Really?

Today's news: "HKU bans shark fin dishes", in the hope of not only encouraging its students, staff and alumni to eschew shark fin dishes at all times, but also to give a lead which others in Hong Kong will follow.

So this is what I missed out on not having gone to college in Hong Kong. The closest thing to a delicacy served on any University of Toronto campus was the occasional pizza slice that didn't taste day-old.

According to various reports, shark hunters kill an estimated 100 million sharks a year, many just for their fins.

Cornish, director of conservation with the Worldwide Fund for Nature in Hong Kong, coincidently a former HKU professor, said, "Our primary issue is not with this business of finning. It's a nasty thing to do, but we would be more concerned that it's a waste of edible meat."

Wow.