Save the whales...still

[GoddessOfGuinness]

When the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets on June 16-20 in
St. Kitts, the Japanese government is determined to overturn the 20
year-old international ban on whaling. We cannot let this happen.

Please join me by contacting your President, Prime Minister, Chancellor
or Premier and urge them to stop Japan from reversing the whaling ban.
To learn more about what each of us can do to help protect our world's
whales, please visit http://www.stopwhalingnow.org, or the website specific to the efforts in your country (listed below).

Thank you for joining me in the fight to help protect these magnificent
beings.


International websites about how you can help protect whales are listed
below.
Australia: stopwhaling.com.au
Canada: stopwhaling.ca
China: http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=crLQK7PFLoF&b=1583641
Germany: stopptdiewaljagd.de
Mexico:
http://www.kintera.org/site/c.hiKYLbPMLrF/b.727531/k.CB54/Home.htm
The Netherlands: stopdewalvisjacht.nl
The United Kingdom: stopwhaling.co.uk
United States: http://www.stopwhalingnow.org

[Deep13]

1. Goddammit!

And when they have caught them all, then what?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Then they'll start on another species...

:grr:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. tweak

[flvegan]

4. The Japanese whaling fleet is out right now.

Corruption, pure and simple, diabolically turning countries signed into the IWC against the common, ethical view on whaling.

Greed once again rears it's ugly head.

Excellent post, thanks!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. How can they drum up support for this crime?

What line of crap are they feeding people?

I want to be prepared to pounce on any bullshit they're shoveling...

[flvegan]

6. Greenpeace says it better than I could...

of course.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/save-our-seas-2/save-the-whales/japanese-whaling

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Thanks for the link!

:yourock:

[Monk06]

8. The whales the Japanese are 'studying' are processed into dog food.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Ugh! Do you know what brands?

[Monk06]

11. The whole sordid story of Japan's greedy subsidized whale industry...

The Pet Food company is Hakudai

This year I was commissioned by a British newspaper to research a Japanese company called Hakudai, which was reputed to be putting whale meat into dog food. Japan has a huge surplus of whale meat and they are trying to find new ways to market it including ice cream. Whale meat is in such over supply that it is the same price as chicken.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/HF01Dh03.html

http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/38F865D143F73D29802571110037169A

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art41862.asp

[LeftyMom]

10. Whale flesh is also used for school lunches and fast food in Japan.

"Scientific whaling" my ass. :grr:

[LeftyMom]

12. Contacts for letters

http://www.seashepherd.org/whales/whales_what_you_can_do.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Thanks LeftyMom!

I'm going to be busy writing letters... :D