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The odd couple. Mega star Yao Ming who’s now retired and Virgin everything boss Richard Branson have teamed up to help curb Shark Fin hunting. Although there’s action happening in the US, the majority of the shark fin is eaten in China where Yao Ming is campaigning. Can one or two very wealthy persons make change and help the sharks repopulate? The appetites of a billion might be tough to change. (Washington Post – Yao and Branson)
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Jonathan Gold, friend of Giant Robot and writer for the LA Weekly, talks about shark finning, enjoying it, but understanding what’s going on with extinction. It’s an op/ed for the LA Times. “But Chinese culinary culture has proved resilient over the centuries, as able to absorb such foreign ingredients as chiles and squashes as it has been to withstand the absence of sea turtle skirt and bear paw, whose preparation obsessed the earliest Chinese gourmets.” (LA Times – J Gold)
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