Tuesday, September 23, 2008

STOP SHARK FINNING NOW !!!!







(1) Shark finning is a cruel and inhuman act. Sharks that are caught as you can see in the picture above will have their fins remove while they are struggling for their live to get back into the water.......try n imagine if someone were to plunge you underwater and use a parang to remove your hand...that'll give you an impression how it feels like for the shark...


(2) I believe that the practice will only stop once there is no demand for it. Otherwise it will continue in existence foreverNo matter how much regulations that is put in place as long as there is a demand for the shark fins there will always be more than an ever willing suppliers to supply the shark fins regardless of the laws.

(3) It came as shock to me that on a break fast dinner at a 5 star hotel in Kuala Lumpur there was shark fin served in the 8 course menu.

Each person was presented with one bowl, at each table was around 10 person....6 tables means 60 bowls.....assuming it takes one fin to make one soup...that translates to 60 SHARK FINS per banquet....and i imagine there must be more than one banquet going on at that time PER DAY !!!.....assuming on the conservative side that there is another similar banquet going on at that time...thats another 60 bowls......total added to our banquet...thats 120 SHARK FINS per day...

thats........120 x 30.....3600 SHARK FINS a month ...FOR ONE HOTEL !!!!.......truly we humans are the real predators in this world....... imagine if it is more than one hotel in KL ( which i suspect it is) that is doing this abominable practice.......

(4) I am now in the midst of writing a letter to this irresponsible hotel. This menu must be taken off from their servings or otherwise they will find themselves in the midst of a very unpopular publicity fiasco.

Note:
"According to the "Global Biodiversity Outlook 2", a report released by the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity, we humans are currently responsible for the 6th major extinction event in the history of the Earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago."

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