You can hear me talking about eating shark’s fin (or not) on the BBC today (or read the piece here).
While I was writing it, I came across a page I tore out of the South China Morning Post in October last year. It includes a letter from Dr Choo-hoo Giam, a member of the animals committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. What is particularly interesting about the letter is that Dr Giam points out the extent to which it is not only the Chinese and their notorious shark’s fin soup that are to blame for the devastation of worldwide shark stocks. The main points Dr Giam makes are as follows: Continue reading…
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Posted by Fuchsia
on July 20, 2009
Banquets,
Chinese food culture /
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According to an academic quoted in the official Chinese English-language newspaper, The China Daily, Chinese officials spend an annual average of about five hundred BILLION yuan (or 73 billion US dollars) of public funds on banquets. ‘Officials are used to sealing deals and making decisions at dinner tables,’ said Professor Li Chengyan of Beijing University. (He was commenting on the news that an official in Hubei Province recently died of a heart attack after drinking excessively at an official dinner, and that another official, in Guangdong, fell into a coma after a separate alcoholic binge.)
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