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And my narcissistic self.
And I need to plead for forgiveness because, dear Mother Earth, I have sinned.
Let me back up a bit.
I was asked to join the department lunch on Friday (yes, technically, I'm not an employee anymore but hey, I'm well-loved. Hah) to reward ourselves, sort-of, for the good P&L (Profit and Loss, for those who knew nothing about accounting) of the previous financial year. It was a pretty prestigious Chinese restaurant, Man Fu Yuan, at the InterContinental.
And as Chinese restaurants go, if it's a supposedly good and definitely expensive meal, shark's fin soup is almost mandatory.
I felt so guilty having to eat it.
It was my favourite dish since I was young, back when I was terribly spoilt by my grandparents and my grandmother will order one serving for me on almost every trip to any good Chinese restaurant.
When I began to understand what it meant for an animal species to be endangered, I told people around me that I would never ever willingly eat anymore shark's fin soup.
It was also around that time when the cruelty of finning was brought to the attention of the Chinese in Singapore. There were television shows that interviewed the public's opinion on the issue, clips that showed what finning was like, and ultimately the fate of the finned sharks. It was sad and downright revolting, to cut out the single part that was needed and throw the shark back into the water to leave it for dead.
It further solidified my stand on not wanting to eat that dish.
Sure, there would be people who argue that they are just food, like beef and chicken. But hey, those livestock can be reared in huge numbers. And those meat, like beef, has its own taste.
Shark's fin is tasteless.
Imagine if a group of sentient beings decides that human tongues are a delicacy and goes around cutting everyone's tongue out, leaving them to bleed to death, just so the tasteless organ can be cooked in a big pot of soup with dozens other random foodstuff for many hours so that the piece of meat can absorb enough flavour to be eaten.
How pointless is that? And, the soup is practically good enough on it's own with (or without) other usual everyday meat, without the shark's fin.
Back to Friday's lunch.
I had no choice to eat the dish because it will be just SO awkward when the meal has already been paid for and suddenly I announce that I am not eating one strand of shark's fin because I feel the need to protect this other animal that shares our living space, that it's inhuman to encourage the need for this food and then reminding everyone at the table about the sadistic nature of how it is obtained.
Which is why I could only complain to my mother about needing to eating the dish that I've long decided never to have again.
Finning should be illegal.
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