Shark, Eat Or Not Eat?
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Article by hi joiney
When you take the higher price for shark fins to nourishing the first time, bought the damage may only be on their own. Shark fin is one of the seafood Bazhen, it is a shark's chest, abdomen, tail fins, etc. shredded dried shark's fin made, not only the well-known delicacies, but also very high therapeutic value.
Traditional view that eating shark fin could Qi, Qing God, Qu Tan, diuretic, appetizer, soothing, beauty; to make up the five internal organs, long waist power, solution stagnation, live blood, Run texture. Chinese eat shark fin's history, dating back to the Ming Dynasty, in Li's book was mentioned: "ancient name of sharks sharks............ Southern Man winged fuselage treasure of......."
Former local officials in coastal shark fin on the commonly used as a tribute to tribute, the shark is listed as imperial. Many shark species, with green wings, clear wings, wing down and the wing balls.
Which the wings cake is better the highest nutritional value. For centuries, shark fin to the table by the medicinal food, chefs, gourmets can be described as lot of the credit. Shark fin dishes can do the "original braised shark's fin," "Crab shark fin," "dry shark fin," "Red Grilled shark's fin," "milk Grilled shark Babel," "casserole shark fin" and so on. After pick, dip, rise, boiling, bleaching, steaming, simmering, finishing more than 10 working procedure process, and then use the old hen, ham, pork ribs, dried longan meat soup made of boiled, raw materials, Grilled prime shark fin to go with rice, etc. Every dish is so full of flavor and tender crisp slider, all rich and refreshing taste. Southeast Asia are very like eating shark fin soup, shark fin and delicious global preferences people have as many as 300 million. Some people like eating shark fin to go with rice, said extravagances were indeed mean a person making a fortune.
Shark fin production process includes three steps: 1, cut: shark ashore, it will cut off the fins and the shark classified by size; 2, to the sand: the fins into the boi! ling wat er for 15 to 30 minutes, until softened fin After the sand scraped the skin. After blowing sand, soaked with cold water for 10 hours to remove the body of ammonia fins factors; 3, drying: the shark's fin into the oven, bake about half a day, and then drying to eighty percent, after Naqu sales. Fin often supplied to restaurants around the world, usually the price per pound of shark fin was 80 U.S. dollars.
Price per bowl of shark fin soup may therefore be as high as 150 U.S. dollars. As the fin is far higher than the value of shark meat, so fishermen often cut off the shark fins lost after the re-put back into the ocean sharks, when the sharks often bleed to death. Every year, about 100 million sharks are killed by such cruel means, so do so many people condemn the behavior of shark fin soup is a "throwaway." "Wildlife Assistance" organization, said the marine food chain, sharks are an important part, and are particularly vulnerable to overfishing damage.
Their number reduced, would threaten the balance of marine ecosystems and affect the survival of some important economic fish. Wide fin origin, almost any ocean shark has grown, but mainly from India, Yemen, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and Kenya. Hong Kong is the world's shark fin trading center, Hong Kong, the world's shark fin consumption accounts for 10% of the mainland of China is a major importer of 3,000 tons per year of ice wells dried shark fins and shark fin. Shark fin trade involves 178 countries and regions worldwide, but only a few countries shark fisheries control. Although the consumption of shark fin is mainly Asians??
To mainly Chinese and Japanese, but this trade is related to the interests of countries around the world. Hong Kong alone, the shark fin business with the restaurant industry, tourism, foreign trade is closely related. Benefit from non-Hong Kong businessmen only, but also the world's fish business. China is not a shark's main producing areas, according to the Ministry of Agriculture Office of aquatic wildlife official! s, there are no fishing vessels to the distant sea fishing for shark, but the Chinese and ethnic Chinese are the main consumption of shark populations.
Research shows that consumption of shark fins in China is growing, the Chinese mainland will inevitably become the world's largest consumer market in shark fins. Potential shark fin consumption more than all other regions combined. Shark fin is really very nutritious it? An environmental investigation team of the study showed that shark fin soup contains high concentrations of toxic substances??
Mercury, and mercury harmful to human higher nervous system. Detection of the two shark fins sold in Bangkok randomized toxicity test showed that high-end food delicious shark's fin that mercury pollution by 70%, containing mercury can be absorbed into the body beyond the normal ratio of 42 times the permissible levels. Australia and New Zealand has also recently warned people, especially those pregnant women are advised not to eat shark meat. Because of excessive mercury intake of pregnant women and their children will have a very great harm, in particular, will affect their brain and nerve cell growth. Most of the mercury content of shark fin in the water from pollution, and sharks in the food chain at the highest position, the mercury content of the body so they can always be cumulative. In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, increasing demand for shark fins, shark fin and natural resources are limited, so the growing popularity of shark fin in the simulation of food.
Recently, a Japanese food company with fish and seaweed extracted from the material as the main raw material, together with flour, egg white, food coloring and other essential nutrients the body made of a bionic shark food. It is a colorless, transparent like a long 20 mm? 200 mm, diameter 0.2 mm? 0.8 mm of the filament, in 3% salt water boil 1 hour, its shape and texture is very similar to natural shark fins. Although less than the value of its pharmacological genuine shark fin, but t! heir bas ic nutritional value is better than a natural shark fin, and a pleasant taste, cooking easy, very popular. It seems that for our traditional delicacies?? Shark we should have a comprehensive understanding of the experts warned that: "When you spend a higher price for shark fins to pirated software, the buy back may simply be one's own injuries. "
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