I do eat meat and fish occasionally, but this photo killed my appetite for animal protein for a while.

I’m a scuba diver who really doesn’t mind eating fish every now and then. But when I saw this picture, I cringed from the disgust I felt.

And as I looked at it a while longer, a second realisation hit me:  the beauty of the beast.  How amazingly perfect is the inside of a whale shark!

Suddenly, not even salmon sushi (for which you can wake me up in the middle of the night) seemed attractive anymore.

Fish are friends, not food… most of the time.

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Editor: Bryonie Wise

Photo: WildLifeRisk