A Chinese TikToker Is Fined After Cooking and Eating a Great White Shark

Jin Moumou, known as Tizi on Douyin—the official name of TikTok in China—was fined $18,500 or P1 million after she posted a video of herself illegally buying a great white shark online, and then teaching people how to cook and eat the endangered animal species. 

In China, great white sharks are classified as an endangered species and is under the protection of the government. Hunting, killing, catching, buying, selling, or trading of the species is banned. 

In the video posted by the TikToker, she was seen happily posing with what looks like a juvenile great white shark, and then shows viewers how to cook it. She then gorges on the shark’s meat, saying “It may look menacing, but its meat is really quite tender.”

According to law enforcement, Tizi bought the shark for $1,141 or roughly P62,000 from Taobao, a Chinese online shopping platform owned by Jack Ma’s Alibaba. Samples from the meat taken from Tizi underwent DNA testing, which proved it was a great white shark. According to The Independent, two other Chinese involved in catching and selling the shark were also arrested. 

In February 2020, just as the pandemic was surfacing, the Chinese government enforced a total ban on the sale and trade of all wildlife. It can be remembered that the COVID-19 virus was thought to have originated from wild animals through the ingestion of their meat. 

Below is Tizi’s controversial video of cooking and eating a great white shark.

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Chinese woman vlogger fined 18,500 USD after teaching people how to cook and eat a great white shark

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