Some cool funny fishes images:
had the great pleasure to visit Venice, Italy for the Carnavale in February 2013. Venice is one of my favorite cities in the world - it's old, falling apart, and smells funny, so I can relate to it. While the Carnavale was the main draw, just ambling around aimlessly with no destination in mind is pretty cool - you never know what photo op (or bakery) will be around the next corner!
I took these photographs over a couple of beautiful days at the end of May. The sun shone, the temperatures were pleasant (below 30°) and the humidity low. Ignoring all the urgent items on the "to do" list, I packed up my camera and Octopus card and just wandered. Occasionally I step up on my soap box - and this is one of those rare occasions. As a vegetarian I very rarely comment on anybody's food choices. We are all entitled to our own opinions and whilst, as a vegetarian, I regularly receive advice about my diet ranging from enqiries about how I manage to eat enough iron/protein and "amusing" ones where people claim that carrots have feelings too or that they only eat animals that are vegetarians so by definition they are too (not funny, not clever and certainly not original) I generally keep my mouth shut because it's the best way to get branded a stroppy cow within seconds. However, shark's fin soup is another matter. This week's South China Morning Post Magazine carried an article which began, " "Last week, the United Nations opened an international conference on fish stocks with a dire warning about the world's shark populations in the face of China's growing appetite for shark-fin soup. At the meeting in New York, the UN ambassador for Palau, Stuart Beck, condemned the killing of 73 million sharks a year as ocean mismanagement and called for an international moratorium on finning...." Shark meat is not valued so the only part of the shark used is the fin. Once caught and de-finned they are thrown back into the water, alive, where they die an inevitable and unpleasant death. Sharks' fins themselves are tasteless and have no nutritional value or taste. They also have high concentrations of methyl-mercury. If you are offered shark's fin soup, please refuse it and don't encourage this appalling trade. *steps off soap box* And, if anyone is wondering, vegetarians don't eat fish!