This could be the year we start to save, not slaughter, the shark
The Guardian Newspaper in the UK is reporting that specialist restaurants in Beijing are changing their menus or closing down as the Far East begins to share world revulsion at cutting off shark fins to make a gourmet soup
The gruesome practice of shark finning – sawing the fins off live sharks in order to make a gourmet soup – appears to be declining following growing western revulsion and a Chinese government crackdown on corruption and extravagant consumption.
Read the full article at: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/11/shark-finning-in-decline-in-far-east
