Could Toronto shark fin ban push Ottawa to pass a national law?

Cutting the fins off of sharks and dumping them back into the water to die a slow agonizing death is barbaric and revolting. This UGLY, BRUTAL and INHUMANE practice that is done ONLY for "ego and luck" should be banned world-wide. How would these "humans" like their arms and legs cut off and be dumped in the water, unable to move, protect themselves, or survive? How "LUCKY" would they be then?

Next move should be to protect the dogs .... it is still a delicacy in Asia....

Council stop standing on the fence, ban this brutal primitive,elusionist superstious custom. It is unspeakable slow death to a helpless shark left with no fins and sink lifeless to the bottom of the ocean and fin soups are served to the wealthy for good luck.Stop the KILLING OF INNOCENT SHARKS.

KUDOS to Mississauga and ALL other jurisdictions that ban this barbaric, cruel and unnecessary "cultural habit". It is time for humanity to grow UP.

Bravo. Maybe the Chinese and Japanese will finally start to get it - you can't eat endangered animals into extinction.

shark fin soup,black bear paw soup,bear gall bladders,tiger penuses they sure love to eat other nations' animals mini body parts.how would they like it if i chowed down on panda teeth and leave the rest of the animal next to the great wall rotting?

wHATS NEXT dog tail soup,... stop the cruelty

Inhumane behavior to one of gods creatures

Its time that we do something about our ocean life,beside killing every last fish in the sea!!!!
Humans are just plain greedy,we need to be controlled.

look at what chinese regime do to their people ! let alone about the sharks !
ban ban ban.... this move is the 1st step to straight up chinese minds .

I strongly recommend everyone to watch a film created by a Canadian called "Sharkwater." In which he reveals the ugly truth about the shark fin industry.. it actually made me cry.

This would be one law that makes sense - especially given the sharp decline in global shark populations. Time both china & japan were held accountable for their eco crimes.

if you eat a fin from a poor shark, you are an A HOLE !

Sharks are and should always be the keepers of the Oceans,with any luck they will be protected and around a long time after the fin eaters are gone...

People are actually killing closer to 100 million sharks per year, just for the fins. They frequently chop off the fins and then dump the still-alive shark to die in the ocean. They don't even use the rest of the shark.

This is a great move by Toronto (and Mississauga and California), and hopefully the rest of North America follows. We need education about sharks to show that they aren't the maneaters that films portray; they're an endangered species.

@vinmast....huh??? i realize your intentions are good but we need meat. our brains evolved because of meat. you owe your thought and imagination to meat, say" thanks meat!" do you think there was a tofu or soya counter around every other bush or rock for our ancestors? humans ate what was readily available. i dont think eskimoes would get very far eating snow do you?

Good, they should have ban it long time ago!!!!!!

hope law passes. this is such a stupid dish eaten as a status symbol. i hear it has no flavour, jello like testure and all you taste is the soup stock. such a waste. people who eat this should be ashamed

Humans need to respect every other species on this planet.We are all in this together we are all connected,the more we kill and destroy other species and our planet the more will be our children's suffering.We make extinct one species another will follow and so on and so on.At this moment in time we do not get it,but our children surely will.Humans are not immune to extinction.

Time to stop this primitive custom. There are many Asian people who also see this is cruel and stupid.
If the Chinese men want to have a good marriage, they should not have countless mistresses, as they do.