Also, shark fin soup is especially cruel. More often than not, the shark is finned and kicked back into the ocean to suffer because the meat isn’t worth jack compared to the fins. Most of the flavour in shark fin soup comes from ingredients other than the shark’s cartilaginous fins.
I mean... fish eat smaller fish all the time. Sometimes even from same species. Or is this some weird fish society where only non-fish eating fish are allowed? FISH SUPREMACISTS
@Mah_Buddy_Keith
Yeah, it's f*cked up and cruel, just like whaling. What's worse, is that the soup made with sharkfins is also rather tasteless according to people trying it, it flavor actually comes from the other ingredients (which is kind of expected considered that shark fins are mostly made of cartilagine), so people buy it just because it's expensive and a status symbol.
This is true for some sharks, those that rely on having to push water through their gills by movement. Some sharks can breathe just fine without movement.
In fact, MOST sharks don't need to move to breathe.