Just read an article on the Times Online website regarding Photographs being published showing a Mother and a Calf whale dead on the slipway of a Japanese Whaling ship.

I am not a vegetarian, or a vegan. I personally found maintaining a strictly vegetarian diet to be quite difficult. However, neither do I believe in cruelly killing any animal. I'm in a quandry. I've come to a necessary compromise. I try not to eat too much meat, and would not dream of ever hurting an animal intentionally, except in an act of extreme self defence.

Whales are beautiful creatures, graceful, and majestic. Most people who listen to whalesong are moved by it's sheer emotion. Why kill them? The article refers to "indiscriminate killing" rather than "scientific culling" - SCIENTIFIC CULLING?? What is scientific about killing an animal to learn how it works? Perhaps it would be easier to learn about them by watching them, from a distance. When they are all gone, all the "scientific culling" will have been for nothing.

So please, just stop Killing unnecessarily.

Cheers

Bearcub