Help BAN Shark Cartilage from being sold in stores!

  • by: Blair N.
  • recipient: Anyone who cares about sharks and the ocean:
Shark cartilage has NOT been scientifically proven as a cancer cure and yet is being sold as one! There are around 450 species of sharks. Twenty percent are threatened with extinction according to the 2006 Red List of Threatened Species! If these keystone species were to become extinct, the underwater ecosystem would be drastically affected and our oxygen supply would also decrease.  This is a waste of an already endangered animal.  Please help ban the sale of their cartilage!  If we decrease the demand for it, then hopefully the finning will also decline.
We the undersigned are concerned,

    It has been brought to our attention that your company facilitates the sale of shark cartilage as a cancer cure.  Shark cartilage has never been scientifically proven as one.

    Shark populations around the globe can not be sustained because these animals are slow-to-reproduce.  Three shark species are listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).  Twenty percent are threatened with extinction according to the 2006 Red List of Threatened Species !

    This exploitation for their cartilage only aides in the worldwide slaughter of an estimated 23-73 million sharks every year. Your store is contributing directly to the global decline of sharks by selling their cartilage as a fraudulent cancer cure.

    We implore you to make your company responsible for the products it sells, see reason, and take shark cartilage off your shelves.

 
Please join the efforts of the people and companies mentioned below and help stop the abuse of the oceans.

 - Both Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways have stopped serving shark fin soup.

- The Vice-President of Taiwan has vowed to stop serving shark fin soup at official banquets.

- Disneyland Hong Kong announced that it was cancelling plans to serve shark's fin soup.

- Malaysian Environment Minister, Datuk Karim Bujang, urges to ban shark fin soup from being served at government functions.

 

Thank You for taking the time to read this letter

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