Shark fin soup debate

Maybe you should try the salt and pepper crab (foreground) at R&G Lounge instead.

There's an article in the New York Times today about a proposed ban on shark fins in California.  Two observations.

1. There's no question that something ought to be done about the cruel harvesting practice, but why isn't there any attention paid to America's (and California's) industrial agriculture system where hundreds of millions of cow, pigs, and chickens are raised in horrific conditions, fed unmentionables, injected with who-knows-whats, and slaughtered?

2. And check out this quote from the article.  It's not hard to figure out on which side of the debate this reporter stands:
"...shark finning, a brutal, bloody practice of the global trade in which the fins are typically hacked off a live shark, leaving it to die slowly as it sinks to the bottom of the sea."  (Emphasis added.)