The next time you indulge in some savory shark fin soup…in China, remember this image. Of a girl. Hanging from her skin deliberately in order to spotlight the cruel massacre of sharks killed for consumption in the world. Oh yeah. She’s totally stuck-up. Heh. See what we did there? Barump bump.

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 outside the Lush cosmetics shop in London’s Regent’s Street to see the 26-year-old impaled by hooks in her back and gasped as blood trickled down her back. Miss Newstead said: “I am doing this because the demand for shark fin soup and other shark products is wiping out the shark population.

Question: where does one take a girl like this out on a date? Continue:

“I have had my torso, legs, arms, stomach and knees pierced before so that I could hang from them, so this is no big deal. “Being hung from the chest is more painful than the back because it restricts your breathing, but as long as the piercer knows what they are doing then it is completely safe,” she said.

The last time we pierced anything was at the local Swap Meet and we paid $5 to a guy who definitely didn’t know what he was doing. But this is quite the noble act considering the hooks sliced through her skin will divert shark fin eaters the same way an insurmountable amount of testimony and documentation will detour Republicans from thinking that Saddam Hussein and Iraq had something to with 9/11. Still, kudos shark girl.

Artist hangs herself from hooks in protest at shark treatment [Telegraph]
Image [Telegraph]