Help ban commercial whaling!
----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Robyn E., Care2 Action Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:46:56 PM Subject: Whaling is cruel and unnecessary. Help ban commercial whaling! Many whales are endangered and on the brink of extinction ... Yet, the whaling industry continues even when there is no plan for how the bodies of these beautiful animals will be used. There is no humane way to kill whales. Please donate to save these intelligent animals. Hi friend, It's hard to believe that the whaling industry still exists, but this is even worse. Investigators in Iceland just revealed that endangered whales have been hunted, stockpiled and large portions of their bodies left to rot on a rubbish dump! [1] Help save these intelligent animals by donating today: http://go.care2.com/e/R5sk/Enuw/fb5Q Whale-killing methods are notoriously brutal, often causing these intelligent animals to suffer for up to an hour or more. In addition, only a very few countries eat the meat that is now left to rot. Much of the meat is warehoused indefinitely and even used for dogfood. Please donate today to help end this needless destruction. Recently, anti-whaling voices have begun to lose their leadership role at the International Whaling Commission (the body that regulates whaling). At the same time, pro-whaling nations have begun to escalate their annual whale slaughter programs, and Iceland resumed its commercial whaling program that had been shut down for over two decades. This year is a very important year for whales. Help stop brutal whaling by donating today: http://go.care2.com/e/R5sk/Enuw/fb5Q This May, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is meeting in Anchorage, Alaska - the first time in U.S. territory since 1989. There is no better time to dampen the pro-whaling agenda than now, while the IWC is meeting on our turf. How can you help end inhumane and unnecessary whaling? Donate to Humane Society International (HSI) today! Some of the many reasons HSI advocates completely banning commercial whaling around the world include: There is no humane way to kill whales. They are sentient, intelligent mammals, and they may suffer horrible and often prolonged deaths due to the brutal killing methods used; There are so many other threats against whales now (global warming, ship strikes, pollution, sonar/noise issues, etc.) that a resumption of whaling could tip them toward extinction; and Modern society no longer needs whale bone, blubber, meat, or oil. HSI has worked to end whaling since 1973. Their campaign, Save Whales - Not Whaling, educates governments around the world about the threat that commercial whaling poses to whale populations, encourages trade sanctions against governments that continue their whaling activities, and advocates for the creation of whale sanctuaries where whales can breed, feed, and calve away from human predators. With your help, HSI will continue its work to ban commercial whaling this year. A complete ban would stop the constant battles and loopholes that permit some countries to brutally kill these intelligent creatures. Please donate to help save whale populations around the world: http://go.care2.com/e/R5sk/Enuw/fb5Q With gratitude, Robyn E. Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team [1] Read more about this shocking development here. Thank you for signing up to receive Animals & Environment Alerts from Care2 via ThePetitionSite! Your email address has not been bought from other sources. If you learned something interesting in this newsletter, please forward it to your friends, family and colleagues. To stop receiving this newsletter, visit: http://www.care2.com/newsletters/unsub/11/0/2633377/55954299 or send a blank email message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Care2.com, Inc. 275 Shoreline Drive, Suite 150 Redwood City, CA 94065 http://www.care2.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
