I actually fact checked this and it's true.
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And they're gonna go away because some wingnut convinced a bunch of people that their fins cause boners.
That's not even 0.1% of the total fish we kill every year. Granted, that's just sheer numbers, not weight
My point being we sure as heck could be eating that many fins
Delicious mercury.
Sharks hunt smaller predatory fish, which hunt for the same fish as humans. By killing sharks the fishermen are actually increasing their competition.
Huh? what are these smaller predatory fish that we don't eat?
smaller sharks for instance.
Commercial fishing is literally the worst thing in the world, in my opinion, and that's just one fun example of why
And meanwhile there have been 108 attacks on humans in 2022
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/
A family member once had to resort to traditional chinese medicine so solve an issue - and it acctually worked, I will admit upfront - but I kept hearing how shark cartilage capsules was the best to reinforce joints and one day I just snapped and replied along the lines of "by that same logic, to obtain insulin we should be grinding pig pancreas into pills for insulin".
we used to use cow pancreas to get insulin actually. fortunately bioreactors exist and some clever people figured out how to gmo bacteria to make insulin
Oh is THAT what that's about
Is a species being poached to extinction? If so, it's probably because there's some sort of fertility/virility "medicine" derived from it that Asian men will pay insane money for. -tiger -rhino -civet -pangolon -shark
I'm sexually attracted to shark fins, so they certainly cause boners for me.