{"id":31855,"date":"2019-02-05T05:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31855"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:24","slug":"the-toxic-delicacy-causing-ecosystem-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31855","title":{"rendered":"The toxic delicacy causing ecosystem chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Adeline Chan&#8217;s nose crinkled at the market&#8217;s pungent, briny smell.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Chan and her mother were once regulars at Hong Kong&#8217;s Dried Seafood Market, in Sheung Wan, where endless stalls display plastic bins stuffed with various forms of dried shark fin.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t need shark fins for ourselves, but sharks need their fins,&#8221; said Chan, now a vegan. &#8220;I stopped consuming shark fin soup four years ago after learning what sharks had to go through before a bowl of shark fin soup is served.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Adeline Chan&#8217;s nose crinkled at the market&#8217;s pungent, briny smell.Chan and her mother were once regulars at Hong Kong&#8217;s Dried Seafood Market, in Sheung Wan, where endless stalls display plastic bins stuffed with various forms of dried shark fin.&#8221;We don&#8217;t need shark fins for ourselves, but sharks need their fins,&#8221; said Chan, now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}