[Sca-cooks] NOT from the NY Times food section, but...

[Terry Decker]

Shark fin soup may be morally objectionable as they are usually cut from the 
live shark after which the incapacitated shark is tossed overboard to drown 
or be eaten.  To the fishermen who catch the sharks, this is likely a matter 
of efficiency and more concern about their comfort than that of the shark.

Bear

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S CLEMENGER" <sclemenger at msn.com>


*Live* turtles? What, uhm, possible culinary edge does vivisection give to a
dish containing live turtles? I don't feel at all squeamish about the
shark's fin, although I'd probably avoid it because of mercury
contamination.....
--Maire's admittedly western mind is boggling at that one....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] NOT from the NY Times food section, but...


Other morally questionable food practices —
> such as eating shark’s fin and cutting up live turtles — don’t
> appear to bother them so much.