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Dai Muff
If they cared about these poor fishermen they could simply have paid them better for the sharks fins for all these years.
Exactly. Humans can find other jobs and livelihoods. Sharks can't grow back their fins or recover their lives. The HK Marine Products Association people are amongst the most immoral scum I've ever seen on this earth.
Airlines are doing the right thing. People should spread the words that shark fins are simply nutritionally inferior to ordinary foods, so don't waste your money.
I think it is the deplorable way the sharks are killed - fins cut off while in the ocean and sharks sink to the bottom to suffocate - that most people have a problem with. The 'poor' fishermen don't seem to need the rest of the shark meat.
The Japanese kill their own whales with their "research vessels", so they probably don't need any airlines to ship the meat.
I could be biased, but I just find it interesting that the outrage against Japan and Norway's whale hunting doesn't seem nearly as fierce as those about shark fins.
Just because some people make a living out of doing something does not make the thing moral or right. It also does not mean they should be guaranteed to the same livelihood forever. People in all sorts of industries would loose their jobs or have to close their businesses because of new technologies that replace their products, changes in social attitude towards their products, or changes in policy. Society progresses and things change, and it is inevitable that some industries will go down and others will thrive.
The decline in shark fin import to HK is a positive change that should be welcomed. Good job with the environmentalist campaign. It is unfortunate that these fishermen have to suffer, but they will eventually move on, just as the VHS producers, photo film developers, and slave traders moved on and found other things to do.
The Japanese has declared to the world they rejected CITES, this means they will carry on to kill sharks and whales for commercial purposes. Just want to know which airline is working for them to deliver the goods!
They still wanna us consume Poisonous Shark Meat and Fins, NO WAY !!!
Stop making this a cultural or ethnicity thing. Culture has nothing to do with this. Europeans wiped out a lot of native fauna when they settled in North America and Australia. And even today many Americans complain that environmental policies protecting natural habitats are hurting their "livelihoods", in a manner not unlike what this Ricky Leung is doing. Human overpopulation is the culprit for all the environmental problems, not just any specific culture.
It's time for the government to step up and do something to resolve the opposite stances.



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