WildAid PSA - Yao Ming: Shark Fin Soup

WildAid public service announcement starring NBA athlete Yao Ming (姚明) addressing shark fin soup.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• wildaid
• yao ming
• shark
• shark fin soup
• 姚明
• ocean
• fish
• fishing
• wildlife
• finning

[Bors00k47]

YAO MING: Y U NO LAUGH

[NonSoCheCosaScrivere]

:yaomingew:

[Jonmad17]

@weitaoting Again, shark fishing in more inherently cruel given the fact that they aren't killed instantly, but flayed alive to preserve the taste. There's also the fact that sharks are an endangered species, and that shark fishing kills thousands of other forms of aquatic life. Farming might be cruel in some ways, but it doesn't have those problems.

[weitaoting]

@Jonmad17 Well, using part or whole of the animals doesn't make it more ethical than the other because killing is wrong. It's like blaming the shark fishers for "wasting the shark meat" because we don't eat the whole of the shark. If we eat the whole pig and cows, it is the same inherent mistake. Tell me a good reason why we should just stop eating shark fins, instead of turning into a full vegetarian.

[Jonmad17]

@weitaoting It's how shark-fin soup is fished that makes it so reprehensible. Fishers kill them to get at a TINY amount of meat, and often just cut off the fins and throw them back into the ocean alive. It's not like a pig or a cow where we kill them instantly and use the entire for food.

[weitaoting]

@Ikus13 I don't see how breeding sharks just to eat them is any more ethical than eating them for the wild. Do you know the ecological costs we caused just to breed cows and pigs in the world? That caused more damage to the ecology so much more than sharks going extinct. It's just the human selfish ego to want to preserve animals so they don't go extinct. A shark's death is no different from a cow's death, they suffer the same thing, just as you will suffer when you become someone's food.

[weitaoting]

If we can see how every other kind of meat is prepared for us, we will all be vegetarians. Why just sharks.

[TheOtherLioyd]

@Pokemonandblackberry PROTIP: If enough of it is made that it's accessible to middle-class -- maybe it might be time to start doubting its status of "delicacy."

Back when it actually WAS a delicacy, it was BECAUSE it was a small part of the shark. That's how the concept of "delicacy" WORKS.

[rayman1977918]

gj yao

[Rinaat98]

!yaoming!

[yourowndamnecho]

v No we shouldn't. Firstly, there is the issue of eating endangered species and fucking up the ecosystem. Secondly, shark fin really doesn't have a taste of its own so finding another substitute should not be too difficult (ex. "bubbles" in bubble tea. You eat them for the texture, not the taste).

But the issue is that every Chinese wedding/major celebration I've been to serve shark fin soup as a display of generosity. It's the convincing them to get rid of/replace that tradition thats hard.

[Pokemonandblackberry]

Stfu! We Chinese ppl should still eat this delicacy