UPDATE: She’s Hooked!
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
London shoppers were, uh… lucky enough see Alice Newstead suspended from shark hooks for 15 minutes in the window of Lush Cosmetics on Regent Street, London today.
The stunt was part of the company’s campaign to end shark finning, and is supported by wildlife conservation charity Sea Shepherds.
The company is also asking consumers to boycott restaurants that serve shark fin soup and not to use shark cartilage supplements, which are thought to improve bone health.
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AWESOME
It’s Sea Shepherd not Sea Shepherds, silly.
Ugh! Is that real?
That’s stupid. I LOVE shark’s fin soup and I consider it a new form of cultural imperialism that these campaigners are butting their noses into my culinary preferences. I wish to see Hindus picketing English farms against beef consumption. Don’t go on about cruelty too, because it’s simply untrue that fishermen cut off the fins and throw the sharks back into the water.
It’s “simply untrue”? Really? Then all of the video, pictures, and personal experiences of people having been on those fishing trips and having seen & done it themselves are falsifications & special effects, I suppose.
Angcore- I think it’s more about the fact that the shark population is being so depleted and it’s starting to affect other oceanic species. If sharks go extinct, which many are on the brink, the entire ecosystem will be at risk. And I afree with Jennifer. Perhaps some fishermen do the humane thing, but it is still a problem that needs attention.
I think ‘Angcore’ needs to look up the definition of cultural imperialism. Thank you for disproving the theory that eating endangered creatures enhances mental faculties.
Angcore’s been schooled!!!!
Brilliant, nothing like a bit of a reality check to shock consumers into a bit of smart shopping!
luckily
it is just 15 minutes
I could care but no. Sharks scare the crap out of me. I still fear swimming in the ocean.
Strange she looks more like a mermaid….Boycott restaurants that serve mermaid fin soup!
If we wipe out the sharks we will soon follow!
Save the sharks!
“A creative way to get a point across” states
Kevin McGrinder