How to pronounce “shark fin” in English

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are going into shark fin soup the other 80 million scientists the general public has no idea and so the this you have

every year for shark fin soup.

How has the shark fin campaign made a difference?

And they had the shark fin traders, I've been in the business for 50 years, and my future's never looked so gloomy.

And now it's a shark fin.

We were sued in Thailand by the shark fin traders for cutting their business by 50%.

Yao has been a major spokesperson on the shark fin campaign.

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and then it's stewed together and usually the shark fin is brazed in that.

we also achieve kind of the brittleness of shark fin.

And even to the extent in Chinese, the shark fin soup is called fish wing soup.

So the flavor I knew I could get because it's not coming from the shark fin.

You can see they have this sort of shark fin dip.

So elephant ivory, rhino horn, shark fin soup, pangolins, you name it, sea turtles, tigers, all kinds of animals that are bought and sold

That's-- I sort of have come to think of it as a shark fin a little bit.

-What if you could see how shark fin soup is made?

But we've seen consistently all around the world how we've been able to reduce shark fin consumption by about a third.

And most recently in 2012, the Chinese government actually banned shark fin from state banquets, which is very significant.

And the data we're getting back now is that in 2012, the shark fin trade was reduced between 50% and 70%-- That's tremendous.

And how that feeds back I've seen so many times is that CNN did a piece on the shark fin campaign.

And it said at the end, but he doesn't eat shark fin soup anymore, because his grandchildren asked him not to.

And I'm pretty certain that that California ban was influential in those people giving up shark fin in China, as well.

When most people learn about whatís involved in making a bowl of shark fin, which is basically finning a shark and throwing away the body and keeping the fin, because

And we do it in a squeeze bottle because the round shape resembles the shape of the shark fin. Or the individual strands of the shark fin.

And then you can see in here that we've achieved kind of that elasticity and gelatinous quality of shark fin.

And so, most recently, we've spent a lot of time working on the shark fin soup issue and sharks, and what are, to me,

one of the biggest environmental disasters going on, up to 73 million sharks killed a year for shark fin soup.

Because 15 years ago, the only people in China able to afford shark fin soup would be government officials, frankly.

I mean we did a survey, and it looked like up to 100 million people in China were consuming shark fin soup.

You know, you may have heard a couple of years ago here we got shark fin banned in California.

And for those of you who have had this in the past, if you look at it with the transparency and the color, I mean it's really identical to shark fin.

And then we serve this with some of broth, some of that chicken and ham broth that was the base for the shark fin itself.