Fwd: 2 whaling videos - one to make you laugh, one to make you act

[Guest guest]

Message from Anthony Marr, founder, Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE):

 

Dear Americans, Asians, Australians, Canadians, Europeans and New

Zealanders:

 

Below are two videos about something that may or may not have

concerned you. It is about whaling. If it does not currently concern

you and has never concerned you, I challenge you to watch the

following two videos, and still feel at ease with yourself to sit back

and continue doing nothing about it.

 

The first video addresses " scientific research " as an excuse for what

in truth is commercial whaling by Japan, which kills 1,500-2,000

whales of at least six species (Minke, Fin, Sperm, Sei, Bryde's and

Humpback) every year. It features an Australian journalist asking the

Japanese ambassador whether the Australians could kill a few Japanese

people in order to understand the Japanese people better. I challenge

you to not laugh out loud when you see it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduXrLTIc6Q & mode=related & search=

 

Now that you've had your laugh, it's time to get serious. The second

video is Reality TV at its most graphic. You will probably cry. I

didn't cry because as a child I was trained not to. But I'm doing

something about it, and I ask you to do the same.

 

It is very simple.

 

1. Open your local Yellow Pages to " Automobile - Dealers " .

 

2. Call and/or write each Japanese car dealer saying that you will not

buy a Japanese automobile for as long as Japan persists with whaling.

 

3. Pass this on.

 

That's it.

 

If people from every city do this, the head offices of Toyota and

Honda and Subaru will hear about it - an international boycott against

Japanese products - and they will in turn notify the Japanese

government about it.

 

We have tried demonstrating in front of Japanese consulates and

embassies, on grounds of cruelty and conservation, but the only thing

they can understand, or pay attention to, is economics.

 

This strategy is to pit huge Japanese industries against the small,

lingering, whaling industry. If we all do it, there should be no contest.

 

The montrous cruelty aside, whale and dolphin meat is overloaded with

toxins like mercury, dioxins and PCB. In order to sustain the whaling

industry, the Japanese whale meat industry is labeling supermarket

whale meat as " health food " . In order to create a new generation of

whale meat consumers, the Japanese government is feeding toxic whale

meat to young children in their elementary school lunch programs.

 

The harpooned whale in Video #2 took longer than the

7-minute-footage-itself to die. Please give the whales at least 7

minutes of your time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yao1J1-WLg & mode=related & search=

 

If because of the above description you would not even watch Video #2,

that's okay, as long as you do something.

 

Video #2 is not perfect. Japan kills one thousand whales in the

Antarctic Ocean every year, not 3,000. But one is one too many. Also,

it mentions Greenpeace and not Sea Shepherd, but is not about

organizations. It is about whales, about whaling, and about ourselves.

 

Anthony Marr, founder

Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)

www.HOPE-CARE.org

see " Anti-Whaling " section.