Shark Fin Soup: To eat or not to eat?

Recently there has been a ban enforced on the sale of shark fin. This post is to exhibit my views on this ban.

Although the sale of shark fins has been grossly taken advantage of by illegal fisherman off the coast of certain countries around the world, the banning of sharkfins in Toronto still is a slight mystery to me. City hall has not decided to ban the whole shark, yet only the fin, triggering, in my mind, certain qualities of racism within City hall. The reason I claim this is simple; there is only the fin banned from the market, yet other parts of the shark are allowed to thrive. I believe if the city wants to ban shark fin, the best option the city could make is to ban the entire shark itself, as opposed to only the fin.

Nonetheless, banning the fin itself does have its benefits to Mother Nature. I'm sure the amount of illegal shark hunting will go down after the ban takes effect. Nothing political, no matter how beneficial, comes cleanly without criticism; this much is obvious.