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Post by Dive Bunnie on Oct 28, 2004 10:36:34 GMT
Here is an article on the Care2 web-site that may well concern you: "Over 20,000 whales have been killed since commercial whaling was banned by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. How? Partly because a loophole allows any nation to issue itself a permit to kill any number of whales "for the purposes of scientific research" and sell the whale meat in supermarkets later! Some nations, like Japan, continue to expand their programs of "scientific" killing. In fact, only 11% of Japanese adults support the killings, and so Japan has invested in a public relations offensive to convince the public that whaling is culturally and economically important to Japan and that whales eat too many fish and threaten the conservation of fish stocks - a claim for which there is no scientific basis.
More than 1,400 whales are expected to suffer a long and torturous death this year alone.
Sign this petition to Japan's Ministry of the Environment, urging him to stop flouting our international agreement to protect whales via so-called "scientific" whale-killingNow I know that this news is not totally new, however you can add your voice to the chorus, so pop along to the following link to register your plea to the better nature of Japan in this matter: www.care2.com/go/z/18283I have added my vote, and shall be emailing my friends with the link. Remember every little good deed has an effect.
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