8 Foods The USA Bans But Other Nations Don't | #food

4. Shark fins without accompanying complete shark carcass. Banned nationally, and shark fin possession is banned in five US states.

These bans are part of an effort to end the hideous practice of slicing the fins off of live sharks and leaving behind the rest of the animal, which kills tens of millions of sharks annually. Not all bans are just about, you know, humans. Although that loss of huge components of the marine food web will undoubtedly come back to bite us in the … well, everywhere.

I was in China Town in NYC and i thought i saw shark fin soup on their menu. I haven't really tried shark fin. Is there like benefits on eating it?