Amazon: Drop Shark Fin Soup E action!

[Omaha Steve]

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Amazon: Drop Shark Fin Soup!
Online megastore, Amazon, sells everything from books to electronics to home decor. But there's no room in its product line for shark fin soup.

This so-called delicacy exploits a population that is already threatened with extinction. Shark finning involves cutting off the shark’s fins while it is still alive, and then tossing the body back into to the sea, dead or dying. Up to 73 million sharks are killed every year to support the international shark fin market.

Amazon has already discontinued one brand of shark fin soup thanks to consumer response. Now we need to get ALL shark fin products removed from its virtual shelves.

>>See the product for sale on Amazon's site.

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January 08, 2007

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[Redstone]

1. I'm not signing any petitions, but it is a worthy cause.

Redstone

[napi21]

2. If there is really a concern about shar,maybe they should go after

all the supermarkets and fish houses that sell shark! I have never eaten it, although I am a real food fish lover. I honestly haven't heard about any shortage of shark either. All I ever hear aobut are people getting attacked in coastal waters.

[Omaha Steve]

3. The reply from Amazon I just got!

Greetings from Amazon.com.

Thank you for writing to us with your comments regarding the sale of
shark fin soup on our web site.

We have great respect for your concerns. One of our goals as an
online retailer is to offer our customers the ability to purchase a
wide variety of products on our site. It is unfortunate but
inevitable that some of our customers may find a few of these items
objectionable.

Please note that the items in our Gourmet store are offered by
third-party merchants -- they are not sold directly by Amazon.com.
Some of these particular listings are now no longer available for sale
on our site.

We always value customer feedback, and we have passed along your
desire that we exclude items of this sort from our site. Thank you
again for taking the time to contact us at Amazon.com.

Sincerely,

Customer Service
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/