Fake shark Meat
- One solution to shark finning is to use fake shark meat for shark fin soup. Using fake shark meat (which can be made out of gelatin or soy) would make it so the classic tradition of eating shark fin soup could continue without actually harming sharks. Since shark fin is almost completely cartilage it has very little taste on it’s own and usually has to be prepared with a lot of other ingredients. Shark meat substitution is already used in some restaurants due to the price of real shark meat and since a shark’s fin hardly has any flavor anyway, why harm sharks to get them? It is understandable that eating shark fin soup is a tradition for some cultures and considered to be a delicacy but using fake shark meat is a sensible solution.