Friday, September 5, 2008

Protester hangs herself from hooks

An artist pierced her skin with shark hooks and hung herself from a shop ceiling in protest at the treatment of the animal.
Alice Newstead took the drastic action in protest at the practice of finning – where sharks are impaled on hooks, before their fins are sliced off to harvest meat for shark fin soup. The sharks are then thrown back into the ocean still alive.
A crowd gathered to see the 26-year-old impaled by hooks in her back and gasped as blood trickled down her back.

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