have never tried the soup or indeed shark itself. However, I would not want to have it. Cutting away a shark's fin and throwing it back to the sea is about as cruel as we can get. There is a FAKE shark fin soup, though. No sharks are harmed in making this.
- —Guest Sliver Lily
sharks
- no, i would not eat sharks, nor should anyone else.their function is to keep the oceans clean. they eat sick fish and mammals.
- —Guest john woods
no
- no because it is extremely unsustainable and it will destroy the shark population
- —Guest person
No
- I wouldn't eat it because it is harmful and cruel to sharks all over and in some time they will be extinct! No affense to the shark fin soup cultral but this is the worst! They completly waste the shark and only use the fins without any empathy for them hoe rude and horrible!!
- —Guest Answers await
No
- I wouldn't eat it because it is harmful and cruel to sharks all over and in some time they will be extinct! No affense to the shark fin soup cultral but this is the worst! They completly waste the shark and only use the fins without any empathy for them hoe rude and horrible!!
- —Guest Answers await
No
- I wouldn't eat it because it is harmful and cruel to sharks all over and in some time they will be extinct! No affense to the shark fin soup cultral but this is the worst! They completly waste the shark and only use the fins without any empathy for them hoe rude and horrible!!
- —Guest Answers await
sharks
- killing sharks for their fins is like killing elephants for thir tusks. sharks are reall the garbarge men of the ocean.they eat those fish that are weak and will die and keep the ocean clean. the amount of people attacks are very small. you are likely to get killed by an elephant poacher.
- —Guest john woods
ajohnhay
- It's a pity this question is still being asked. In 2004, Jackie Chan had a powerful message on China Television, beseeching people to stop eating shark's fin soup. His images were exactly like those I remember from the fish market in Tamsui (Taiwan) in 1970, dozens of bloodied shark carcases pied up, waiting to be wasted. The question should be in the same category as rhino horn for medicine.
- —ajohnhay
learning
- Suppose the entire shark is harvested-what do we do with the fins>
- —Guest db
meaning no malice .
- I have been a chef many years and had made shark(not just the fins)in place of saward fish which its tecture and taste is very much the same---and very much less expencive. I didn't mean to infer that it's proper to kill the shark and (only) use the fins and wast the rest of the fish.Shark steak made right are just as good as a prim beef.
- —Guest Chef Victor
Never!
- I'm a PADI Scuba Instructor here in Finland and this is most stupid thing that I ever heard.I like seafood, but I respect aquatic life.
- —Guest Jari Hellman
Shark's Fin Soup
- Yes I would. Just love the soup, not had it for many years
- —keeengl
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