![For reference, you don’t put sharks fin in porridge. Porridge is peasant/home food at less than $1 a bowl, and sharks fin traditionally goes into soup which is considerably more than $1 a bowl. Shark porridge is also no different to buying shark at fish and chip shops in Australia.
The sharks whose fins are the subject of such a lot of controversy don’t actually have edible/sale-able meat (that I have been informed), which is part of what makes their slaughter for just the fins such a shame. With my upbringing and culture, we don’t like waste, so I’d feel better about the whole thing if we could eat the rest of the shark as well, or at least put the rest of the shark to good use.
Also, I have no regrets or shame about eating and enjoying the food that I do regardless of the social stigmas attached to it. I don’t go out of my way to find these items because they’re usually costly, and harder to acquire due to the issues surrounding rarity and sometimes questionable ways that they are sourced. But I don’t turn away food if it’s given to me, because it would be just as much of an atrocity to waste it.
On a side note, much of the western world[1] comes down hard on other cultures who eat foods they’re not accustomed to, and I can’t speak for all cultures or people, but I know that I don’t waste. Nose-to-tail is where it’s at. I know and hear of a lot of people who don’t eat those parts or other unconventional meats because it’s ‘gross’ or ‘not normal’, but these same people will happily criticise others for what they choose to ingest.
And places like the UK have a stigma against veal because they feel it’s inhumane to consume baby bull meat, but have no problem with them being destroyed which is what happens to many of them anyway. Isn’t it as much of a travesty to waste the life of an animal when so many people are living in hunger around the world?
Moral of this post: Don’t waste good food.
[1] I know not all of the western world. Some people have always had a nose-to-tail attitude, and more are becoming adventurous, possibly due to popularisation through cooking and lifestyle shows and travel.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/af6e132ca51dd4a78f1ca48e4c3ac75e/tumblr_mn6bdcvce31qz86zko1_500.png)
For reference, you don’t put sharks fin in porridge. Porridge is peasant/home food at less than $1 a bowl, and sharks fin traditionally goes into soup which is considerably more than $1 a bowl. Shark porridge is also no different to buying shark at fish and chip shops in Australia.
The sharks whose fins are the subject of such a lot of controversy don’t actually have edible/sale-able meat (that I have been informed), which is part of what makes their slaughter for just the fins such a shame. With my upbringing and culture, we don’t like waste, so I’d feel better about the whole thing if we could eat the rest of the shark as well, or at least put the rest of the shark to good use.
Also, I have no regrets or shame about eating and enjoying the food that I do regardless of the social stigmas attached to it. I don’t go out of my way to find these items because they’re usually costly, and harder to acquire due to the issues surrounding rarity and sometimes questionable ways that they are sourced. But I don’t turn away food if it’s given to me, because it would be just as much of an atrocity to waste it.
On a side note, much of the western world[1] comes down hard on other cultures who eat foods they’re not accustomed to, and I can’t speak for all cultures or people, but I know that I don’t waste. Nose-to-tail is where it’s at. I know and hear of a lot of people who don’t eat those parts or other unconventional meats because it’s ‘gross’ or ‘not normal’, but these same people will happily criticise others for what they choose to ingest.
And places like the UK have a stigma against veal because they feel it’s inhumane to consume baby bull meat, but have no problem with them being destroyed which is what happens to many of them anyway. Isn’t it as much of a travesty to waste the life of an animal when so many people are living in hunger around the world?
Moral of this post: Don’t waste good food.
[1] I know not all of the western world. Some people have always had a nose-to-tail attitude, and more are becoming adventurous, possibly due to popularisation through cooking and lifestyle shows and travel.
