Ask GrubHub to Take Shark Fins Off the Menu!
This is your chance to help get shark fins off the menu.
Every day about 172,000 people order food from GrubHub and its subsidiaries Seamless, All Menus, and Menu Pages, wildly popular online food ordering services — but they have a little secret: Shark fin soup is on the menu.
Each year, up to 73 million sharks are killed by the barbaric practice of shark finning. A shark caught for finning has its fins sliced off, often while the shark is still alive, and then the animal is tossed overboard to bleed and die.
While shark finning is banned in United States waters, the trade of shark fin products is still legal in many states. GrubHub needs to join Disney, Amazon and other socially responsible companies that have banned shark fin products.
Sign our petition to tell GrubHub to get shark fin off the menu and drop restaurants that offer shark fin products now — before the ocean's most iconic predators disappear.
Dear GrubHub,
Americans are hungry for sustainable seafood. We truly enjoy many of the menu items your vendors provide, but we don't want to see shark fins on the menu anymore. We are concerned that several restaurants listed on GrubHub Inc. subsidiary websites throughout the United States offer shark fin soup or other shark fin products on their menus.
It is no longer a responsible corporate practice to sell shark fin products. Shark finning is a brutal practice where fishermen slice the fins off a shark, often while the shark is still alive, and then toss the bloodied and dying shark overboard to die. Scientists estimate that up to 73 million sharks are killed each year to support the shark fin trade, with those fins ending up in shark fin soup and on your menus. And many species that are already threatened or endangered are not safe from this fate, since it is impossible to distinguish between fins of different species once they have been cut off.
In addition to the negative impacts of shark finning on dwindling shark populations and marine ecosystems around the world, the possession and sale of shark fins has been banned in nine states and three U.S. territories.
[Your comments here]
We urge you to join the many corporations who are doing the right thing. Take a stand for sharks by removing restaurants still offering shark fin products from your company websites. Let's get shark fins off the menu!
Thank you,
[Your name here]
