Whaling Persuasive Essay

Why do people hunt and kill whales? What's the point? Well many people do it to survive and make money, is that such a bad thing? There are three million whales left in the world and only 1,500 are killed each year and decreasing. Whales are used for food, business, and most parts of the whales are used for essential materials. Most people believe that whaling should be illegal everywhere because it is destroying the population soon to be endangered ruining the food chain, however nothing on the whale is getting wasted in any way, so it is for survival. Big part of whaling is for the meat and food. They use the food for money and business or to feed their families. In the article, Whaling for food, a whale hunter in Japan stated in “ ‘We do not kill whales for fun, not for science, but for feeding our families‘ ”(1). This proves that the whales are for family survival not to ruin the world; “ ‘most people that go whaling live off of whale meat’ ” as said by a Norwegian whaler, in the article save the meat(2). As you can see the whale is used for feeding
For example there are medicine and soaps made just from whale blubber. From the video Whaling, a scientist stated “Blubber, the fatty stuff found under a whale's skin, was used in things like soaps, candles and cosmetics. In the old days, whale bones were sometimes used in clothing. Ladies would wear corsets like this under their dresses, to make their waist look small. They were made with whale bones”(ABC). This goes to show how many whales are used around the world and needed to be hunted. There are a lot more whales left and its isn’t a terrible thing to hunt them. Also in an article called, Why Do We Hunt Whales she said, “Early man hunted whales because their meat and blubber were able to fulfill his basic survival needs.”(Alison Kim Perry). Just this one sentence shows how important whaling could be to