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Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images Performance artist Alice Newstead was suspended by fish hooks at a local arts center in Hong Kong on Tuesday., illustrating how sharks are caught on long lines to be killed for their fins and calling for people to stop eating shark-fin soup.

Asia in Pictures: June 15 2011

Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images Performance artist Alice Newstead was suspended by fish hooks at a local arts center in Hong Kong on Tuesday., illustrating how sharks are caught on long lines to be killed for their fins and calling for people to stop eating shark-fin soup.

Asia in Pictures: June 15 2011

-Steve Ells This has been a year when the attention of the food world has been drawn to indie abattoirs and hydrocolloid-obsessed Spaniards, to tomato-farm slavery and shark-fin pirates, to foie gras trucks and $900 meals where you can't tell the entrees from the plates, to mad chefs wielding liquid-nitrogen canisters and gentler souls instructing you on how to cook and eat your Christmas tree.

The Fast Food Revolutionary Jonathan Gold 2011

Once considered an exotic delicacy, shark-fin soup consumption has soared over the past decade.

Matt Rand: Turning the Tide to Protect the World's Sharks Matt Rand 2011

Business & Finance *** The Shangri-La Hotel chain is banning shark-fin soup from all of its hotels, underscoring efforts to stop the hunting and trading of the endangered fish.

What's News— 2012

Yet Greenpeace maintains programs and offices in China, where it has launched an aggressive (by Chinese standards) campaign to persuade consumers not to buy furniture made of rain-forest wood, not to eat shark-fin soup, not to waste energy — and not to buy products from Chinese or foreign companies that undermine these goals.

China’s Silver Lining 2008

The service included a delicate shark-fin soup, baby squid cooked in their own ink, pickled anchovies, grilled mackerel in a sauce of rice wine and Spanish capers, fresh trout from the Carmel River, boned and cleaned from the spine and cunningly posed with their tails protruding from their mouths, and served on a bed of crisp cabbage flavored with toasted sesame seeds.

In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

The service included a delicate shark-fin soup, baby squid cooked in their own ink, pickled anchovies, grilled mackerel in a sauce of rice wine and Spanish capers, fresh trout from the Carmel River, boned and cleaned from the spine and cunningly posed with their tails protruding from their mouths, and served on a bed of crisp cabbage flavored with toasted sesame seeds.

In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

Responding to the new consciousness, local restaurants are starting to offer shark-fin free menus.

Shark Fin Soup: Hong Kong Grassroots Movement Boycotts Controversial Dish 2010

Yet Greenpeace maintains programs and offices in China, where it has launched an aggressive (by Chinese standards) campaign to persuade consumers not to buy furniture made of rain-forest wood, not to eat shark-fin soup, not to waste energy — and not to buy products from Chinese or foreign companies that undermine these goals.

China’s Silver Lining 2008