Bill to Ban Shark Fin Trade Reintroduced in the US

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A bill to ban the trade of shark fins is being reintroduced in the United States. The bill would effectively end the sale / trade of shark fins altogether, playing off of a ban on the slaughter of sharks.

“We must join our allies in Canada, who have closed their borders to the destructive shark fin trade and do the same in the United States. We look to finding a path forward on this important issue that a majority of Americans support. The U.S. needs a fin ban now,”
Whitney Webber, Campaign Director at Oceana

The global shark fin trade is slowly but surely decimating the shark population on our planet. There are various estimates about how many sharks are killed for their fins every year, but one could easily estimate over 70 million or more. 70 million sharks slaughtered every year for shark fin soup, a "delicacy" that is contributing to the destruction of one of the ocean's most important members. Worst of all, these sharks are sometimes then thrown back into the ocean, unable to swim, where they inevitably drown or are picked apart by predators while still alive. We're not talking about live saving medicine here, we're talking about a soup that is so utterly unnecessary, it's embarrassing and straight up animal cruelty.

Several countries around the globe have enacted either a full, or partial ban on shark finning / sale & trade. Unfortunately, a partial ban is simply not enough of a commitment when it comes to participating in such a gruesome disrespect of a creature for something we don't even actually need. Shark fin soup is simply another example of human entitlement, something we believe we are entitled to but frankly, don't need. Humans continue to take from the animals kingdom whatever they please, and then rush to save them when it's far too late. Extinction is preventable but it requires us to smarten up long before we decimate a species. Our actions now will determine what kind of future sharks have, and we must collectively end our participation in the shark fin trade. One can only estimate how many sharks there are below the ocean's surface, but if we're killing tens or hundreds of millions of them annually, they're not going to be around forever.

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