Shark Attack Survivors Saving Sharks

Posted on July 16, 2009 by bansharkfinning
Mike Coots surfing after attack 12 years earlier, courtesy of Mike Coots

Mike Coots surfing after attack 12 years earlier, courtesy of Mike Coots

Now that title is something to behold is it not? Shark victims (not just one but quite a few) are standing up to save sharks in Washington D.C. The very people who have the right to fear the impeccable creatures that Discovery Channel portrays as being bloodthirsty eating machines. But in fact they are doing the opposite, they are trying to save the world’s top predator. They are helping Congress to realize that the sharks in our oceans don’t have a fighting chance unless we stand up for them.

One of the survivors: “It’s like a massacre,” Coots said by phone from his Washington, D.C., hotel room. “To kill off that many animals that quickly, it’s completely devastating to the ecosystem.”

Read more of what Mike Coots has to say here

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Sharks don’t get cancer? FAT CHANCE!!

Posted on July 8, 2009 by bansharkfinning
Shark Fin Cartilage Powder

Shark Fin Cartilage Powder

“… more than 40 tumors had been documented in sharks, skates and rays,” reported by researchers at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington D.C.

A study done by the George Washington Medical School found that shark fin does not in fact help keep  from getting cancer or other sicknesses. Shark fins have in fact been used for thousands of years in Africa and Asia. The shocker? The use of shark fin remedies has moved to the West with increasing popularity. Another shocker? “Clinical studies on cancer patients, including a 1998 study by the Independent Cancer Treatment Research Foundation in Illinois, haven’t shown cartilage powders to have any anti-cancer benefits.”

What else?” Cancer Research UK, an independent cancer-research organization, states “We don’t recommend alternative therapies such as shark cartilage, as there is no scientific or medical evidence to back up the claims made for these ‘treatments’.”

Moral of this story: Shark fins are tasteless and provide no medical benefit at all! They’re only beneficial when attached to the Sharks they come from.

Read this article: Understand how useless Shark Fin meds are here!

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