Research Paper Whaling Should Be Banned

Should whaling activities be banned completely? Whales are the largest animals on earth. It has existed for over millions of years. They are also the largest mammals on the planet. Although they all look alike, there are many species of whales. Each time, they will only produce one offspring. According to Whale World, female whales only produce a baby whale each year, for they need to take care of the baby for the whole year (Whale World, n.d). They are gentle animals with graceful movements and live in peace, until humans started to hunt them for various reasons. Whaling is the job of hunting whales for commercial purpose where their body parts are transferred into business products (Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, 2008). Since the 16th century, whales are found and hunted in small numbers, but the situation soon changed as they are killed in large scale with the advancement of human technology, such as the grenade harpoon (Lytle, 2008). They are mostly killed for their
Once the whaling fleet found a whale, they would shoot harpoon on the animal in order to hook to their body. The next step would be bringing the whale to the side of the ship before hanging it up to the ship. In the meantime, the whale will be left to death instead of being processed immediately. Some has to suffer the pain of being cut alive after they are brought up to the ship (Hendrich, n.d). This is a mean of torturing where it is like stabbing someone with a knife and left that person to die slowly, torturing his or her mentality. However, this is not the worst form of torturing suffered by whales. In Faroe Islands, whales, mainly orcas are chased and forced to the shore where whalers waiting to cut them and left them to bleed and struggle until they fall into their death (Rogers, n.d). These whales do not deserve any kinds of inhumane treatment where only a beast will do such