{"id":879032,"date":"2022-11-11T06:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=264558"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:56:35","slug":"killing-sharks-for-fin-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/11\/killing-sharks-for-fin-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Sharks for Fin Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That\u2019s 180 sharks per minute; it\u2019s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly for shark fin soup. In fact, the shark-fin trade is responsible for 75% of sharks killed each year even though more than 50 countries  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/killing-sharks-for-fin-soup\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/killing-sharks-for-fin-soup\/\">Killing Sharks for Fin Soup<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/killing-sharks-for-fin-soup\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That\u2019s 180 sharks per minute; it\u2019s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly for shark fin soup. In fact, the shark-fin trade is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879033,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879032\/revisions\/879033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}