Message-ID: <199905101510_MC2-752D-F8A6@compuserve.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:10:04 -0400 From: martin charter <mailto:101336.3560@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: whales To: mailto:INTDEV-L@pete.uri.edu
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Please help us to help the whales. For more information on Campaign Whale visit our web-site at www.campaign-whale.clara.net
WHALING..JAPAN AND NORWAY STILL MAKING A KILLING!
"If whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it"
An explosive harpoon is fired into the whale's body where it detonates causing massive internal injuries from the passage of shrapnel through the vital organs. The struggling animal is then winched toward the catcher ship by a cable attached to the harpoon trailing from deep within the gaping wound in its body. Sometimes more than one harpoon is used and the whale may be shot several times with a rifle, even electrocuted, to finally kill it. Times to death can vary from a few minutes to up to one hour.
In 1998, Norway and Japan slaughtered over a thousand whales just like this. Next year they plan to kill even more...
Campaign Whale is a new organisation set up by a former Greenpeace campaigner that is determined to stop this cruel slaughter once and for all. With your help, Campaign Whale will reactivate a public and political campaign for a permanent ban on commercial whaling, increasing pressure on governments to make it stick.
Please help us to help the whales. For more information on Campaign Whale visit our web-site at www.campaign-whale.clara.net
or write to us: PO Box 2673, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5BZ. Tel/fax 01323 811688.
e-mail: mailto:campaign-whale@clara.net