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    Acct Project 2

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    summary: Whale fishing‚ also known as whaling‚ is a traditional fishing activity which existing thousands of years in the world. Fisherman fishing whales‚ sell of whale meat and oil to make money. With the development of modern fishing technology‚ industrial fishing gradually replaces a large number of private fishing activities‚ which made whaling easier and more efficient. Greenpeace International’s data showed “Commercial whaling during the last century decimated most of the world’s whale populations

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    Commercial Whaling

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    enforced more and those are Most whale species have a very few amount of them left in the wild‚ the way the hunters kill the whales is cruel‚ and it is already illegal but people choose to break the law. The first reason whaling needs to be stopped permanently is that most whales have a very low number of them. Minke whales are the most hunted whale of them all and there species is at a rapid decline the Japanese whaling quota this year was to kill 935 Minke whales. In Japans 2011-2012 whaling campaign

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    recently killed 333 Minke whales‚ 103 males and 230 female. Most females were pregnant‚ and it was claimed for scientific purposes (Price). This is such a large problem because the Japanese are not seeing any harm in what they are doing. Many have fought to say that Japan’s whaling is not for scientific purposes because it is only harming their population.

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    Grind happens is that during the summer‚ the Faroese people surround pilot whales with a semicircle of boats‚ then they drive these whales to shore where the hunters wait to kill them. Sea Shepherd does not believe that this should happen and have gone done to the Faroe Islands to stop it. 2.) The first group that is considered a stakeholder would be the Faroese people who rely on this meat for much of their meals. The whale meat makes up about 30% of all meat produced locally on the island. The

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    known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature bluewhales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail‚ and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That’s as long as an 8- to 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days‚ most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales generally weigh more than the males. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed389

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    whaling and trading in whale meat. Each year‚ Japan kills around 700 whales for what it claims is research‚ while the meat is being sold in restaurants and shops. If there are to be whales at all for future generations to enjoy‚ then this excessive whaling has got to stop. Not only is Japan over-whaling‚ it is importing cheaper whale meat from Norway because of its cheaper prices. The hunting of whales is outlawed internationally‚ except of course by Japan and Norway. Whales are an endangered species

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    the Blue Whale and the Skunk. I will describe what characteristics they share‚ and some of their differences. I will also list a couple more animals considered to be mammals. Three things all mammals have in common are: the ear contains three middle ear bones‚ at some point in life they all have hair‚ and they all have mammary glands. As I will state below they have different habitats and reproduce differently. They also feed differently from each other(Wund & Myers‚ 2005). The blue whale (Balaenoptera

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    1946 to monitor the whale stock and a proper development and coordination of the whaling industries‚ to know for what purpose the whales where been killed and Whales stoke of whale being killed (David‚ 2014The). However in the 1980s‚ admissions of non-whaling countries that advocated an anti-whaling campaign increased rapidly under the influence of environmental pressure groups. The IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982‚ but still allows that the meat of whales killed for scientific

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    Essay On Food Taboos

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    Many styles of cuisine exist in the United States‚ a few foods are considered taboo by most of American culture. In the United States‚ where hundreds of world cultures blend into one society‚ the concept of what foods are taboo and what are simply exotic can be difficult to qualify. Food taboos of the United States differ depending on a person’s cultural background‚ religion and location. [1] Dogs and cats are revered as domestic animals and important parts of many American families‚ these creatures

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    mesmerizing in various ways in his essay “Joyas Volardoras.” However‚ he also shows that a heart is vulnerable to the simplest things in everyday life. He expresses both of these points by having a different outlook on the hearts of hummingbirds‚ whales‚ and humans. Doyle informs us that a hummingbird’s heart is small in size but it is full of strength. Their heart allows them to fly hundreds of miles nonstop and dive sixty miles an hour. Hummingbirds also have extremely aggressive metabolisms

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