{"id":19407,"date":"2015-11-18T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T08:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/bioengineered-shark-fins-could-save-70-million-sharks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:26","slug":"bioengineered-shark-fins-could-save-70-million-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/bioengineered-shark-fins-could-save-70-million-sharks","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineered Shark Fins Could Save 70 Million Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioengineered-shark-fins-could-save-70-million-sharks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, an estimated 70 million sharks are killed for their fins. The brutal shark finning process involves cutting off a live shark\u2019s fins and returning the debilitated animal back into the water to die a slow death. Highly valued in traditional Asian medicine and cuisine, the fins can sell for as much as $300 a pound on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>What if an artificial shark fin could remove sharks from the equation completely?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newwavefoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Wave Foods<\/a>, a San Francisco-based sustainable seafood company, is developing a bioengineered fin product that could pull the rug out from underneath the shark trade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.com\/dscovrd\/tech\/bioengineered-shark-fins-could-save-70-million-sharks\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel&sf15379242=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, an estimated 70 million sharks are killed for their fins. The brutal shark finning process involves cutting off a live shark\u2019s fins and returning the debilitated animal back into the water to die a slow death. Highly valued in traditional Asian medicine and cuisine, the fins can sell for as much as $300 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506,41,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-information-science","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69182,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions\/69182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}