Reader Comments on Feeding Frenzy from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Wed, 23 May 2012 02:39:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/seenewengland/test/sharks This is an appalling slanted, biased, naive and irresponsible article. Sharks pose zero threat to humans - the \"attacks\" cited in your article are accidental prey \"mistakes\". Sharks almost never attack or eat people on purpose. If so, there would be tens of thousands of people or more killed yearly. Instead, the average number killed is 4 to 5. Falling coconuts, holes on the beach, vending machine kill more people. Domesticated dogs, bees all kill many times more. And humans? We are killing 100 million sharks a year for a tasteless soup decoration. Many sharks, including Great Whites, are highly intelligent (much more than a dog or cat), social, very wary of people and nothing at all like the animal you describe in frothy, over-hyped article. Great Whites are also on the verge of extinction and your failure to lead with this info does a great disservice to anyone reading it. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=is-the-great-white-shark-slowly-sli-2010-02-25 Your article fails to mention how the gruesome tournament erroneously characterizes sharks as \"monsters\". The only \"monsters\" are earth are bipedal and prone to watching TV. The only feeding frenzy is embarrassing articles like this. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:18:51 +0100