{"id":6935,"date":"2012-08-09T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:47","slug":"shark-fin-soup-and-endangered-species-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/08\/09\/shark-fin-soup-and-endangered-species-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Fin Soup and Endangered Species in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharks listed as endangered species are on the menu in U.S. restaurants.\u00a0 DNA testing by Stony Brook University&#8217;s Institute for Ocean Conservation Science in New York verified that many different species of shark end up in <a title=\"Gordon Ramsay Goes Shark (Fin) Hunting On Land\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/09\/13\/gordon-ramsey-goes-shark-fin-hunting-on-land\/\">shark fin soup<\/a>, most threatened or endangered.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers collected samples of shark fin soup from restaurants in fourteen cities across the United States.\u00a0 They found thirty-three different species of shark in the soups, including endangered scalloped hammerhead sharks.\u00a0 More than 70 million sharks are killed annually, largely for their fins, which can fetch up to $100 per kilogram.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\"><!--rpuEmbedStart--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3\">http:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepost-1ab69ad31e54d1990daf60afbdb78d7d-top\" style=\"margin: 0;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rpuThumb\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1klTx\" rel=\"norewrite\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/img.1.rp-api.com\/thumb\/2714866\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"rpuTitle\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1klTx\" rel=\"norewrite\"><strong>Threatened shark species turning up in US restaurants<\/strong><\/a> (via <a class=\"rpuHost\" href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/1klTx\" rel=\"norewrite\">AFP<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rpuSnip\">Threatened shark species are being used to make shark fin soup, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine, in several US cities, according to an unprecedented study based on DNA testing. Thirty-three different species of sharks turned up in samples collected in 14 cities and analyzed at Stony Brook University&#8217;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- put the \"tease\", \"jump\" or \"more\" break here --><!--more--><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr class=\"at-page-break\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepostMain rpuRepost-1ab69ad31e54d1990daf60afbdb78d7d-bottom\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- How to customize this embed: http:\/\/www.repost.us\/article-preview\/#!shash=1ab69ad31e54d1990daf60afbdb78d7d --><br \/>\n<!--rpuEmbedEnd--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharks listed as endangered species are on the menu in U.S. restaurants.  DNA testing by Stony Brook University&#8217;s Institute for Ocean Conservation Science in New York verified that many different species of shark end up in shark fin soup, most threatened or endangered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[2854,1968,1971],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}