UK Announces Plan to Ban Shark Fins

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The UK has announced plans to ban the shark fin trade as part of an Animal Welfare overhaul. The ban would see the import of detached shark fins & shark fin products banned and would help to protect vulnerable shark species who are at risk of heading towards extinction.

Shark fins are considered a luxury item and are used to make Shark Fin Soup; a delicacy served up in several parts of the world. The practice of obtaining shark fins is undeniably cruel. Fins are forcibly removed and sharks are typically then thrown back into the water where they inevitably drown or get attacked and consumed by other predatory species. Throwing a defenseless animal into the ocean with no ability to swim is torture and the perfect example of animal cruelty. 

While there is no way to truly know how many sharks remain in the ocean, what we do know is that approximately 100 million sharks are slaughtered every year. Overfishing is destroying our oceans and continues to put sharks and other non-target species at risk. Couple that with the demand for shark fin soup and we're looking at tens of millions of sharks killed every year. Although we can only predict how many sharks remain, we can only assume that slaughtering nearly 100 million on a yearly basis is having a negative impact on their populations. Much like every other species we slaughter in the wild in mass quantities, where will we go when we've completely decimated them? I honestly don't believe this thought crosses the mind of those who are helping to destroy their populations, but it most certainly should. 

Every single species on the endangered species list was at one time abundant in the wild until humans had their go of things. We are the plague of this planet and are wholly responsible for the perils other species on our planet face. We take everything we want without regard and then rush to offer these same species "protections" to prevent them from going extinct. Then, we spend decades working on conservation only to remove them from the Endangered Species List and open them up to the exact same perils they faced prior to being protected. We're so warped and completely out of touch with the destruction we are causing.

Shark fin soup is ridiculous. It's not a necessity and it's responsible for a large chunk of those 100 million sharks that are killed by humans every year. The UK is right to ban the import of detached fins and the rest our planet should be jumping on board. We're not talking necessities, we're talking novelties and sharks are being killed in such mass quantities for something so utterly ridiculous. The only thing to do is ban shark fin soup and ban the practice of shark finning globally. There's no excuse for consuming a soup that is embroiled in so much cruelty outside of our warped sense of entitlement. 

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