A friend sent me a link to the Canberra Restaurants named as selling shark fin soup with this note:
Hokay, I don’t normally post these sorts of things, but shark fin soup is whack and this website provides a list of restaurants in Canberra (and all of Australia) that actually sell it. Sharks are amazing animals, critical to aquatic ecosystem functioning and, as a SCUBA diver, I need all the good shark karma I can get. Rather than just not eating at these restaurants, I recommend if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and tell them WHY you’re not eating there!
The restaurants are: Happys Chinese Restaurant (Civic), King Fook Restaurant (Florey), Noble Palace Chinese Restaurant (Phillip), Prince Palace Chinese Restaurant (Emu Bank), Ruby Chinese Restaurant (Dickson).
While I’m not a fan of killing sharks just for their fins I’m not convinced eating fins is ethically that different to eating any other part of a fish. What do you think?
Sleaz274 said :
The question was: While I’m not a fan of killing sharks just for their fins I’m not convinced eating fins is ethically that different to eating any other part of a fish. What do you think?
Now, before I go through your response, tell me exactly how those links “End the argument”?
I.e. Did you think before you posted, or do you let narcissistic ‘doco’ makers do your thinking for you? Did you look into the legal/regulatory circumstances in Australia (therefore Canberra restaurants) for consuming shark fin?
Sleaz274 said :
Actually, I’ve just started watching your suggested link, and I have immediate problems with the opening credits:
“THEY ARE THE WORLD’S TOP PREDATOR”
Are they? How often does a shark bring down a buffalo? Not very often at all!
So this “doco” of yours isn’t a doco at all. It’s some sort of shark-love-in crap.
“BUT THEY ARE NOT OUR ENEMY”
Bollocks.
If you want to see some really sick sh1t, google “shark bite” and click on images. It’s worse than what the Israelis get up to.
“THEY”RE ARE GREATEST HOPE”
Wha??? Are they going to terraform Mars and help us move there? Or something?
You animal lovers are freaks.
I’ve got no problem with eating shark fins provided we eat the rest of the shark too, rather than simply injuring or killing the creature for no other reason.
Diggety said :
Pray, do tell enlightened one I’m so interested in how irrelevant your comment is. NO really I”m entirely serious please regale us with an expose on how irrelevant a documentary on the subject, which obviously you haven’t watched, read about or tried to research further is completely irrelevant.
I will admit it is irrelevant to teh penis measuring contest going on above but that was hardly close to on topic anyway.
Sleaz274 said :
Thanks Michael Moore, but it is irrelevant to the discussion.
HenryBG said :
+1
Honestly, what sort of self-absored f%^head turns up in a thread about a serious issue with the sole point of saying ‘I don’t really care about this’ … and then continues arguing about it when it’s pointed out that they’re being a f&*ing idiot?
How about a big steaming cup of shut the f*(k up!!!
http://www.sharkwater.com/
End of argument meta or otherwise. Piss off and watch it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkwater
topdocumentaryfilms.com/sharkwater/
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2229519.htm
http://www.facebook.com/SharkWater
I can’t help you much more than that. Come back with your rants afterwards having been at least a little bit informed.
Mysteryman said :
I think this is sort of a “meta-argument”, in that you aren’t participating in this argument, but rather, you are arguing about the argument of the argument.
It’s all a bit pointless.
Jim Jones said :
You daily post comments that demonstrate serious problems with reading comprehension. It’s clearly something you need to work on. It’s either that, or you just can’t help but post self-serving tripe despite the fact that it doesn’t relate to the topic at hand, or the comments you respond to.
I’m sorry you can’t seem to understand that I’m ok with taking 60 seconds to make myself understood, and that I don’t care to support every cause presented to me, or that I just may find some causes to be more worthy of my time and effort than others. I doubt you’ve done anything to support the cause of shark preservation… and no, posting snarky comments on RA doesn’t count.
EvanJames said :
No, that is what you think happens.
Die Lefty Scum said :
Yes… those ferocious rhinos eating all those people…
Ian said :
All washed down with a whalebone goblet of baby seal tears.
Shark fin soup is delicious. Perfect to go with grilled dolphin steaks.
urchin said :
Why is it bad?
I agreed with you when you said it’s silly to squander Green credibility and then you go and do it yourself.
Cruelty is bad, not eating shark fin soup.
Ban cruelty – great idea.
In fact – it already is! Problem solved.
HenryBG said :
HenryBG .. Best retort I’ve seen for a while
isn’t that was this post is doing?
EvanJames said :
“you have to start somewhere” is not the same as “you have to start anywhere”. all you will do is succeed in alienating more people and burning through the little political capital that the greens retain. i think people tend to get sick of hearing how the gov’t is going to ban this and ban that and ban everything else. especially when the ban won’t have any real effect and, in any case, will be unenforced/unenforceable.
i’m not saying the cause is bad, but why is the first response for many environmental types always “ban it!” without considering the (in)significance of the ban and the effectiveness of other, less shrill, less confrontational measures? surely convincing people that eating shark fins is bad will be better and more effective than telling them that they can’t eat them…
Should be banned. ! Period!
willo said :
Thought that spray was worth saying twice heh?
urchin said :
You have to start somewhere. When I’m trying to get-at the free range egg display at Coles in Queanbeyan, which has numbers of peopel clustering around it, checking their eggs before they take them, I’m reminded of how people couldn’t see the point in that, either. Now we are seeing a logical move to banning cage egg production altogether, with large numbers of shoppers opting to pay more and get cruelty-free eggs.