To the editor:
Re: "Shark fin ban dictatorial and autocratic," Letters, Oct. 31.
Stephen Chiu should weep not for democracy nor feel bad about the "inhumane treatment of the sharks in the process of obtaining their fins." The ban of shark fin soup is merely a small step in trying to save certain species of one of the earliest complex life forms on this planet from total extinction.
Sure, we have a democratic right to eat whatever we want no matter how gross or gelatinous it is, but a simple respect for wrong and right would draw line at people and endangered life. What's next on the list of delicacies to defend - panda balls?
Cal Koat, Vancouver
