saying my good-byes

[Guest guest]

I am writing this to say good-bye to all my . First I

want to thank you all for all you have done in all the time I've been

apart of various . I am leaving today because I can no

longer use a service that invest their money in a company that helps

to sell something that is so awful and destroying our earth. It is

just a little part of my mission to save the sharks, thus save our

oceans, thus save our earth. I know many of the groups did not allow

my notice to go through because it isn't homeschoolingor " their " eco

related. The thing is in my household it is VERY homeschooling and

eco related. By doing this I am teaching my sons so much. I am

standing up for what I believe in, not looking the other way because

it is hard to do and showing them that one person can make a

difference. They also are helping me in my process of helping sharks

and the earth. I have learned so much since doing this and it has

amazed me how little most know about sharks because they just know

what they see in the media which is VERY misguided. You know a long

time ago people feared whales very much like how we fear sharks today

and now there is a moratorium on whaling so that gives me hope.

Finning is also very much like the Ivory trade before it became

illegal. In that case they killed elephants for just their tusk and

in this case they kill sharks for just their fins and with people

speaking out maybe one day finning will be illegal as well. So on

the anniversary of Jaws I am leaving .

 

Below I'm putting a piece I wrote that explains a little more about

my mission. Thank you all for everything and I will see you around.

I may be leaving , but I'm not leaving the groups, just will be

getting my info in different ways including Google groups.

 

Time to lift the rug

Most people's only view of the ocean is from the beach. It is like

the ocean is a huge rug hiding everything below it. This makes it

very easy for horrible things to happen in our oceans because people

are very visual and if they can't see what is happening they can

easily put it out of their minds. Now if you keep sweeping

everything under the rug you know it doesn't go away it is just a

huge mess with a rug on top of it. Now when things like this happen

on land we stop it because we can see what we are doing.

Unfortunately by the time we see what we are doing to our oceans if

we keep up this attitude it could be too late.

 

The ocean is something that I am very passionate about and sharks are

my main passion. Every year we kill more than 100 million sharks for

mostly their fins. This is a horrible, grisly practice where sharks

have their fins removed a lot of times while they are still alive and

then thrown back into the ocean to either drown or bleed to death.

Most of the time this is done by long lines. Long lines are about 60

miles of line that have around 16,000 hooks on it. This does not

just catch sharks. It catches all types of other fish, turtles,

seals, birds and just about anything that may be curious about it.

So imagine a 60 mile line through a forest that has about 16,000

traps on it. When you get to the traps you witness dead and injured

animals of all kinds, birds, deer, wolves, bear, rabbits and on and

on. Now the hunters only want the deer and rabbits so all the others

are thrown away, trash. This would never be able to happen in our

forest because no one would allow it. Most would be horrified at

such a site, yet we allow this to happen everyday in our oceans.

 

Most people fear sharks because they do not understand them or only

know what learn from the news and media. If you stopped and learned

a little about them you would realize they have far more to fear from

us then we do from them. There are over 450 different species of

sharks and out of that 201 of them are on the red list according to

the World Conservation Union. Sharks are the most threatened species

on our planet.

 

Sharks were here before the dinosaurs. Actually 150 million years

before the dinosaur. They helped create this planet. They are what

helps keep our oceans healthy and we are dependant on our oceans for

so many things. We get 70% percent of our oxygen from the ocean, it

regulates our climates and helps to heat most of the planet. Without

sharks are oceans will never be the same and I hate to think what

would happen.

 

So now it is time to lift that rug. We need to see what we are doing

so we can stop it and in doing this help save our planet and

ourselves. By public pressure people were able to get the

International Moratorium of Whaling in 1986. People use to actually

be just as afraid of whales as they are of sharks now, but by

learning more they realized how wrong they were. Now it is time to

help save the sharks. Never buy any shark products. Actually,

sharks have a very high mercury level so if you are using shark

products you are doing yourself more harm than good. Boycott all

companies that either sell shark products or have their money in

companies that sell shark products such as who are 40%

shareholders to the largest marketer of shark fins. Also write, let

yourself be heard that we will no longer remain blind to what we are

doing to our oceans. WE CAN ALL LIFT THIS RUG

TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Michelle Clay

myspace.com/seablueturtle

 

is a 40% shareholder with the largest online marketer of shark

fins in the world. Over 100 million sharks are killed a year for

their fins alone. It's time to let companies like know that it

does matter where you invest your money, it's time to leave

http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_071004_1.html

 

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