Whaling Secrets

“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.”

Harpoons using the same explosive grenade heads employed fifty years ago are being used right now 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 whalein 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. 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!

Under IWC rules, any meat that results from research whaling must be used. 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.
Japanese whaling isn’t about science at all. It’s simply commercial whaling in disguise.
Whales need your help right now more than ever before.

Japan is killing protected whales in a marine mammal sanctuary, selling illegal whale meat and buying votes in an international decision-making body. Please help the world's whales before there’s no turning back.