Shoppers’ Shark Soup

NOW Magazine - August 27-September 3, 2008 | VOL 27 NO 52

Animal rights activists hit Shoppers Drug Mart where it hurts at last weekend’s Cancer Below The Belt event. The drugstore chain, which sponsored the cancer funder race, has been peddling shark cartilage on its shelves for years, and people have been popping the pills in droves, often under the illusion that, you know, “sharks don’t get cancer, so I won’t get cancer.” Meanwhile, not one single controlled clinical study has found that it works as an anti-cancer agent. Put that in your shark fin soup and choke on it.