A Mad Mike comment: Japs murder over 73 MILLION sharks a year for a bowl of soup

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There are some things that trip my trigger and one of those trigger trippers is the needless slaughter of our living creatures.

The Japanese have been raping our marine environment for centuries.  They murder daily our whales, seals, sharks and other creatures great and small.  They spend millions a year to pay poachers in America to kill OUR wildlife so that their men can get erections by feeding on bear bladders, and etc.

These people kill over 73 million sharks a year so that they can have a bowl of soup.  They cut off the fins of the sharks and throw them back in the water where they bleed to death or they deliver them to local warehouses where the sharks starve for lack of oxygen and die where they lay.

It is time this barbarism ended, and please don’t give me the cow, pig, chicken thing.  Sharks are “top of the food chain” predators.  Without them there will be no food chain.   So instead of us worrying about what the Gulf oil spill didn’t do why don’t we start thinking about what the Japs are doing to our ecosystem.  Why don’t we boycott Jap restaurants where shark fin soup is on the menu?

If this weren’t enough did you know that the Japs pay others to hunt the ingredients for their soup?  Did you know what they use as bait?  Now you do:

Consider the words of the victims of shark attacks:

They have the scars and missing limbs that make it hard to forgive, but these victims are tougher than most. And now they want to save their attackers. They are shark attack survivors, a band of nine thrown together in an unlikely and ironic mission to conserve the very creatures that ripped their flesh, tore off their limbs and nearly took their lives.

They want nations to adopt a resolution that would require them to greatly improve how fish are managed, including shark species of which nearly a third are threatened with extinction or on the verge of being threatened.

“We do not have scientific management plans for how many sharks can be caught,” Matt Rand, director of Global Shark Conservation for the Pew Environment Group told reporters at the United Nations on Monday. “There are no limits.”

Speaking with the attack survivors at a news conference held to draw attention to the world’s dwindling shark population, Rand said the U.N. and its member nations must do more to resolve the problem.

[Human vs. animal: More amazing tales of survival]

“If a group like us can see the value in saving sharks, can’t everyone?” asked Florida shark bite victim Debbie Salamone, 44, whose Achilles tendon was severed in a 2004 attack.

Salamone, a former journalist, joined the Washington-based nonprofit Pew Environment Group and recruited like-minded shark attack survivors to work for shark conversation.

[Related video: California surfer records great white shark circling his board]

The group gathered at U.N. headquarters Monday hoping to win new protections globally for the ocean’s top predators.

“We do not have scientific management plans for how many sharks can be caught,” Matt Rand, director of Global Shark Conservation for the Pew Environment Group told reporters at the United Nations. “There are no limits.”

Speaking with the attack survivors at a news conference held to draw attention to the world’s dwindling shark population, Rand said the U.N. and its member nations must do more to resolve the problem.

Among the group’s goals is to end the practice of shark finning, which kills an estimated 73 million sharks a year. Fishermen slice off shark fins, which sell for hundreds of dollars a pound for use in soup mostly in Asian markets, but dump the animal back in the water where it drowns or bleeds to death.

Because sharks are slow growing, late to mature and produce few young, they are unable to replenish their populations as quickly as they are caught, Rand said in an earlier interview. Shark attack survivors also have sought U.S. legislation to close what they view as loopholes in the country’s shark finning ban.

The survivors, ages 21 to 55, say being in the wrong place at the wrong time needn’t diminish their love for the ocean, where they enjoyed surfing, swimming and diving and knew the risks.

They now see greater risks to the sharks and are asking the U.N. to halt fishing of threatened and near-threatened shark species and adopt shark conservation plans to study and impose scientific limits on shark catches.

Former lifeguard Achmat Hassiem, 29, of Cape Town, South Africa, lost his foot when a shark attacked him during rescue practice four years ago and said he now believes certain things happen for a reason.

“My dream was to one day become a marine biologist and focus on helping and protecting Earth’s aquatic life. To participate in this event is an honor,” he said.

More than a decade ago, nations agreed to voluntarily produce shark management plans, but only about 40 of some 130 nations followed through. International trade restrictions are in place for only three shark species: basking, whale and white sharks.

“Do we have the right to drive any animal to the brink of extinction before any action is taken?” asked Navy diver Paul de Gelder, 33, of Sydney, Australia, who lost his right hand and right lower leg in an attack last year during antiterrorism exercises.

“Regardless of what an animal does according to its base instincts of survival, it has its place in our world,” he said. “We have an obligation to protect and maintain the natural balance of our delicate ecosystems.”

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10 years ago

You are a moronic fear monger. no one would use a live dog as shark bait. if they did, they would not hook it through the lips, this would tear out the second the dog shook its head. either the photo is doctored, or the dog snapped at a swinging hook on a fishing rod. way to keep people stupid, lie to them.

13 years ago

Nuke ’em again!…well?….it worked before didn’t it?

(are you serious Dinners???)

The Nips have been decimating whales and sharks and whatever else for donkey’s years. They’ll stop when someone makes them stop and that won’t happen. Ever. Sadly.

…and no, I don’t really mean nuke ’em – it’d cost too much money for one thing….

13 years ago

Veganism for all! Wait, no? Well then, I’m not sure where to draw the line–how do we distinguish the value of any one type of life relative to any other?

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13 years ago

I can think of one apex predator that hasn’t learned its lesson. Think of the ripple effect a a billion fewer Japs would have. Can’t nuke em, you’ll get collateral damage within the species you’re trying to save. Their inhumane food-raising practices will breed a deadly virus soon enough.

13 years ago

Generally the Japanese establishment do not criticize what any other country does with the environment, whether others strip their own country clean of trees or poison their waterways. So they behave in a way that suggests “I don’t criticize you, so leave me alone.” They preserve their own forests and treat them as holy, but would buy every tree in the Pacific northwest if they could. The Japanese are sponsoring the over-fishing of the Bluefin Tuna so they can eat their Sushi, I have read there are six years worth of prime Tuna in cold storage, just in case the world puts a maximum allowed on the Tuna business. The Japanese are not immune to international laws on environmental concerns.

13 years ago

It is sickening to read of the slaughter that you post about, Mike.

The Japanese refuse to heed in their whaling, they mass slaughter dolphins, a creature arguably more intelligent than us, as brought up in that heart wrenching documentary “The Cove”

They pay for the murder of animals here strictly for some small body part to be ground up into powder.

They cut the fins off of sharks and throw the rest back into the ocean.

Excellent!! Thank you for posting about this, Mike. Someone that isn’t affected by this post cannot be human!

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