IMO..if you can include some reference(Facts) in your letter to support the campaign would be good.

 

Syamdive..lets meet up soon so we can see how to go about it.

 

Just burn those restaurants down. And the seafood distributors also.

hi everyone

despite our awareness of not eating shark fin soup, i must say that the level of awareness in the general malaysian public is lacking. this can be clearly seen when most top chinese restaurant in malaysia still serves shark fin soup which means the public especially the rich & educated  (since they probably can afford to eat there) have no problem eating shark fin soup. my plan is to make this habit a taboo in malaysia and the restaurants that serves them be boycotted until they remove shark fin soup from the menu.

when i started some research i was surprised to find out that all chinese restaurants in top hotels in KL serves shark's fin soup. so perhaps we can target our campaign there because the hotels are visited by foreign tourist that has higher awareness in shark conservation issues.

here's a list of 10 chinese restaurants in KL hotels that serves shark's fin soup

No   Name
1   Lai Poo Heen, Mandarin Oriental
2   Shang Palace, Shangri-La KL
3   Golden Phoenix, Hotel Equatorial
4   Toh Lee Chinese Restaurant, Nikko Hotel
5   Dynasty Chinese Restaurant, Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel
6   Li Yen, The Ritz Carlton
7   Shanghai Restaurant, JW Marriott Hotel
8   The Museum, The Legend Hotel
9   Spring Garden, The Crown Princess Hotel
10   Si Chuan Dou Hua, Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur


My proposed plan is first for MUW to send an official request letter to the hotel management to remove shark's fin soup from the menu. This action can be publicized with a press release in other diving communities website & publication such as wetpixel.com, digideep.com, underwaterphotography.com, scubadiver australasia etc. In the press release we'll list the name & email address of the hotels and ask other divers to write a letter to the hotel (with our template) to appeal as well.

What do you guys think? Moderators, do you think its a good idea?
Any other ideas? Should we do this? (coz no one else will...)



syamdive




 

r u sure all of them is REAL sharkfin? it may say sharkfin at the menu, the waitress may say sharkfin.. but did u do a check and ask the chef or their suppliers?

i spotted 3 restaurants there that is confirmed using substitutes. but it taste just like the real thing. others i do not know.

please do research before posting such comments as it will tarnish those restaurant's name.

err.. are you now saying selling and purchasing sharks at wetmarket isnt right as well?

good grief.. i hate amateur yet trying to talk big activist that don't bother to do research and relies on CNN/FACEBOOK for their information. did you know 45% of the things they show on CNN is NOT TRUE? especially when it comes to overseas news? and facebook is even worse.. samore going around shooting people at a personal level.. seriously bro.. you need to control your EQ before you get a heartattack..  

sigh.. do i really have to spell everything out to you? or even spoon feed you? here's some REAL facts..
how do they catch sharks? true, some goes underwater with a net and catches sharks (bamboo, nurse sharks), and i saw sharks stranded in the net (i guess the one that caught the shark dropped the net or something, which i set loose) but those are for the illegal purpose of putting them in fish tanks, not our stomach.

the sharks were caught in trawl nets dude.. trawl nets have no eyes. they just catches whatever swim past them.

SOOO.. if you want to stop sharks fin soup, stop the usage of trawl net, which kills mola-molas, whales, dolphines, turtles, sea snakes..

it is good you are energetic and have concern on the environment, but do the right thing.. put your energy into things that will actually work. they have already came out with substitute shark fin.. now we just have to stop catching sharks, which most of the time is accidental. you dont see sharks being sold DAILY at the wet market.. occasionally yes, not everyday like kembung, tilapia etc..

if you cant join the REAL activist, at least support them like what i do. i donate to green peace and signs their petitions. their causes are REAL and they really do research before they go all out. those are activist which deserves RESPECT and not others that go around making noise.



on a personal level, what does being a diver or not have to do with all this? are divers that love spear fishing not divers? are divers that catch clown fish etc.. to be put in tanks not divers? are divers that love harassing fishes underwater, touching them, scaring the shit out of them not divers?