Help Stop Whaling!!!!

Since the international ban in 1986 thousands of whales have been relentlessly hunted due to loopholes in the ban, allowing countries like Japan and Norway to hunt whales for "scientific" research.

It has been proved a numerous amount of times that Japan and Norway (for example) are using Whale products illegally on the markets. These 'illegal' whale products include: Meat, Make-up, Clothing, Accessories, Oil and many more.

To add to this problem the ways in which the whales are taken from their home and killed is by all means inhumane. Instead of using painless fast methods of killing, Whalers use brutal equipment to destroy the animal leaving it to suffer for up to several hours before dieing.

These methods include grenade harpoons which are explosives attached to the end of the harpoon which is fired up to 30 inches into the mammal before being detonated causing extreme pain and suffering to the animal leaving it to die a slow death.

An even slower and more painful method of hunting whales is the "cold" harpoon, this is a plain harpoon shot into the mammals head and upper body, piercing its lungs and causing suffocation. in most cases it takes several shots to kill the whale because it takes so long before the once graceful creature gets towed behind the vessel before being processed for market.

Seven out of the 13 great whale species are still endangered or vulnerable after decades of protection. A return to whaling would definitely sign the death warrant for some of these species.