(TW) Taiwan civic groups protest sale of shark-fin soup

[Guest guest]

>What these groups need to start doing is promoting an alternative. If an

>expensive humane dish (soup, preferably, perhaps) can be trumpeted as THE

>dish to serve at weddings, and shark fin derided as passe (and maybe even

>cheap by comparison), then consumers would be likely to switch.

>Just can't think of a very expensive vegetable dish that could supplant it .

>. . truffle soup?

 

 

Judging by the smell of shark fins & what I have been told by

consumers about the taste, old plastic flip-flops marinaded in

shoreline detritus would be indistinguishable from the real thing.

 

 

 

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I really like this type of thinking for a solution. This is what we have to

do. I am sure we can find something as we are now on the right track.

 

 

 

What these groups need to start doing is promoting an alternative. If an

expensive humane dish (soup, preferably, perhaps) can be trumpeted as THE

dish to serve at weddings, and shark fin derided as passe (and maybe even

cheap by comparison), then consumers would be likely to switch.

 

Just can't think of a very expensive vegetable dish that could supplant it .

.. . truffle soup?

 

Any thoughts?

 

Sean McCormack

 

Co-Founder, Taiwan SPCA

 

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