This is Project Animals Right To Life,  A Voice For Animals

Whales are still being hunted and it’s just as cruel as ever!

  Whales are still not safe! Since a global ban on whaling in 1986, Japan has continued to kill whales in the name of “scientific research.” Yet legitimate scientists agree: there’s no need to kill whales to research them.

  Whales are being slaughtered by Japan in horribly cruel fashion so their meat can be sold in gourmet restaurants. And now they are dramatically increasing the slaughter: doubling the number of whales killed.

  Unless they are stopped now. Japan could launch a return to full-scale industrial whaling: a horrific practice that drove many whale species 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 — if the President acts now.

  YOUR SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED ON THE enclosed Petition to the President. Sign now to stop the cruel and unnecessary practice of whaling — before it’s too late.

  I want to share with you the following description written a half century ago in the Antarctic by a physician onboard a whaling ship:

  “If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher’s truck through the streets of London while its blood pours into the gutter, we shall have an idea of the method of killing whales. The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream, the industry would stop for nobody would be able to stand it.”

  But tragically - I can’t.

  Harpoons using the same explosive grenade heads employed fifty years ago are being used by Japanese whalers to slaughter whales illegally.

  Often, the first blast isn’t enough to kill the poor whale. Japanese whaling ships were recently filmed hoisting live whales up the side of their huge industrial ships by the tail, leaving the whale’s blow hole underwater. The helpless whale can only thrash against the side of the ship, desperate for air, until it slowly drowns.

  Perhaps even more shocking, this unsanctioned killing is happening in the protected waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Marine Sanctuary, blatantly defying international law.

  Here’s why you don’t have to kill a whale in order to study it. Japan is able to continue hunting 

whales in such a sickening fashion because it is abusing a loophole in the international ban that permits killing whales in order to conduct scientific research.

  But the painful slaughter of whales does not benefit science, whales or people. Why?

  Because non-lethal methods to study whales already exist. Japan claims that scientific whaling is necessary to determine if whales are hurting commercial fish stocks. Yet some of the whale species killed by Japan do not even eat fish!

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

  So if it’s not for science, why does Japan really defy international law to inflict pain and suffering on the world’s most majestic creatures?

  I’m about to let you in on the real reason.

  The ugly secret of Japanese whaling you’re not supposed to know

  Under IWC rules, any meat that results from research whaling must be used. I’m sure you can see where this is going.

  Japan openly sells the whale meat it obtains from its “research” in markets and restaurants: despite the fact that whale meat is often extremely toxic from pollutants and dangerous to eat. Some whale meat is even being used as pet food.

  So it turns out that whaling isn’t about science at all. It’s simply commercial whaling in disguise. Over two thousand tons of whale meat came back from the Antarctic last year, and it ended up on restaurant tables and store shelves, not labs.

  The sad fact is that this ongoing tragedy has been going on for some time now. It may come as a surprise when I tell you that more than 25,000 whales have been hunted and killed since the ban on whaling was imposed.

  And yet, this number pales in comparison to the global devastation for whales that will follow if the events that are unfolding right now aren’t stopped immediately.

  Whales need your help right now more than ever before

  REASON NUMBER ONE TO ACT RIGHT NOW: Japan recently announced plans to double the number of whales it will kill in the next several years in the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, adding two protected species, fin and humpback whales, to its target list.

  The humpback’s song is one of nature’s greatest wonders. These magnificent, endangered creatures are meant to be witnessed in their natural beauty and be heard for generations to come, not eaten until they vanish forever.

  REASON NUMBER TWO WHY YOUR HELP CAN’T WAIT: Japan is on the verge of destroying more than thirty years of whale conservation by buying its way to a majority at this month’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, offering multi-million dollar fisheries grants to economically developing countries in exchange for pro-whaling votes.

  If we don’t convince the President to use the United States’ resources and clout far more aggressively to stop whaling, then Japan could possibly buy its way into a pro-whaling majority at this month’s IWC — setting an irreversible course that will be certain disaster for whales.

  REASON NUMBER THREE TO SPEAK OUT WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME: Whales and their ocean habitats already face real and growing threats from human activities such as ocean noise, global warming, ship strikes, and entanglement in fishing gear. Killing whales for profit as part of an illegal whale hunt when such magnificent animals already face such difficult odds for survival is not only completely unnecessary, it’s criminal.

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I have included this page to again provide evidence of the extent of our savagery upon the animals kingdom, and not to solicit donations. To use the petition select, copy  paste and sign, and mail to President Bush. JBS

  Petition to President George W. Bush

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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