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End “Scientific” Whaling, The Whale-Killing Loophole
Target: Ministry of the Environment, JapanSponsored by: Care2, Care2
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-killing.
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-killing.
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It is no different than murdering a human. They have a life to.
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There is no reason to continue hunting and slaughtering these magnificent animals. It is time the human race learned to respect and protect the creatures with whom we share this universe.
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because no "research" is important enough to be a reason to kill whales.
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The world's whale population is just beginning to recover from the devastating whaling practices that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries. Whaling pushed many species of whale to the brink of extinction, including the blue whale, the largest mammal ever to live. Only the complete halt of whaling will prevent these magnificient creatures from disappearing forever.
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We are destroying ourselves!! Wake up!
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Whales are mammals just like us and we should respect them. It is awful and whales deserve to live.
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Just because you can get away with such horrendous practices legally, doesn't make it right. PLEASE stop the unnecessary killing of the whales of this world - OUR world.
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Respect the biodiversity of life.
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Whales are a great part of the environment as any other creature is, killing them only acelerates the process of destroying the ecosystem and therefore, the planet.
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The UNESCO Manifesto 2000 - Code of Ethics http://www.unesco.org/manifesto2000/default.asp?part=ind/usa/369/uxu
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These intelligent mammals are endangered. Their survival is extremely important to the ocean's ecosystem.
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Its wrong and they should find some thing other than whale meat to eat. I still to this day have nightmare about a whale killing from a Animal show on save the whale and show how Japan kill its whale back then. The bay run Blood red that day. I well never forget it.
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Whaling is wrong .. whaling with a fake pretext like "research" or "science" is even worse. I am totally and a 100% against it!!
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It's inhumane..it's barbaric..it's cruel..it's wastful and mostly it's WRONG!!!
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Scientific slaughtering and the meat shows up in the marketplace.....doesn't seem very scientific!
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"Scientific research" fools nobody when the meat ends up in the marketplace.
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god!! how stupid can you possably be!!! you can't just kill these animals!!
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Scientific whaling is an excuse to kill whales for other purposes! I'm not a complete dumbass you know!
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What a travesty!~ Killing whales and selling their meat in the name of science and research....have you lost your senses?
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There's no reason to harm any creature.
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Killing whales is not a good thing to do.
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There is no reason to kill these fragile creatures. Animals are not here for us to use and kill off.
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