Sunday, November 29, 2009

Alternative Medicine: You're killing the sharks

A giant, loving Fuck You to the entire shark cartilage industry.









Those are freezers right beside it. Where the fish to be eaten is stored. Kept fresh.

Four massive doors of ice, temperature regulation and the intention keeping food fresh. The sharks could have been in there, too. Only, nobody wants them. They only want their fins for soup and pills in the false belief that it will cure cancer and make men more potent.

Fuck you.

We approached the fisheries police, regulators, men in bright orange jackets....'in Taiwan we eat all" was their response. But these two sharks sat here all night, were covered in flies and starting to rot. Nobody was going to eat them. They were, check for yourself, a body length away from a freezer.

Killed in the name of pseudo-science, mythology and untethered belief.

Guess what words come to mind....?