Interview · moment 27 of 37
Sitting Down with Chinese Shark Traders
from The Great Shark Debate | The Tim Dillon Show #356 · #356
2 min
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Eli describes interviewing shark fin traders in China who defend eating everything out of poverty, leading into a bit about a rickshaw-driving panda-friend boy craving shark fin soup.
- Tim sat down with shark traders in China who'd never been on camera before to understand their perspective.
- Tim's counterpoint: sharks will be extinct in ten years if fishing doesn't stop; they can't repopulate in time.
- Food is a luxury to many people around the world, not a given like it is in the Western world.
- Tim paints a scene of a hungry student in China working hard, driving a rickshaw with a panda friend, coming home to shark fin soup.
- Suggesting someone abandon their culture for McDonald's instead is a problematic ask, Tim argues.
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