Quote from: Sithara007 on June 20, 2017, 01:59:10 AM

Quote from: bkbirge on June 19, 2017, 06:08:35 PM

Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 19, 2017, 04:49:05 PM

I can see a lot of hatred directed at the Chinese in this thread. I admit that the Chinese are not angels. Some of their culinary practices needs to be either banned or modified. But what about the others? For example, shark fin soup is available in most of the American states. Do you know how painful is the practice of cutting off the fins from the sharks? And the less we talk about Foie gras, that better.

Shark fin soup is illegal in many states in the USA. Most places you see that list it list "imitation shark fin soup", though how or if they verify this I have no idea.

Shark fin soup is legal in states such as Florida. There were attempts to ban it, but the restaurant lobby managed to sabotage those attempts. And as far as I know, till now less than 10 states have banned shark fin soup in the United States (includes Texas, California, New York, Washington, Oregon, and a bunch of smaller states).

And what about US? Where are the buffalos? Where are other species? Animal cruelty is happening in every country, look at the meat farms and how they threat animals. All world is in the mess, and probably we should start to think about moving on vegetarianism, only in that way we can save animal's from further exploitation.
I don't like how Chinese threat dogs also, it's closest animal to human, many see dogs as a best friends, I can't understand how they can eat dogs.