Food blogger fined Rs 15 lakh after sharing video of her illegally buying and eating a great white shark

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• Jan 31, 2023 | Kabir Chakraborty

In one of the videos, the blogger is seen lifting up the 6.6-foot shark, chopping it, and preparing it.

Digital Desk: A Chinese food
blogger was fined after she released a video of herself illegally purchasing
and eating a great white shark.

Tizi, the blogger who goes
by in her videos as Tizi, is well-known for her mukbang videos. Mukbang is a
sort of video, particularly one that is live-streamed, in which a person
consumes a big amount of food while addressing the audience.

According to officials in
the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, she violated Chinese wildlife
preservation rules by unlawfully purchasing and consuming a sensitive species
in April 2022.

According to Bloomberg, the
blogger paid $7,700 yuan ($1,141) for the great white shark on Alibaba's Taobao
buying portal. She then shared videos on Douyin and Kuaishou, two other
video-sharing platforms.

In one of the videos, the
blogger is seen lifting up the 6.6-foot shark, chopping it, and preparing it.

Authorities punished her $18,500
USD after the video went viral. On Douyin, where she has 7.8 million followers,
she has previously shared footage of herself eating crocodiles and ostriches.

The blogger was heard
remarking in the now-deleted video, "It may look vicious, but its meat is genuinely
incredibly delicate."

Later, she demonstrated
cutting the shark in half, grilling its tail, and cooking its head in broth.

Great White Sharks are now
under international protection due to severe ecological challenges. The great
white shark is classified as a vulnerable species by the International Union
for Conservation of Nature.

They are prohibited species
in China under the Wild Animal Protection Law, which makes transporting, purchasing,
and selling them illegal.

Anyone who violates these
restrictions faces significant penalties or a ten-year prison sentence.