>>54865749It's a metaphor for shark fins, a Chinese delicacy.
>The sharks are often still alive when discarded, but without their fins. Unable to swim effectively, they sink to the bottom of the ocean and die of suffocation or are eaten by other predators.The subtext is that it not only hurts them, but they die a cruelly slow and painful death as a result.
>Slowpoke tails grow backThis is post-facto irrelevant shit added so they can appease peta and continue selling merchandise to children. And you bought it.
