Yao flew into town from Shanghai last week to receive WildAid’s International Ambassador award; the basketball star’s been working with the organization for about five years. KALW's Ben Trefny sat down with Yao Ming and asked him how popular shark fin soup is in China.
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May 11, 2011
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YAO MING: Very, very popular. It’s a luxury food. Many of business dinner, a lot of high-level dinners, they will bring shark fin soup. I’ve tried a couple times many years ago. It’s very popular in China.
BEN TREFNY: When did you realize there might be a problem with shark fins?
YAO: I think since we know that a little bit even before I worked with WildAid, but we never realized it was that serious problem. I became more worried about our future, the sharks’ future as well as related to our future.
TREFNY: Do you feel there’s a generational communications issue with the issue of shark fins? You’re pretty young – you have the awareness from WildAid. Coming from a different generation, for your parents or your parents’ parents, do you think that there has been some resistance to trying to stop finning sharks?
YAO: That’s a good question. As I know the shark fin soup is not choosed by...
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