Since our last post on the topic, California successfully banned shark fin soup, and that has seemingly been an impetus for a widening of the protest against this cruel and foolish dish. This week Yao Ming and Richard Branson, the most unlikely Superhero team ever, joined forces to speak out against the dish in Shanghai. Here in Vancouver, or as hipster losers prefer to call it Vancity or V-Town (gawd that drives me crazy, way to sound like an expat Calgarian three weeks out of your moms basement just off the Bow Trail,) there’s a local event you should consider supporting. The Sans Fins Soup Contest goes on October 13 at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel. It will be a competition where chefs will be creating fin-free shark fin soup. The winner gets an amnesty from being gobbled next time they snorkel in Mexico. The sharks have given their solemn word, and who can you trust if you can’t trust a shark.
Even mainstream tech bloggers are getting in on the act.
Refuse to eat this reprehensible dish.
~KT
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There is no use for banning the dishes, the fisher will just sell the shark fin to those countries who still allow the dish. As Chinese, I am fully aware of the way fisher treated those sharks, it is becoming more common knowledge to have other soup as substitute.
What I am trying to say it get shark fin fishing all ban around the world and set the penalty so high that no fishermen will risk their neck for it. With this, it will be the best solution for a better good.
Or Educate the people eating the Shark Fin soup as Gordon Ramsey shows it doesnt add any flavour, just texture, it all comes down to the broth. And buying a dish just because its a family tradition because its rare? I dunno comes down to Education to me
^ Totally agree. Just banning it won’t make it go away, just like prohibition didn’t get rid of alcohol.
Shame it, expose it for the overpriced brutal sham that it is. Gordon Ramsay’s video pretty much did it for me; I won’t go near the stuff with a ten foot pole.
Nothing will stop shark fin dining faster than have it seen as uncouth and unfashionable. The ban will help drive that point home. It’s a delicate balance – trying to belittle and embarass won’t work. But grassroots event’s such as Sans Fin Soup Contest will help close the loop with local diners.