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1. Mike says:

   December 5, 2008 at 10:34 am

   I think they use bamboo trees for making chopsticks. Since bamboo is plentiful, grows fast, and a lot of chopsticks can be made from a single bamboo trunk. It’s safe to assume the chopsticks industry will not denude the forest :-)

   Unless the Chinese discover narra wood and decides that narra is the “luckiest” wood for chopsticks, then perhaps our forest trees might be affected due to the demand. However, this scenario is very unlikely.

   A sad and lamentable environmental problem is the Chinese’s delicacy of shark-fin soup. The high demand for this soup has led to indiscriminate butchering of shark just for their fins.

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2. Leonard Pe says:

   December 5, 2008 at 11:29 am

   @Mike -
   they use bamboo for the disposable chopsticks but for the not considered “disposable” chopsticks, wood from trees are being used. But of course, the “not so called disposable” are still disposed of.

   About the shark’s fin soup, now that’s another thing. It’s sad that even in our time that almost everybody knows about the importance of environment, balance of ecosystem, etc., still overfishing is rampant and those sharks that should have been left alone to do their job as one of the top ocean predators, still ends up being the prey.

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