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Do you think it’s unethical to eat shark?
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It depends on the species of shark and how sustainable it is. The problem is a lot take years to reach breeding age and only produce a small number of off spring. But other are abundant even reaching pest level in some areas.
It's not true that only the fin is edible, the meat of many can be eaten but in a lot it tastes of ammonia.
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Not more than any other animal. If I were to separate animals into more or less worthy it would be based on their intelligence (especially emotional). Hence I don't think eating dogs is more unethical than eating pigs... it's just weird if you happen to own one as a pet at the same time.
If they are endangered absolutely. But it’s no different than eating fish if their not.
However isn’t most of the shark inedible anyway? Only the liver can be consumed? I believe they excrete waste through their skin. So eating shark is like eating a delicacy?
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No. Not only did the jerk-face eat a bunch of people, but he was also somehow able to coax a two-hour so-called "innovative classic" movie with increasingly disastrous sequels.
Forks out, chumps! It's dinner time.
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As long as the whole animal is mostly eaten, I have no issue. I do have an issue where they just harvest the fin and throw the animal back. That's mostly because the fin does not regrow and usually the shark dies shortly afterwards. (So a large net waste)
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Not really, since they are wild caught and most shark species aren't threatened, I'd say it is among the more ethical meats to eat.
Except it's really bad for your health since shark meat is among the most contaminated with heavy metals due to their diet and size. - 575 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Not inherently. I imagine it'd be difficult to raise them commercially, but difficult ist't impossible, and it could bebione sustainably.
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There’s sustainable ways of eating sharks. I’m against catching them, cutting off their fins and tossing them back in the ocean. But there’s ways to regulate how many sharks and what kind/age of shark to catch. Like with lobster, they have to be over a certain size so they have several opportunities to breed, and breeding females tails are marked so other people know that it’s a breeding lobster. Do the same with sharks, have some scientists figure out what’s best
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I’ve read some Japanese fishermen cut the fins off sharks while they’re alive and toss them back into the water. So yeah, that way sure it’s unethical.
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Not if you eat most of it. If you only eat the fin and throw them back in dying it's unethical.
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At the moment yes. We’re pillaging the ocean at a rate far exceeding sustainability and shark populations are in worse shape than most
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NOTHING unethical in consuming any animal... that given the opportunity, would eat you!
Were you AWARE that some species of sharks actually consume THEIR siblings IN THE WOMB!!!
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What are the ethical standards at issue here? Shark doesn’t make it onto many menus where I live, so I don’t really have much experience with the matter.
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Only if the shark feels it unethical to eat humans!
In other words. no. I still wouldn't eat it though. -
I love shark and alligator when I go to Florida though I have not been down there in a long time. Don't knock it until you try it
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I think that it's fine. I just HATE the shark fin ''industry, that treats these animals in a very cruel way.
Kill it - eat it.
But don't just chop off pieces and leave the shark to die. - 449 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
No. There are plenty of sharks in the sea. The ongoing pollution of the oceans is a far bigger concern than catching and eating a few sharks.
In fact there are more GW's off the coast than there have been for generations. - 826 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Sharks don't think it's unethical to eat us! Turnabout's fair play!
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No more unethical than eating reindeer or fin whale.
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I don't, just like it's not unethical to eat a cow or a salmon or a trout
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Depends on their conservation status. However you don't want to eat predators, because they concentrate pollution from the environment.
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They love cutting off the fins off
The Chinese were under hot water for that
Save the sharks -
I didn't know you could.
If you're going to ask if it's unethical to eat a shark (an animal), then why not just ask if it's unethical to eat any animal, ya know, like vegetarians and vegans - 924 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Is just weird to me. I wouldn't eat shark. I feel the same about frog's legs. I would never do it.
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