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Shark Fins Are a New Taste, Not New in China

Sharks have to worry about humans eating sharks. We consume shark eaters, millions of sharks. If 50 people a year get bitten by sharks, that's big news. Consider the number of shark deaths that we cause every year. Maybe as many as on the order of 80 million sharks are taken, largely for shark fins, for he soup. That's a new taste, not new in china, but newly accessible globily. Now there are people who consider it a luxury, a delicacy, to eat sharks Who never would have dreamed of doing this even ten years ago,. let alone 50 or a hundred. Most people are not aware that unlike chickens that can go to market from

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