Yesterday, after numerous complaints from Divester and other sites about their peddling shark fin soup, Amazon pulled the product from its pages. However, alert-reader Jennifer has noticed another shark fin product on Amazon. "Made from the finest sharkfin," the American Roland Corp. boasts, "this expensive delicacy is actually the cartilage of the shark's dorsal fin, pectoral fin and the lower portion of the tail fin." Ugh!
Don't let Amazon facilitate the horrific and senseless slaughter of sharks. Take action!
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Leave feedback on the product's page, requesting people stop buying this product.
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Send an e-mail to American Roland Corp.
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Write to Amazon Customer Service and demand they stop selling the product.
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Spread the word. Tell people why shark finning is bad!
If you don't think finning sharks is senseless, have a look at this graphic depiction of finned sharks. Warning: the easily-queasy may be upset.
UPDATE: Amazon is hiding negative comments about sharks and/or finning left by visitors on its site, which I believe is pretty low.
1. Didn't even glance at the video, I'm easier to quease than anyone. Always a little bugged when I see all the fin soup plaecs when I'm in Thailand.
However, is it possible that some of this fin soup is from sharks where the whole thing is harvested? Like for shark steak? Not interested in any case, just wondering if ALL fin soup is necessarily bad.
Posted at 2:04PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Mr Textbooks