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Sea Shepherd is an amazing activist group with a mission to “end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans;” they are perhaps most famous for using their boats to try to enforce international laws on whaling in oceans where there is no other working law enforcement.

They’re also working with Lush Cosmetics on an anti-shark-finning campaign. From their newsletter:

Shoppers on Regents Street in central London likely got more than they bargained for last week. On September 3rd in a dramatic illustration of how sharks are caught and killed for their fins, Alice Newstead, performance artist and former employee of LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, voluntarily had her skin pierced with actual de-barbed shark hooks and hung suspended from the ceiling in the window of one of LUSH’s busiest shops for 15 minutes.

As a crowd gathered to watch in horror, Newstead said, “I am doing this because the demand for shark fin soup and other shark products is wiping out the shark population.” Unlike the 100 million sharks who are brutally slaughtered each year for their fins, Newstead commented, “I will be left with scars, but the wounds will heal.”

Here’s the video…I don’t have to give you a warning about it after that description, do I?

Eleven thousand sharks an hour…should we be surprised that our oceans are becoming empty?