In Asia, tide slowly turning against shark fin soup

Will lovers of the deluxe Chinese dish eat shark species into extinction? But in Asia, the soup’s culinary home turf, the dish is increasingly regarded as, well, tasteless. Anti-finning advocates, armed with gruesome facts about threatened shark species, are attacking shark fin’s reputation as a status-boosting delicacy. Their mission: to see the culinary tradition die off before the sharks do. Continue reading →