Yao Ming gives up shark’s fin soup as part of talk-walking

kunsjoi reports that NBA star Yao Ming has given up shark’s fin soup as part of his campaign to promote wildlife protection in China. Ming has been working with San Francisco-based WildAid, and apparently he’s got a commercial out there somewhere in which he takes a bullet for an elephant. I must see this. Find it for me. I have no idea what else Yao Ming might be eating or using that would harm his credibility as a spokesperson for wildlife (though we know the basketballs are synthetic), nor do I know how available shark’s fin soup is for a basketball player, but it’s nice to see a celebrity actually take action beyond posing for photographs or lending his or her name to a cause. Link.