Shark fin campaign targets Chinese NY

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Shark fin protest on Chinese NY

Published: 10 Feb 2013 at 21.11
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Animal rights advocates launched a nation-wide campaign against the sale and consumption of shark fins on Sunday as celebrations to mark Chinese New Year continue with huge banquets which traditionally serve the controversial delicacy.

The campaign dubbed "Fin Free Thailand" aims to encourage more businesses to ban shark fin soup and advises consumers to refrain from eating the dish by drawing attention to the environmental impact and health risks.The launch took place at Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok which was among the first businesses in Thailand to ban shark fins. "It breaks my heart that up to 73 million sharks are brutally harvested each year just so their fins can end up in soup bowls of the rich and wealthy. Such a waste, such a tragic loss," said actress and avid diver Cindy Burbridge Bishop, an ambassador for the campaign.Shark fin soup has been identified as a serious health risk for humans. Mrs Bishop, citing the World Health Organisation, said one bowl of shark fin soup contains dangerous levels of mercury. Ingestion of mercury has been linked to numerous health problems, including reproductive and foetal development complications.The campaign ambassador called on consumers to help take shark fin soup off the menus of local hotels and restaurants by signing the Fin...

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Asterix
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Discussion 17 : 11 Feb 2013 at 12.5517
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Good action.... but where was TDA Diving Association (Thailand), PADI, SSI, NAUI, CMAS and other dive organisations?
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Discussion 16 : 11 Feb 2013 at 10.2416
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Disc.1ploydonut and Dics.3 Sally23. Man say sharkfin soup is aphrodisiac. You like, very good right? No matter that sharkfin has no nutritional value and shark is killed in a very, inhumane and barbaric way, so long as it makes you happy.
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Discussion 15 : 11 Feb 2013 at 09.4815
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@mamuanbBkk Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the tenor of your post, the fact is that they were hauling sacks full of shark fins onto the pier here on Phuket not so long ago. I suspect they've moved their noxious illegal trade somewhere farther away from the epicenter of the island that is Chalong!
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Discussion 14 : 11 Feb 2013 at 09.4114
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I propose that the US do indeed set up their purported FEMA camps, with the world following suit, and put all human beings in them to reduce the catastrophic effect the human race has had on other species.
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Discussion 13 : 11 Feb 2013 at 08.0113
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I think it is good idea to create the shark farm. Then no more protest because the shark in the ocean can be free to kill, and the shark in the farm for food can make good dinner. Everyone happy. I agree with Dis 1.
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Discussion 12 : 11 Feb 2013 at 07.1512
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One thing that may be funny about this story after looking at the photo is how many rich model family will stop eating Shark Fin as it is a rich person soup in Thailand
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Discussion 11 : 11 Feb 2013 at 06.0711
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Why should the slaughter of Sharks,Elephants & Rhino's continue in this millenium?
Just so certain cultures can continue on with their prehistoric ideas & beliefs from the past.
These beliefs from elders who told us what good aphrodisiacs these animal components are, still go unchallenged because of culture.
Why should these creatures be annihilated,so humans can fantasise.
Pharmaceuticals are available if needed at a fraction of the cost to the Wildlife & the Planet!
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Discussion 10 : 11 Feb 2013 at 05.3510
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@sally23 .. foreigners should respect the Chinese more ? .. for counterfeiting our goods and destroying the planet with total disregard for laws that protect it, not to mention the noise the Chinese make wherever they are and the disrespect they have for their own people and human rights ...

The list goes on, respect is earned not demanded
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Discussion 9 : 11 Feb 2013 at 05.329
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If this protest works, perhaps their next project should be to encourage the banning chicken feet, or are we still at the maturity level of thinking there are "good" and "bad" animals?
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Discussion 8 : 11 Feb 2013 at 03.368
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@Silly23: Which culture you mean, it's a Chinese Culture and not Thai! Which is reason for illegal killing of all kind of animals around the world, because of Strange beliefs..this doesn't give you the right to exterminate animals on this Planet!
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