Obama Shark Fin Soup: President Eats At Restaurant That Still Serves Taboo Meat

SFGate.com:

President Obama, who signed the Shark Conservation Act into law last month, apparently didn't check out the menu before he made a surprise visit Thursday to a Chinatown restaurant that is among a handful still serving shark fin soup, a delicacy that has been outlawed in California.

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Comments

[Barry Peterson]

01:57 PM on 02/17/2012

What id.iot thought this was news?

[campcranston]

01:54 PM on 02/17/2012

So the restaurant had their illegal wares confiscated then, right?

[climbing panda]

01:10 PM on 02/17/2012

first the super pac thing, now this. o gawd when will it end.....

[MyResponsibility]

12:55 PM on 02/17/2012

The delicacy has NOT been outlawed in CA. Importing fins into the state is outlawed, but fins in cold storage ar the time the law was passed is legal to sell, and therefore legal to serve in a restaurant. Plenty of issues exist to legitimately rip this President, this isn't one of them.

[climbing panda]

01:09 PM on 02/17/2012

if you were a principled man, like a president should be, he would avoid an establishment that violates his principles.

[MyResponsibility]

01:30 PM on 02/17/2012

Who says that this establishment violated his principles?  The Shark Conservation Act does not outlaw shark fins to be landed in any US port and be traded between states.

[ninjasrolled]

01:49 PM on 02/17/2012

And when you eat out, or pull into a drive through, do you call first and grill the owner about every one of your principles? Make sure there are no illegals working there? Make sure they pay their employees fairly and on time? Make sure the salmon is farmed sustainably? Did they source their veggies locally, or did they slip in some exotic fruit that had to be trucked, wasting precious oil? Do they clean their bathrooms using green products, or harmful chemicals? What is their stance on hiring homosexuals? Do they have unisex bathrooms for transgendered people?

I'm sure you are an intelligent person, but your comment wasn't well thought through.

[BrooklynChef]

12:37 PM on 02/17/2012

HOW IS THIS NEWS?

[bizzaro birdman]

11:51 AM on 02/17/2012

And people are giving Mitt Romney crap for driving a Chrysler that was made in Canada.

[WatcherfrmLeft]

08:37 PM on 02/18/2012

The smart thing he should have driven a GM.

[blurredmolly]

11:03 AM on 02/17/2012

he didn't know

obama/biden 2012

[NoboyukiMasaki]

10:21 AM on 02/17/2012

I've eaten at a restaurant in Chicago that served Al Capone as a V.I.P.

After reading this article, I won't eat there anymore.

/sarcasm