Personally, I have been to too many banquets and dinners that serve shark fin soup as a standard dish. Although I cannot claim to be an environmental activist myself, I was always disturbed by the idea of the grossly overpriced dish simply because it felt like nothing more than a pompous display of spending power. In other words, it’s one of many ways to score bonus points for the oriental ‘Face‘.
(top image: Over 3,500 shark fins being sun-dried in Taiwan. - via National Georaphic)
In any case, about 100 million sharks are killed every year for their fins – a statistical fact that has been creatively put into a dramatically huge infographic by marketing wizard Joe Chernov and the folks at RIPETUNGI.
*Warning: Extremely long image below
(image via RIPETUNGI)
BY KENNETH LIM
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