Sunday, August 22, 2010

Growing movement in Hong Kong against shark fin...

When Steven Leung and Sylvia Cheung celebrated their nuptials in this southern Chinese financial center recently, they lavished their guests with one sumptuous dish after another—bird nest soup, lobster, abalone.

But one traditional dish was missing from the 13-course Cantonese banquet. The newlyweds chose not to serve shark fin soup.

"I saw the cruelty in shark slaughtering in online videos. The way the fish is dumped back into the water—it is just inhumane," Leung said, referring to the practice of hacking off the fins of sharks, then setting them free. More...

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