Gordon Ramsay eats Shark Fin Soup for the first time!

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Gordon Ramsay from his special "Shark Bait", he tries Shark Fin Soup in Taiwan! This is a must see clip! We donate a portion of all app sales to help saving our oceans and stoping this kind of abuse. You can help, donate here,
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[xiaowlin]

The fin has no flavor, lol, EnjoyableApps, that is one weak weak argument against shark fining. I'm really not trying to disparage you, but you have to do better than that. Aren't most things we first cook with started out with no flavor? If I fry chicken drumsticks, with no marinade or seasoning, guess what? The damn drumsticks is going to taste bland and flavorless too. The same thing goes with steak, ribs, fish, etc....Almost all raw meat, and most vegetables started out with no flavor.

[EnjoyableApps]

This was a response to another post.

I see you new to using this site, you reply to people by selecting "Reply" under the post.

Chicken has no flavor? I don't think you know much about cooking. Chicken has lots of flavor compared to the shark fin, that is why broth is made from chicken.

This is just one of the many reasons not to eat it, the main reason being sharks are endangered because of this dish. Another reason is they are crucial to the ecosystem.

[MrFenirr]

I would prefer breading programs propose by Uncle Sam, which are more professional than this. Just stay in the kitchen and do the cooking, OK? There is nothing more stupid and naive than a simple Ban. Do some homework.

[EnjoyableApps]

Do some homework? It is not possible to bread sharks for fin. Sharks take 12 to 13 years to mature, sharks have very few offspring, sharks need a vey large area to live. How you you make that profitable? You might want to do some homework.

[EnjoyableApps]

Why do you think governments around the world are banning shark fin?

Do you understand sharks are being hunted to the point of extinction? Do you realize how many fishermen will be out of work if sharks go extinct causing the balance of life in the oceans to dramatically shift? You might want to educate yourself on the issue before calling people names who are doing allot to help a serious situation. Watch the whole show, watch Shark Water then think.

[AyeToZay]

Just cause something is part of a culture doesn't mean it is justified. Slavery was a part of American culture for hundreds of years. Should I show some respect? It's cruel for the sharks and it's horrible for the ecosystem.

[NeonStormTV]

Broth has sodium in it. Think about what you just typed. Salt was added with abit of spice in broth.

[MrFenirr]

By the way I'd tell u sth funny, the reason they attempted to use potato first is that they mistaken the sharkfin as some potato noodle like thing in their first encounter to sharkfin soup. Only later they found the composition difference is so big to create anything similar, basically, one is collagen and protein, the other is starch. But their prototype taste good I'd admit.

[BigMikeMcBastard]

Can you name any of Ramsay's foods that is causing species to go extinct? It is not rude to question the ethics of food. A culture can be wrong about how it does things. Sometimes cultures need to change.

[Steammell]

As do bears, tigers, hyenas, and any other wild predator. And yet people are hell bent on saving them from dying out completely, sharks are no different. It's usually people's own foolishness that end up provoking any animal and end up getting them attacked, because the animal was acting on instinct.

[MrFenirr]

Yes, I think u got the point, although I am in the genetic engineering part for drug discovery purposes, I know some group in china working on this. I still remember the trial of one of their prototype made from potatoes, that was really funny. Now they switch to tissue engineering, as you expected.

[MrFenirr]

So that is all you get from Wikipedia? U sure deserve an A in secondary school. 1st. Cattle and Porcine used to have longer maturation cycle, this had been reduced by breeding. 2nd, shark have many offspring and only few survive the competition and this can be (and is being) engineered, just allow the babies to born a bit prematurely, u get a lot of it; 3rd shark cartilage contain potential anti-cancer and anti-aging drugs, invest is in millions.

I am really tired of educating pupils online...

[xiaowlin]

OK, you know what, maybe I'm confusing flavor with taste as a lot of people use these words interchangeably. But it is still not a strong argument. It doesn't matter if the shark fins are flavorless or lack nutrients, as you stated many times. The fact is millions of people are consuming it, beyond flavor and nutrients alone. I mean c'mon, if you can reach out to all the people drinking shark fin soup, lack of flavor and nutrients has got to be the least convincing.

[74205Defiant]

Damn, I thought you were talking about bread crumbing the fins. Maybe new cloning technology by scientists can artificially create things like this