Guest guest Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 PLEASE CROSSPOST Marijo Gillis Saturday, March 27, 2004 9:41 AM Dolphin Hunting WAL-MART & TESCO - PLEASE CROSSPOST Please Cross Post Globally ---- Original Message ----- Mary Alice Saturday, March 27, 2004 04:15 WAL-MART & TESCO - PLEASE CROSSPOST A Project of The Humane Society of the United States and The Fund forAnimalshttp://www.humanelines.org/ ASK WAL-MART TO SEVER ITS TIES TO THE WHALING INDUSTRY:Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has business ties that link it to the cruel international whaling and dolphin hunting business. By purchasing a 37% stake in the Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu, Ltd.-a key distributorof whale and dolphin products in Japan-Wal-Mart has been unwittingly supporting the slaughter of thousands of whales and dolphins every year. Asone of Japan's leading supermarket chains, Seiyu's sales of whale and dolphin meat have been key in maintaining the Japanese whale and dolphin hunting business, despite worldwide opposition and an international ban oncommercial whaling. Whales killed by whaling ships can suffer prolonged agony, sometimes taking up to an hour to die after the initial grenadeharpoon explodes in their bodies. Dolphins killed in Japanese dolphin hunts fare no better; they are typically rounded up and driven by boats into theshore, where dolphin killers stab them with long knives or sever their spines to kill them. The recent 'dolphin drives' off the coast of Taiji,Japan earlier this year (see HUMANElines Issue 270<http://www.hsus.org/ace/19944> documented on film by activists, exemplified this cruelty graphically.WHAT YOU CAN DO:1. Contact Wal-Mart's president and CEO and politely ask him to use Wal-Mart's considerable corporate influence to stop the sale of whale,dolphin and porpoise products in all stores owned and operated by Seiyu, Ltd. Let him know that as long as supermarkets in Japan continue to sellthese products, the Japanese incentive to continue the slaughter willremain. Mr. H. Lee ScottPresident and CEOWal-Mart Stores Inc.702 SW Eighth StreetBentonville, Arkansas 72716Fax: 479-204-97982. Go to <http://www.care2.com/go/z/12559> to sign the online petitionasking Wal-Mart to sever its ties with the Japanese whaling industry.And please sign the other petition_______________Stop Tesco-owned supermarkets selling whale meat in Japan !Please - Sign The Petition !http://www.petitionthem.com/?sect=detail & pet=961Thank YOU-- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 7.0.230 / Virus Database: 262.6.2 - Release 26/03/04 Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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