Katra wrote:

> "Peter Aitken" > wrote:

> > You might want to think twice about the shark fins. Most of them come from
> > commercial boats that catch large numbers of sharks, cut the fins off, and
> > throw the shark back to slowly die. It's a bit too cruel and wasteful for
> > me.
>
> Ew. I see what you mean. :-P
> At least they could kill the poor things and use them for bait!

My sil recently went to a very fancy Chinese wedding, they had
shark fin soup. When I told her about the practice that Peter
mentioned, she was horrified. She will never have that again.

nancy