Do you think it’s unethical to eat shark?

[Lynn2001]

Yes

No

[purplepoppy]

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.

[Lynn2001]

I didn’t know that, that’s what I used to see in the past. What other parts of the body are eaten?

[Lynn2001]

Can be*

[purplepoppy]

The meat plus the liver is a good source of fish oil. Shark's don't have bones so you won't choke on one either

[Seinna]

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.

[globetrotter22]

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?

[BCRanger10]

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.

[Minerate]

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)

[Кураж]

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.

[NamerOfStars]

Not inherently. I imagine it'd be difficult to raise them commercially, but difficult ist't impossible, and it could bebione sustainably.

Which kind of makes be wonder why no one's doing it with horseshoe crabs...

[CloudMassacre]

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

[OddBeMe]

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.

[Adam1978]

Not if you eat most of it. If you only eat the fin and throw them back in dying it's unethical.

[Redstang88]

At the moment yes. We’re pillaging the ocean at a rate far exceeding sustainability and shark populations are in worse shape than most

[TheorionMage]

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!!!
THAT, is 'cold'!

[purplepoppy]

So do humans. Left handed people are the surviving twin

[Sixgunsound]

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.

[TommyMountainFigure]

Only if the shark feels it unethical to eat humans!

In other words. no. I still wouldn't eat it though.

[Whatever2929292]

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

[andreasderjuengere]

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.

[zagor]

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.

[FunkyMonkee]

Sharks don't think it's unethical to eat us! Turnabout's fair play!

[BlackBeauty90]

More sharks are killed by humans than humans are by sharks. You're more likely to be killed by fido than you are a shark. So go eat fido.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BlackBeauty90 Me & Fido will sit on the beach and watch you swim with a school of sharks.

[BlackBeauty90]

@FunkyMonkee - as long as I am not bleeding & don't thrash around I'm safer with the sharks than you are with fido. Sharks follow only certain instincts to attack. Fido can go from happy to ripping your throat out simply because you're nervous.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BlackBeauty90 Wanna bet? I've had dogs all my life!! At least 12 (not including Sammi's 7 puppies), I've been close to numerous other dogs. So far, I've had ONE guard dog bite my ankle while I was riding my bike across an area I probably shouldn't have been in. Of all the dogs I've owned, only one had to be shot because some asshole dog catcher needed to fill his quota, came to our back gate, called Dixie over and he grabbed her and took her away!! At one point, he hit her in the head with a gun which caused her to go mad. The only other bad experience I've had with dogs is that my sister's dog started biting people that picked him up, a friends dog would get so excited to see me she'd start peeing while wagging his tail and the piss would get flung all over the place off her tail, one of my fiance's 3 dogs loved me so much that she'd run circles around me for 10:00 as soon as I set foot in her apartment and I couldn't even get close enough to hug or kiss my girlfriend and, her third dog was so much in love with me that, if I sat down somewhere, she'd start humping my leg like a boy dog and even came on my leg a few times!!
Dog's LOVE me!! I've been with dogs that a lot of people were scared to death of and those dogs treated ME like royalty!! They can just TELL that I'm someone that'd be great for them to hang out with!!
In the meantime, I've seen divers go into shark-infested waters and, if they weren't in that metal cage at the time, those sharks would've had an easy lunch!! Go ahead and try it without the cage, sometime! Let's see how well you do.
I'll gladly put my nearly 60 years with dogs up against your swimming with sharks for 15:00, IF you last that long!!

[FunkyMonkee]

@BlackBeauty90 Go fuck yourself, you stupid cunt!! Give me video of YOU swimming with sharks!!

[Lynn2001]

He’s a troll.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, but SHE is!

[BlackBeauty90]

@FunkyMonkee - how am I a troll when stating facts? Hmmm...
More than 800,000 people per year report requiring medical attention for their dog bites
https://petkeen.com/dog-bite-statistics/

The 2021 worldwide total of 73 confirmed unprovoked cases (of shark bites)
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/.../

Come back when you have a brain.

[BlackBeauty90]

There were 11 shark-related fatalities this year 2021

In 2020, 46 people were killed by dogs

[MrNameless]

lmao you proved her point. You got bit by a dog before a shark

[FunkyMonkee]

@MrNameless Yeah, A dog! It only nipped at my ankle. What about the dozens of others I've hung around with or owned? NONE of them EVER bit me!!

[Lynn2001]

If you’re so scared of sharks then don’t swim at the ocean since you think there’s a high chance a shark will swim up and eat you

[Squaresquirrel]

No more unethical than eating reindeer or fin whale.

[20yearsolder]

I don't, just like it's not unethical to eat a cow or a salmon or a trout

[RuthlessAggression]

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

[RuthlessAggression]

However, to answer your question though, as a meat eater myself, no I don't think it's unethical. I know vegetarians who have actually gone back to eating meat because they missed it too much

[ArtemisSilver]

Depends on their conservation status. However you don't want to eat predators, because they concentrate pollution from the environment.

[NorthwestRider]

They love cutting off the fins off

The Chinese were under hot water for that

Save the sharks

[sheikalana]

Is just weird to me. I wouldn't eat shark. I feel the same about frog's legs. I would never do it.

[helva]

Yes if it is a variety that is in danger of extinctIon,
otherwise not.

[exitseven]

What is the difference between eating a shark and eating a flounder?

[joeldalton]

Yes. Many sharks are threatened, and they don’t reproduce quickly. They are essential to a healthy ocean.

[fred_durst]

if i swim at sea a shark would not hesitate to eat me
so why i can't do the same

[siseñor]

so by that logic are you going to kill the shark yourself too

[Jamie05rhs]

Why would it be unethical? They eat us, too. It's a fair play.

[Lynn2001]

I think only few of them do unless you make them too uncomfortable by getting too close to them. But because the only part that is edible is the fin so their entire body may be being wasted

[Birbman]

Yes, many of them are endangered and even if it's a non-endangered species, it's easy to get lots of mercury, so even less of a reason

[Anonymous]

I kind of agree that it's unethical. Just because I know the way sharks are typically killed when caught. They are dragged on a line behind the boat for miles until dead.

[Deathraider]

I think sharks are dying out if I’m not wrong, so we probably shouldn’t hunt them.

[Ihatethewill]

Nope. The sharks eat ate us, and now it's payback time.

[Grubhub]

We should kill em off because they’re eating all our food in the sea

[Redstang88]

No that’s humans

[Grubhub]

@black beauty 90s there’s lots of black women and other people I know who are uneducated in other areas so you’re a hypocrite. Please reply because I’d love to have this discussion with you

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Like eating any other meat, no. I don't have that western supremacy mindset.

[Daniela1982]

Why? They would eat us if they had half a chance.

[joeldalton]

Lol, no they wouldn’t.

[saintsRow3]

You must think sharks are your friends

[joeldalton]

@saintsRow3 They’re not friends, I don’t meet sharks out for a beer. But they certainly have 0 interest in seeing people as a food source.

[Lynn2001]

Sharks rarely eat people. They rarely even attack people unless you cross their boundaries by getting too close to them

[joeldalton]

Sharks kill about 9 people a year (total for the entire world). Humans kill about 100,000,000 sharks a year.

[saintsRow3]

Go Jump in the water then and swim with Sharks 🦈 And see how Fast your Mauled to death.

[Daniela1982]

@Lynn2001 @joeldalton Tell that to the crew of the USS Indianapolis.

[joeldalton]

@saintsRow3 I do all the time.

[joeldalton]

@daniela1982 That is a rare occurrence. Certainly not the norm.

[BlackBeauty90]

More sharks are killed by humans than humans are by sharks. You're more likely to be killed by fido than you are a shark. So go eat fido.

[BlackBeauty90]

@saintsRow3 More sharks are killed by humans than humans are by sharks. You're more likely to be killed by fido than you are a shark. So go eat fido.

[Anonymous]

No, we should just bite the s*** out of them like they do everything else.

[Anonymous]

Eating sharks, nope; de-finning them and then throwing them back into the ocean, yes.

[007kingifrit]

is it unethical for sharks to eat ME?

[Lynn2001]

I could be wrong but I don’t think sharks eat or attack people often. Usually they only it when you make them uncomfortable by getting too close to them

[007kingifrit]

you're right vending machines kill people more often than sharks. and people are more than 16,000x more likely to select reeses pieces from a vending machine than to die at the vending machine. but that just tells us that sharks taste like reeses pieces.

[WhitneySnow]

Only if sharks are an endangered species

[Drumlin2001]

Nope. We eat a lot of other species.

[crmoore]

Are they endangered or something?

[Lynn2001]

I don’t know but the only part of them that is edible is their fin so people argue that it’s wrong to eat them when the rest of their body isn’t used for anything

[Lynn2001]

Can’t be used*

[crmoore]

I see where they're coming from.

[Gibbons44]

Not if it doesn't eat you first

[TenkRealist]

Nah it isn't.

[Anonymous]

Shark is ethically fished. Shark fins are not.

[Shamalien]

it’s unethical to eat any animal

[TallAnon]

Nope, a cow or a shark, what's the difference.

[SpaceGalaxy]

Sharks think it is ethical for them to eat us

[Grubhub]

Exactly and what do they do for us but eat out seafood up?

[BlackBeauty90]

More sharks are killed by humans than humans are by sharks. You're more likely to be killed by fido than you are a shark. So go eat fido.

[saintsRow3]

😂 your funny

[dustybiker]

Yes.

[jshm2]

Unethical to who?

[MrTaboo]

Shark is very yummy

[Lynn2001]

Have you had it before?

[MrTaboo]

Yes. Very good.

[Lynn2001]

What kind of dish was it and how was it made?

[MrTaboo]

All I remember was it was shark steak. Can't remember how it was prepared.

[Uptowngirl88]

Very..

[Joker_]

I hate sharks

[bamesjond0069]

Why would it be?

[clemdenim]

Why would it be

[clemdenim]

shark would have no problem eating you