Recycling's in fashion-and helps save whales-at Buffalo Exchange for Earth Day 2009.
Not only can you find hip, interesting clothing and accessories at this chain of resale stores, but their Dollar Day sale will benefit Humane Society International (HSI) and The Humane Society of the United States (The HSUS). Sales from all items offered for $1 each will go to support our Save Whales-Not Whaling campaign, which motivates people and countries around the world to protect whales from the cruel, outdated practice of whaling. The only way to save these magnificent mammals is to stand up against the international forces threatening to weaken protections for whales. After all, whaling is SO last century, but you can help keep us in the battle against it!
There is no excuse for continuing to allow this barbaric and outdated practice, especially as other threats to whales such as pollution and climate change increase. It is time to declare a global whale sanctuary and make all the seas safe for whales. Join us in calling on world leaders to declare a global whale sanctuary so that all whales are protected from commercial hunting everywhere they feed, breed and migrate. No exceptions.
Anti-whaling activists involved in a collision with a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica accused whalers of using water cannon and acoustic weapons against them and vowed on Saturday to further obstruct the hunt.
The U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which Tokyo sharply rebuked after Friday's collision, also said whalers had thrown golf balls and chunks of metal at its ship the Steve Irwin.
"The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin continues to stand guard behind the Japanese floating abattoir called the Nisshin Maru, despite repeated assaults by frustrated and increasingly violent Japanese whalers," Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson said.
"The three Japanese harpoon boats are not in the area but the Sea Shepherd crew is prepared to obstruct them should they return," he said in a statement.
Japan's whaling fleet is in Antarctic waters for an annual hunt aimed at catching about 900 whales. Although Japan officially stopped whaling under a 1986 global moratorium, it continues to take hundreds of whales under a loophole allowing whaling for research purposes. Though most of the meat ends up in grocery stores and markets.
The Japanese-based Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) says the crew of the Steve Irwin twice rammed the Yushin Maru 3 in Antarctica.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has denied the claims.
Whale activists aim to hurt whalers in an attempt to make a stand. Idiots. Eye for an eye doesn't work. There you are throwing bottles at whalers, yelling from boat to boat about how wrong it is to brutally kill whales. Meanwhile Free Willy is watching from under the water and saying to himself "Look at these bloody idiots. I'm just trying to come up for some bleeping air and they've got their boats bumping together, throwing bottles around. Suppose one ends up in my air hole. What are they going to do then? Kill me?"
The group said it threw more than two dozen bottles of rotten butter - which has a rancid odor - onto the Japanese ship, as well as packets with an unspecified slippery chemical onto the deck to interfere with whale flencing.
Why don't they stick out their tongues and shout "your mama" jokes while their at it. Good grief. This my friends should be an example of how NOT to make as point.
After resuming commercial whaling just under a year ago, Iceland's fisheries minister said recently that his country will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until there's more demand for whale-derived products and until Iceland gets an export license to send whale meat to Japan. "There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product," fisheries minister Einar Guofinnsson said. "If there is no profitability there is no foundation for resuming with the killing of whales." This whaling season, Iceland's quota was 39 whales, but it harpooned just 14 due to low demand.
Personally I don't understand why whaling is necessary at all. And if it ever does become necessary there needs to be a less brutal way of it happening. I don't believe there will ever be so many whales that killing them will ever be the only way. This is how nature works folks, there are other ways in which whales die without a harpoon needing to be involved.
Despite the global outcry and a ban on whaling since 1986, Iceland, like Japan, continues to kill whales using cruel methods, claiming it must slaughter these majestic creatures in the name of science. But scientists have long agreed that there’s no need to kill whales in order to study them. Even worse, whale meat has been proven to contain dangerously high levels of mercury, even though it is sold in supermarkets, restaurants and even school cafeterias in Japan.
The U.N. Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) bans the international trade of all great whale species. Iceland was a member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) when the ban on commercial whaling went into effect in 1986.
The return to commercial whaling is a flagrant disregard for international agreements to protect whales.
You can take action by sending a letter to members of the Icelandic Embassy telling them to call off their first commercial whale hunt in twenty years.
Man, don't you just hate it when people have to go and mess up a good thing? I love sushi, not all of it, but a good bit of it. (Thanks to my brother and Ken and Kristina)
True World Foods, Inc. (TWF) is the premier sushi quality seafood distributor in the US. In 2006, TWF announced a new partnership with Kyokuyo Co. Ltd., a canned whale meat provider in Japan, to sell sushi in the US under the brand name "Polar Seas."
What is their problem? Why can't people just back off the whales!?
In all honesty I'm going to stop purchasing anything manufactured by TWF until they make sure they let their partners at the Kyokuyo Company they need to stop selling whale meat.
