Shark fin soup — environmental crime or birthright?
date:Nov 07, 2012
gly insatiable demand for shark fins, which in many cases are lopped off the animals at sea while the rest of the body about 95 percent of its total weight is tossed overboard, a process known as finning. Each year, an estimated 73 million of the fish, known as an apex predator for its crucial role in the ocean ecosystem, are rendered helpless and left to die.

The soup, which has been part of special celebrations in China dating back several hundred years to the Ming Dynasty yet can be rather
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