Why Whaling Should Be Banned Research Paper
Why Whaling should be banned, by Annabel Lees
Imagine yourself as a Minke Whale being chased by a whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean. After half an hour, BAM! A harpoon hits you. Instantly you feel an agonizing pain in your side. You still fight for another hour until you feel weak, as if you cant move one more muscle in your body, you start to slow down and give up. Then the whalers shoot you with a shotgun, until you die.
Every year this happens to over 2,500 innocent, beautiful whales, I believe that this is wrong. People started to recognize that there were problems about whaling in 1925, that it was wrong, unnecessary and extremely cruel.
Whales are becoming extinct because of us. The number of these rare, beautiful animals is lowering at an extremely high rate. At the moment, 7 of the 13 ‘great whale’ species are currently classified as extinct. This is unacceptable and we, as humans, have to put a stop to it. Imagine if whales become extinct, how would this affect our life? We can live without them, right? Well, many things cant. Whales play an important role in stabilizing the aquatic food chain, and the reproduction of other animals living in the marine area. So if more …show more content…
Recently I was in Japan and there was whale meat on many menus in the restaurants that I went to. Therefore I believe that countries such as Japan are not following the anti-whaling convention and have found a loophole to keep on hunting whales. This year, the International Court Of Justice, banned Japan's Antarctic whaling program. Some countries like Norway and Iceland have declined to sign the bill not to hunt whales as they state that it is within their rights to. Why should they not take notice of the world’s opinion on
Imagine yourself as a Minke Whale being chased by a whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean. After half an hour, BAM! A harpoon hits you. Instantly you feel an agonizing pain in your side. You still fight for another hour until you feel weak, as if you cant move one more muscle in your body, you start to slow down and give up. Then the whalers shoot you with a shotgun, until you die.
Every year this happens to over 2,500 innocent, beautiful whales, I believe that this is wrong. People started to recognize that there were problems about whaling in 1925, that it was wrong, unnecessary and extremely cruel.
Whales are becoming extinct because of us. The number of these rare, beautiful animals is lowering at an extremely high rate. At the moment, 7 of the 13 ‘great whale’ species are currently classified as extinct. This is unacceptable and we, as humans, have to put a stop to it. Imagine if whales become extinct, how would this affect our life? We can live without them, right? Well, many things cant. Whales play an important role in stabilizing the aquatic food chain, and the reproduction of other animals living in the marine area. So if more …show more content…
Recently I was in Japan and there was whale meat on many menus in the restaurants that I went to. Therefore I believe that countries such as Japan are not following the anti-whaling convention and have found a loophole to keep on hunting whales. This year, the International Court Of Justice, banned Japan's Antarctic whaling program. Some countries like Norway and Iceland have declined to sign the bill not to hunt whales as they state that it is within their rights to. Why should they not take notice of the world’s opinion on