Stop Shark fins on Hilton and Conrad Menu
- by: Silvia Kohring
- recipient: The Management of the Hilton Group
The reputation of the Hilton hotels for quality and excellence is a reference for hotels worldwide. So it was with consternation that I discovered that the Liu Restaurant serves 10 dishes containing sharkfin.
100 million are caught every year, 73 million for their fins. At this rate of destruction their populations cannot sustain the growing appetite for sharkfin soup. The cruel practise of shark-finning is where the fins are sliced off live sharks who are thrown back into the sea to die a long and agonising death. Sharks, unlike fish, reproduce slowly. They mature late and have few young so at the rate they are being killed and not replaced, their extinction is imminent.
Sharks' role in the oceans is primordial- they prey on the sick and weak individuals thus maintaining healthy populations of fishstocks. Marine ecosystems where sharks have disappeared have already collapsed. In order to continue to serve fish in your restaurant, you will need sharks in the ocean.
As sharks prey on fish living in increasingly polluted oceans, they have accumulated toxic levels of mercury, cadmium and PCBs in their tissues. These are dangerous for human health as they are not removed by cooking- they remain fixed in humans at 60 times the levels considered dangerous.
I appeal to the Conrad Hilton and to your sound judgement to remove sharkfin from your menu. There are many sustainable and less toxic dishes that would delight your clientele. The ocean ecosystems, the survival of a species and the health of your clients rely on you making the right decision and refusing to serve sharkfin.
We the undersigned appeal to the Conrad Hilton and to your sound judgement to remove sharkfin from your menu. There are many sustainable and less toxic dishes that would delight your clientele. The ocean ecosystems, the survival of a species and the health of your clients rely on you making the right decision and refusing to serve sharkfin.
The reputation of the Hilton hotels for quality and excellence is a reference for hotels worldwide. So it was with consternation that I discovered that the Liu Restaurant serves 10 dishes containing sharkfin.
100 million are caught every year, 73 million for their fins. At this rate of destruction their populations cannot sustain the growing appetite for sharkfin soup. The cruel practise of shark-finning is where the fins are sliced off live sharks who are thrown back into the sea to die a long and agonising death. Sharks, unlike fish, reproduce slowly. They mature late and have few young so at the rate they are being killed and not replaced, their extinction is imminent.
Sharks' role in the oceans is primordial- they prey on the sick and weak individuals thus maintaining healthy populations of fishstocks. Marine ecosystems where sharks have disappeared have already collapsed. In order to continue to serve fish in your restaurant, you will need sharks in the ocean.
As sharks prey on fish living in increasingly polluted oceans, they have accumulated toxic levels of mercury, cadmium and PCBs in their tissues. These are dangerous for human health as they are not removed by cooking- they remain fixed in humans at 60 times the levels considered dangerous.
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