AR-News: (UK) A simple reason to stop whaling: it's cruel

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

142 organisations unite to highlight horrific impact of harpooning
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
09 March 2004 
Animal welfare groups from around the world presented a report on whaling 
yesterday that aims to take the argument back to basics: the cruelty of the kill.
The report, likely to be seen as one of the most significant contributions to 
the whaling debate for many years, is a detailed scientific study of how much 
violence is needed to slaughter the world's largest animals in the open ocean.





full story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=499374 
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