There are people who say that the practice of finning sharks doesn’t exist, that tales of senseless cruelty and environmental desecration are bull-hooey fabricated by enviro-whackos and Western imperialists hell-bent on destroying Chinese culture.
![shark fins drying on fishing boat, Vava’u, Tonga](https://www.tonywublog.com/assets/images/2013/09/shark-fins-drying-boat-vavau-tonga-tony-wu.jpg)
Tell that to the sharks formerly attached to these fins.