No shark was harmed in the making of this shark fin soup

Imagine your morning commute. You're riding the metro or the bus or walking down the street when, out of nowhere, somebody jumps you and cuts off your arms and legs. "See you later," he says, walking away with your limbs under his arm.

That's the same thing it happens to a shark when he is being "finned"- as in harvested for its chewy fins, then left still living, but incapacitated. The shark is then tossed back into the sea to die. The grisly practice is done to meet the demand for shark fin soup, an expensive delicacy in some Asian countries cooking.

Like Beijing or Hong Kong, in Bangkok this expensive delicacy is one of the finest ways to flaunt your wealth. In the past, Chinese Emperors loved it because it was rare, tasty and difficult to prepare. Today, its popular with the Thai-Chinese population for the very same reasons, but also eaten as part of feasts to confer prestige on the meal's host, usually special occasions like weddings, banquets or clinching a big business deal.

Erroneously, it's said to have medicinal properties, everything from curing cancer, enhancing appetite, to being beneficial to kidneys, lungs and bones. Some believe it's also an aphrodisiac, though there is no scientific proof shark fin has any ingredients that will improve your sex life.

The irony is not lost on Jaws and his shark species as to how the alpha species, humans, are terror-stricken by them and yet, act like pathological terrorist when wanting to eat them for lunch. For soup no less. Like acts of terrorism, what humans do to sharks is senseless and inhumane. Time to mount an attack on the real predators – humans!