No bowl of soup is worth this
Gut-wrenching to watch the finning.
(If you have time, you can watch the full-length version of Gordon Ramsey: Shark Bait)
This is one aspect of Chinese culture we can do away with. And the swelling numbers of affluent mainland Chinese does not bode well for the worldwide shark population at all.
If you have not said no to shark fin soup yet, this is a good time to take a stand. It might make for some awkward wedding dinners but it also provides an opportunity to talk about this problem when people ask why you’re refusing the soup.
If we don’t start to make a difference now, they may not be around by the end of this century. No bowl of soup is worth that.
– Gordon Ramsay