Shark Fins

Why the cruelty? While shark fin soup is a delicacy in Asia, we humans kill between 73 and 76 million sharks a year. I know some will say that sharks are purely "organic" animals, surviving on instinct and no brain, no feelings, etc.. BUT they are also immune to cancer, pneumonia, and maybe other diseases and maybe we have thigns to learn from them (and from all of nature, still) before we make them extinct?

And that scene of Asian fishermen, catching a boatload of sharks, some of them young and small, to slice off their fins and then dump the rest of the sharks back into the water... What about the pain to them? Isn't it like getting our fingernails torn off? And can they survive sans fin or do they bleed to death, or rot, or sink, and die? inhumane, and inhuman.
We aren't there yet, folks.

Still nonsense killing and nonsense cruelty to humans, to ourselves, to others. We can do more, we can do better, and we HAVE to do more and do better. Let's start with our own house, our own country where too many are left behind without the basics of medical care, vaccinations, education, food, dignity, human respect, etc..

Welcome to 2009, may it be better than the previous years and tears....