As high-grade "delicacies", foie gras, bird's nest and shark's fin are often used to entertain guests at important banquets. However, the heavy price hidden behind these carefully packaged "delicacies" is hard to swallow. We can't help asking, what's the point of eating these? Human feelings and face?

fatty goose liver-a painful diseased liver

geese and ducks in the wild usually like to search for food and grass, swim and raise their offspring. But in the foie gras farm, they are deprived of everything that nature has given them.

In order to make fat foie gras, workers use metal pipes to force grains, corn and fat weighing two kilograms into the stomachs of ducks and geese several times a day. As a result, Ta's liver swelled to more than 11 times the normal size, so they got sick and couldn't move. Feeding tubes often pierce the throats of Ta people, and many ducks and geese bleed to death. Looking at the carcasses of these forced-fed birds, we can find serious internal bleeding, fungal and bacterial infections, and hepatic encephalopathy (a brain disease caused by liver failure).

Bird's Nest-Silent Blood and Tears

Jin Siyan is a lively bird, with a beautiful song and a love of cleanliness, and often cleans up the feces in its nest. "Bird's nest soup" is made from Jin Siyan's nest. These birds are small and have a lot of trouble. They use their saliva to make complex cup-shaped nests for their chicks.

However, relying on the advantages of the brain, millions of people stole their nests for this suspicious "delicacy". Bird's nest is located on a towering cliff or at the top of a cave. Traditionally, it is collected by workers climbing rickety bamboo ladders. Accidental falls often occur, resulting in injuries and even death.

When the nest was taken away, Jin Siyan had to work hard to rebuild a new nest. In order to meet the demand for bird's nest, workers repeatedly steal nests from the same birds, and sometimes even throw eggs and chicks out of the nests directly. According to a biologist from the National University of Singapore, in some areas, the over-collection of bird's nest has reduced the number of Jin Siyan by 73%.

Shark's fin-cruelty on the tip of the tongue

Sharks are an important link in the marine life chain, and they have a keen sense of smell, so they are called marine hunters. People are afraid of sharks, but they don't know that sharks are actually timid. There are only 31 to 51 shark attacks on people every year in the world, and the probability of being attacked by sharks is even lower than that of being struck by lightning.

But every year, more than 71 million sharks are captured by humans, and some of them have their dorsal fins, pectoral fins and caudal fins cut off alive on the deck and then thrown into the sea. Sharks covered in blood can only sink to the bottom of the sea like stones, endure the sharp pain and high pressure of the wound on the dark seabed, but can't move, and finally gradually suffocate and die quietly, even being attacked by other sharks-such cruel killing is just for a bowl of shark fins on the table.

shark fin contains 92% crude protein, which is difficult to be absorbed by human body, let alone beauty. On the contrary, sharks are rich in the highest concentration of mercury, cadmium and other heavy metals in the ocean, which is extremely harmful to the brain cells of fetuses and children. Eating shark fin as a "tonic" is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

what can we do?

Refuse to buy or eat shark's fin, bird's nest, foie gras and other products, and explain the stories behind these delicacies to family and friends. You are not alone, because more and more people have realized the cruel facts of these "delicacies" and joined the ranks of rejecting shark's fin, bird's nest and foie gras. Many well-known hotels have publicly promised to become "zero shark fin" hotels, including South Beauty, Beijing Jindingxuan, Shanghai Peninsula Hotel, Shangri-La Group and so on. Kate, the heroine of Titanic? Winslet, the daughter of Formula One racing president Tamara? Compassionate celebrities such as Ecclestone have promised never to eat foie gras. Join them and be a conscientious foodie!