Last Thursday, our global issues class gathered in our classroom during lunchtime. We made cookies were in the form of a shark fin soup with red color on the bottom to represent how it was violently cut off. We sold cardboard that looked like shark's fin that had "STOP THE KILLING" on it. We made games representing the survival and death of sharks. Also, during the whole of the lunch time, we showed videos about the genocide of sharks. We, by doing this, made people aware of the massacre taking place out in the ocean. Our action, hopefully, would stop our visitors from every eating shark's fin soup, and make them tell others about the Massacre, and stop them from eating shark's fin soup.
I think we succeeded to raise awareness as the whole class, since many people bought the cookies and saw the movie. But my group seemed to have failed this. Although people payed for our game (for some reason), we didn't seem to have explained to them that their cap represented a shark trying to escape the murderous fishermen and their long lines.
If I could do this kind of thing again, I would tell the costumers the situation they are, in order to raise more awareness. Also, I would get some red-painted fin-looking objects, and if the die, I would tell them that they were the only parts left of them, and the other parts were thrown out to the sea, left to be eaten by others.
From this, I learned how ignorant people were about sharks that were killed, and that these sort of campaigns are nessecary.
Image from : http://naturescrusaders.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/for-a-bowl-of-soup-we-alter-the-ecosystem/zzzshark-fin-soup/
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