I've been attending a lot of wedding dinners recently, the Chinese kind. It's annoying because it means I've to put in effort to dress a little nicer and socialise with people who don't get my interests and think it's pfft. That pretty much means that most of the time I've to don a fake smile and pretend that I'm okay with them putting me down...
But that's still bearable. Shark fin soup, however, is NOT.
And they don't get why I refuse to drink up and accuse me of wastage. WTF indeed.
So for my wedding (if I'll ever have one), I will not serve shark fin soup, and in place of that, when the (vegetarian?) soup is being served, I will air a short video on shark finning which will hopefully be as graphic as possible so that everyone, young and old, will understand why we have to protect sharks and stop the cruel practice of finning. When the demand stops, the finning will stop too.
And if the young ones can be made to emphatise with the sharks, they will be agents of change because they have the uncanny ability of embarassing adults who do bad things. ;)
I can't say I blame you for not wanting to have that soup. Remember, a wedding is your day and when you do get married, you can celebrate it anyway you like. :)
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I don't get it either. Not just shark fin's soup, some people can't do simple things like not littering and simply throw things around in front of me! I really don't know how they're gonna implement the separating different rubbish in homes this year.
ReplyDeleteHee hee, we already warned oppa Bryan, no shark's fin soup at his wedding dinner. Sabah's pretty good though with the No Shark's fin soup campaign.
Good for you, I myself am so fed up with it as well, that I created a website and FB page for the cause, feel free to check it out.
ReplyDeletewww.congratulafins.org
www.facebook.com/Congratulafins
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