More Good News for Sharks
Posted on April 28th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
Mostly.
I want to give credit where credit is due: The good people at GluttNY, whom I’d criticized for promoting a “eat it before it eats you” meal featuring shark, have changed their menu in response to my correspondence with them.
They’re now featuring stingray. (They don’t “eat you,” of course, but so far as I know, they’re not endangered.)
I think you can’t ask anything more of folks who’ve made a mistake than that they quickly address it, and GluttNY has done that. So if you happen to be in Brooklyn this Sunday, check out their event. I can’t make it—out of town this weekend—but I’d go if I weren’t.
Here’s the not-so-good news: At least 55 restaurants in Manhattan have shark fin soup on the menu. Don’t go to them. Or better yet, go to them, sit down, tell them that you’re opposed to shark fin soup, and leave.
Here’s the list of 55, by the way.
The blog Gothamist has been great on this issue and provides this link to the Humane Society’s webpage, which offers ways to fight shark finning.
7 Responses
4/28/2011 5:34 pm
How about a word for Cod?
There’s no cod in Cape Cod… Fished to extinction,
I would kill for a codfish cake….
4/29/2011 6:38 am
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/29/school-students-ed-education/
What is unprecedented in this case is that Mark Warren was reviewed twice, and twice voted favorably by the faculty. Sixteen senior faculty voted to tenure him.
Four voted against.
The Dean lied to Drew.
Told her the vote was divided.
The Dean then asked the faculty to cast their vote in writing. Totally unprecedented.
Sixteen favorable letters she received.
Mark Warren was in fact tenured three times by the senior faculty.
He was only turned down by the Dean.
4/29/2011 5:41 pm
will professor Warren sue Harvard?
http://www.uky.edu/Provost/APFA/Department_Chairs/Rest_of_story.pdf
4/29/2011 5:50 pm
Clearly students love professor Warren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh_9ToJNU
makes one wonder just how powerful youtube and tweeter will be in this case?
4/30/2011 8:30 pm
Clearly you last three commenters are on the wrong page. Typical Harvardites.
5/2/2024 9:17 am
Bin Laden burial at sea-remind me, are there any scavenger sharks?
5/2/2024 9:58 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42855474/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/