Earlier this week we reported on the row between Lord Antony Rufus-Issacs and Sir David Tang, owner of China Tang at The Dorchester Hotel, over the sale of shark fin soup by the restaurant.
The End of the Line started a campaign to ask China Tang not to serve shark fin soup, which proved to be short-lived as Sir David agreed not to serve the soup at the London restaurant following pressure from environment groups.
Screenshot of the Island Tang website showing shark fin soup
However, Sir David has come under renewed attack after it became clear that shark fin soup remains on the menu of Island Tang, the Hong Kong restaurant that he also runs.
The restaurant’s website has a specific section for shark fin, that carries 11 different dishes.
Shark fin soup is contentious as the fins are often ‘harvested’ by cutting the fins off live sharks that are then thrown back into the sea to bleed to death, unable to swim.
We feel it is very hypocritical for Sir David to withdraw shark fin soup from his restaurant in London, but to keep it on the menu in the rest of Asia.
In light of this The End of the Line is re-starting its campaign to ask Sir David to stop serving shark fin soup at all his restaurants.
You can sign up here.
You need to go and see this babaric action to the World’s deminishing SHARK population.
“Shark fin soup is contentious as the fins are often ‘harvested’ by cutting the fins off live sharks that are then thrown back into the sea to bleed to death, unable to swim”.
Millions of SHARKs are being chopped-up just to feed the far Eastern maket with “soup”.
Soon there will be no more SHARKS, for me and my grandchildren to see, and the whole ecosystem will collapse as a result.
Ken Sullivan.
stop serving endangered species