I know I may sound like a broken record when I ask you to say no to flake, but I promise I have my reasons. So let’s begin here.

Flake is shark meat. What shark can be the million dollar question, as with the current processes there is no defined way to track from the ocean to the shop.

Flake is a by-product of the shark fin trade and it works in two ways.

Sharks are generally killed for their fins.

Their bodies are often kicked back overboard and left to drown, which can take days.

Imagine you’re swimming, minding your own business and then you are hurled onto a boat.

You’re not a life, you a merely another number for the greedy and uneducated, your arms and legs cut off and your torso is kicked overboard and left to die slowly and painfully – this is shark finning. 

This is the reality, and it is happening every minute of every day. 

Sometimes, their meat is sold back onshore – this is flake.

Sharks are caught for their meat and their fins are then sold overseas, usually to black markets in Asia.

So this, my friends, is why I  go on about flake.

But it can also be the consumer who suffers.

Indeed, flake has been scientifically tested and found to contain chemicals including mercury, arsenic, lead, urea, microplastics and polychlorinated biphenyls. 

Mercury levels in tested samples have been found to contain levels three times higher than what is safe for human consumption, causing neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s.

This can even cause pregnant women to have a miscarriage. 

Why order this when you have so many other options?

More sustainable and healthy options include: 

Here’s to a lovely, flake-free Easter.