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he’s right – and i would even stretch it to include most fish – especially sushi.
People around me eat it with such interest and i just don’t get why you can’t eat something else that tastes better and doesn’t rape your mouth with alien texture…
I don’t get what kind of a crusade he’s on here. I mean he says himself that if it tasted good then he’d be all for it. But taste is to some degree culturally subjective, as is the definition and perception of cruelty or whatever else.
Kevin said:I don’t get what kind of a crusade he’s on here. I mean he says himself that if it tasted good then he’d be all for it.
You twist his words quite a bit here. He said if it tasted good he’d understand it. Which is different than being for it. He just seems extra appalled that the only real appeal of shark fin soup is that it’s a cultural status symbol.
The issue here, as shown in some of the other clips from this show, is that shark fin soup is responsible for over fishing several species of shark to near extinction. On top of that, the way in which the meat is butchered, like killing a rhino for the horn and leaving it to die, also falls in line which some other battles he’s been fighting, namely for sustainable, ethical meat handling. Dudes raises and slaughters his own goats and pigs and all his restaurants are locally sourced farm-to-fork type places, so he’s not just bullshitting.
More so, I just found the video interesting, host aside, because it’s a world I had no idea even existed.
Admittedly I was watching it at work so I had the sound down fairly low. I’ll watch it again. I mean I like him a lot, don’t get me wrong. I’ll watch any show with him on it (I can’t actually speak to his prowess as a chef since I haven’t eaten at any of his restaurants). I find him actually much more believable as an easily riled curmudgeon than Anthony Bourdain. I just was trying to glean the overall point of it while watching it at work, which admittedly is difficult to do. I’ll have to re-watch it.