Shark finning is a practice where a shark is caught, its fins are cut off, and it is dumped back into the water. Each year tens of millions of sharks starve to death, are slowly eaten by other fish, or drown because most sharks need to keep moving to force water through their gills for oxygen. In 2012 the law was challenged in the courts in The United States District Court case "Chinatown Neighborhood Association v. Edmund Brown. The Plaintiffs in the case claimed the law discriminated against Asian Americans and was directed at suppressing the practices and traditions of Californians of Chinese national origin. They asserted that shark fin soup is a key traditional dish at many...
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