AR-News: 'Stop Whaling', Animal Welfare Groups Urge World

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Mon Mar 8 21:43:12 EST 2004


OSLO (Reuters) - Saying that harpoons mean unacceptable cruelty in
slaughtering whales, animal welfare groups launched a global campaign on
Tuesday to outlaw hunts of the biggest creatures on the planet.

"There is no humane way to kill a whale," said Peter Davies,
director-general of the World Society for the Protection of Animals
(WSPA), among leaders of a coalition of 200 groups in 58 nations behind a
150-page report on whaling. 

full story:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=4523310&section=news

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