Australian Government should protect anti-whaling protesters who forcibly disrupt whaling ships Hello adjudicator‚ negative team and time keeper. I am… the first speaker of the Affirmative team. I will cover the points of whaling‚ and the legalities in Australia that surround it. We the Affirmative team define the topic as: The Australian Government should protect and safeguard the anti-whaling protesters who’s main objective is to stop the illegal whaling‚ prove wrongdoing by the countries in
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Makah and Whaling Introduction During the past 30 years the whales gradually became the center of public attention and sympathy. Tourists watching the whales off the eastern coast of the United States and in the lagoons of California‚ were struck by their remarkable nature and behavior. At the same time‚ the number of most large whales continued to decline. Certainly whale hunting was rather indiscriminate since the Middle Ages‚ reaching a point where these mammals were in imminent danger
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people. It has also been studied that the brains of whales are developed which means they are intelligent creatures. Since centuries whales have been hunted down for their oil and meat. The process of killing whales for their meat and oil is called whaling. In the olden days only the slow moving whales were hunted. By the 17th century the demand for whale oil and meat rose and it wasn’t until the 18th century when a new hunting weapon was invented. Since harpoons were invented‚ fast paced whales like
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Whaling Countries all over the world hunt whales. People are killing whales‚ or whaling‚ commercially and for products. So many whales die‚ that they will soon become extinct. Some countries‚ according to www.abc.net.au‚ involved in whaling are Japan‚ Norway‚ Greenland‚ Russia‚ USA‚ Iceland‚ South Korea‚ Indonesia‚ Canada‚ and St. Vincent. www.wwf.org states whaling started since the 11th century to present day. According to www.hsi.org‚ over 1000 whales die a year. If nothing is
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Japanese Whaling: Legitimate Research or Inhumane Brutality? Thesis Statement: In order to prevent the permanent extinction of all whales in our future‚ we need to increase our knowledge about current whaling practices‚ and continue to vigorously fight against it until whaling has diminished. I. INTRODUCTION: We must put an end to whaling now II. Background information A. In 1986‚ the International Whaling Commission (WIC) enacted a moratorium on all commercial whaling. B. Since
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modern whaling debate is in no doubt a strenuous one. Whaling in itself has been around since as far back as 6000BC and countries such as Japan and Norway have developed into nations which revolve around a market for such cetaceans as whales and dolphins. In fact‚ in Taiji‚ a small town on the southern shores of Japan‚ over thirty percent of their annual economy is generated from a market oriented around whales and dolphins (Hanlon‚ The Whaling Debate Intensifies). However‚ the idea of whaling can be
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has been involved in the hunting and slaughtering of whales for food and other produce. Japan can trace their whaling history back hundreds of years‚ to when whales were driven into nets‚ harpooned repeatedly and then dispatched with either a long sword or a wooden plug driven into the blowhole. Dating as far back as 10‚000 B.C. indicate that even hand held harpoons were used for whaling in Japan. Japans Methods were not as humane as they are today‚ technology has come a far way over the centuries
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parts of the whales are used for essential materials. Most people believe that whaling should be illegal everywhere because it is destroying the population soon to be endangered ruining the food chain‚ however nothing on the whale is getting wasted in any way‚ so it is for survival. Big part of whaling is for the meat and food. They use the food for money and business or to feed their families. In the article‚ Whaling for food‚ a whale hunter in Japan stated in “ ‘We do not kill whales for fun‚ not
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Takatsuna Mukaiyachi Whaling should not be banned Recently‚ whaling is criticized and some organizations disagree with whaling‚ especially‚ Sea Shepherd strongly opposes whaling. Sea Shepherd website says‚ “ Sea Shepherd is an international not – for – profit organization‚ based in the United States with support from all over the world.” They say that their clients are the whales‚ sharks‚ dolphins‚ seals‚ turtles‚ sea bards‚ and fish‚ and in order to protect them‚ Sea
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Commercial whaling is not a very common controversy every one knows about but it really should be. There are a few main reasons whaling needs to be 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
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