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Save Whales From a Cruel End: Stop Whaling Now

Target: President Bush
Sponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare
Whales are still in danger. Since a global ban on whaling in 1985, Japan has continued to kill whales in the name of "scientific research." Yet legitimate scientists agree: there's no need to kill whales in order to study them when non-lethal methods already exist.

In fact, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has clearly stated it does not need the data obtained from killing whales: passing resolutions critical of Japan's research whaling program forty-one times!

Yet Japanese whalers continue to kill whales in horribly cruel fashion, harpooning them with explosive tips and then dragging them onto whale ships. Japan actually sells the meat from this "research" to restaurants. And now Japan is increasing the slaughter: doubling the number of whales killed in an international marine mammal sanctuary.

Unless they are stopped now, Japan will launch a return to full-scale industrial whaling; the last of which once drove whales to the brink of extinction. Only the tremendous resources and clout of the United States has a chance to stop Japan from destroying the world's whales.

Please sign the petition asking President Bush to oppose Japan's bid for permanent membership into the United Nations Security Council until they comply with international laws protecting whales.
deadline: 4-25-2008
goal: 150,000
 

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Dear Mr. President,

WHEREAS, the cruel killing of whales by Japan continues in the internationally protected waters of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, despite official U.S. opposition and a global moratorium on whaling, and...

WHEREAS, Japan is using international aid to buy votes at the International Whaling Commission in order to legalize commercial whale hunting and sabotage the sanctity of an international decision-making body, and...

WHEREAS, Japan's claim of killing whales for "scientific research" is an obvious ruse. There is no need to harm whales in order to study them, as scientists on IFAW's own whale research vessel, Song of the Whale, repeatedly demonstrate. Japan's "scientific research" is a cover up to sell whale meat on the open market as part of a commercial whaling program, and...

WHEREAS, whales already face real and growing threats from global warming, ocean noise, entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes,

I THEREFORE PETITION YOU to oppose Japan's bid for permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council until the nation complies with international laws for the protection of whales.

ACT NOW to stop Japanese whaling BEFORE Japan takes over the IWC and changes the rules of the game to legalize commercial whaling; dooming the world's whales to gradually disappear.

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Sincerely,
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We signed the “Save Whales From a Cruel End: Stop Whaling Now” petition!
# 104,900:
7:36 am PDT, Apr 8, Corissa Gesicki, New Jersey
This is ridiculous and an outrage!!!!!! They are so precious to us and many people don't realize it. This needs to be stopped. If they go extinct because idiots like killing them then guess what IT WILL EFFECT US GREATLY IF NOT DESTROY US!!!! Open your eyes!!!! STOP THE WHALING!!!!!!
# 104,899:
7:34 am PDT, Apr 8, ROBIN MCKAY, Kentucky
# 104,898:
1:07 am PDT, Apr 8, Casey Wilson, Australia
There are so many reasons why whaling is wrong. Too many to say
# 104,897:
8:58 pm PDT, Apr 6, Jessica Wheeler, Australia
i am doing a school assignment on whaling and the information i havefound what is outragous. Even if whales needed to be killed for scienctific research, they would kill maybe on or two but not thousands a year! we do have a say and lets make ours count!
# 104,896:
4:51 pm PDT, Apr 6, Lola Richards, Maine
# 104,895:
1:16 am PDT, Apr 6, Santhy Santiago, New York
# 104,894:
8:33 pm PDT, Apr 5, Carola Sánchez, Chile
# 104,893:
5:15 pm PDT, Apr 5, Name not displayed, Mexico
# 104,892:
3:52 pm PDT, Apr 5, Dana Pallotta, New Jersey
# 104,891:
8:15 am PDT, Apr 5, Sherry Przybylski, Illinois
# 104,890:
3:25 am PDT, Apr 5, Stacy Stiegleiter, Tennessee
# 104,889:
9:43 am PDT, Apr 4, Kristen Augustine, Florida
# 104,888:
9:43 am PDT, Apr 4, Patricia Adams, California
Please President Bush, make Japan act like a civilized country.
# 104,887:
3:34 am PDT, Apr 4, Enrique Pestana, Spain
# 104,886:
9:47 pm PDT, Apr 3, Patricia Feurer, Maryland
# 104,885:
8:49 pm PDT, Apr 3, Karen Flanagan, Australia
What have whales done to deserve such fates that the Japanese have in store for them? The 'scientific research' justification is only a loophole for them to kill these magnificent creatures for meat. They are flagrantly flouting the law for no other reason than to make money. The Japanese need to be sent a clear message that whaling is no longer acceptable to the USA or to most of the rest of the world.
# 104,884:
6:44 pm PDT, Apr 3, Elizabeth Craig, Virginia
What is there to decide? If we continue to destroy entire species. We will inevitably destroy our ourselves and more important our children and grandchildren.
# 104,883:
11:42 am PDT, Apr 3, Shawn Williamson, California
# 104,882:
2:45 am PDT, Apr 3, Rachel Billington, United Kingdom
# 104,881:
6:06 pm PDT, Apr 2, Mick Gill, Australia
# 104,880:
4:32 pm PDT, Apr 2, Linda Dietrick, Washington
This is the enlightened age, we no longer need to be cruel to animals
# 104,879:
4:12 pm PDT, Apr 2, Bridget Schueler, California
# 104,878:
3:58 pm PDT, Apr 2, Lisa Reali, Ohio
# 104,877:
2:38 pm PDT, Apr 2, Mirelle Bonte, Canada
# 104,876:
2:24 pm PDT, Apr 2, Name not displayed, Texas
dear president bush, many things are happening in our world today but one issue in partisular really stuned me that is the whale killing. i beleve that every mamal on earth should be protected not killed to make somthing women use to look fake. whaleing shouldn't be exepteted you as the president of the united states can stop that. that is why i think that as the president of the united stateshas to put an end to whale killing. "remember united we are united we stand but together we can make a diffirance"
# 104,875:
12:48 pm PDT, Apr 2, Lucia Izquierdo, Guatemala
# 104,874:
12:19 pm PDT, Apr 2, Oana Ichim, Romania
# 104,873:
12:18 pm PDT, Apr 2, Laurence Metereaux, France
non au massacre
# 104,872:
12:04 pm PDT, Apr 2, Melinda Fritz, Hungary
# 104,871:
10:42 am PDT, Apr 2, Ana Maria carvalho, Brazil
# 104,870:
10:12 am PDT, Apr 2, Pavel Movchanov, Russian Federation
# 104,869:
10:06 am PDT, Apr 2, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Dear President Bush, Please take action now against the Japanese whalers, I understand this cruelty is still going on and it is totally unacceptable, there is absolutely no reason for the deaths of these whales, it is just a cover up, they are not being studied at all, we are not stupid, we know the real reason behind it, and it must stop NOW!
# 104,868:
8:36 am PDT, Apr 2, Marcia Warth, Ohio
# 104,867:
2:04 am PDT, Apr 2, Arianna Pallanti, Italy
# 104,866:
5:31 pm PDT, Apr 1, Michelle Hensel, Kentucky
Please stop the killing. What are you thinking!!!!!
# 104,865:
4:48 pm PDT, Apr 1, Ruth Bescript, Arizona
Studied? Hmmm! This is nothing more than shameful killing for the sake of killing.
# 104,864:
3:01 pm PDT, Apr 1, Kathleen Michaels, Minnesota
STOP THE WHALE KILLING. IT'S BAD KARMA. WAIT N SEE. WHATS HAPPENING TO THE COWS AFTER WE TREAT THEM SO BAD! THEY GOT MAD. WONDER WHAT WHALES WILL DO?
# 104,863:
2:50 pm PDT, Apr 1, Naomi Dutch, California
# 104,862:
2:13 pm PDT, Apr 1, Esteban Rocha, Colombia
# 104,861:
8:27 pm PDT, Mar 31, Daniel Vanbrabant, Florida
# 104,860:
11:33 am PDT, Mar 31, True Self, United Kingdom
# 104,859:
9:47 pm PDT, Mar 30, Lorena Mora, Colombia
STOP KILLING WHALES !
# 104,858:
6:27 pm PDT, Mar 30, Raul Cabral, California
Dear President ! I know you dont even care about animals,but do sometjing about ! By the way,the entire world hate you
# 104,857:
8:57 am PDT, Mar 30, LINDA DUKE, Illinois
# 104,856:
8:44 am PDT, Mar 30, Alberto Paquola, Italy
"What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." (I.Singer)
# 104,855:
7:47 pm PDT, Mar 29, Jake Taylor, Nevada
# 104,854:
2:32 pm PDT, Mar 29, Nicole Westley, Arizona
please dont kill anymore whales!!!!will we ever learn!!!
# 104,853:
6:49 am PDT, Mar 29, Nikkita Rayner, Australia
Not all Japanese people support whaling, this is something that some people don't seem to understand. Despite this fact, whaling should still be stopped.
# 104,852:
4:56 am PDT, Mar 29, Valeria Grassi, Italy
# 104,851:
4:46 am PDT, Mar 29, Linda MIra-Bateman, Australia
USA should be leading the world in stopping this and other atrocities