Can someone please have a massive rant about why whale hunting should NOT be banned...

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Elle S

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...please? personally, i believe that whale hunting should be banned so please don't rant on about why it should :)
it's just i have this boiogy coursework about whether whale hunting should be banned or not and as i am saying it should be, i need an unreliable source (i.e. someones opinion) to say that whale hunting shouldn't be banned.
if you fancy doing me this massive favour could you please talk about how it doesn't affect the numbers of whale massively and they won't go extinct due to whaling, also how the tourist industry won't be affected as people will go and watch dolphins or something like that, and finally that it is not animal cruelty as the whale is killed instantly.
just rant on basically :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE BRILLIANT! :)
 
The whale watching industry and anti-whaling advocates argue that whaling catches "friendly" whales that are curious about boats, as these whales are the easiest to catch. This analysis claims that once the economic benefits of hotels, restaurants and other tourist amenities are considered, hunting whales is a net economic loss. This argument is particularly contentious in Iceland, as it has among the most-developed whale-watching operations in the world and the hunting of Minke Whales resumed in August 2003. Brazil, Argentina and South Africa argue that whale watching is a growing billion-dollar industry that provides more revenue and more equitable distribution of profits than commercial whaling by pelagic fleets from far-away developed countries would provide. Peru, Uruguay, Australia, and New Zealand also support proposals to permanently forbid whaling South of the Equator, as Indonesia is the only country in the Southern Hemisphere with a whaling industry. Anti-whaling groups claim that developing countries which support a pro-whaling stance are damaging their economies by driving away anti-whaling tourists.

Pro-whaling advocates argue that the economic analysis assumes unsustainable whaling by arguing that whaling deprives the whale-watching industry of whales, and counter that if whales are hunted on a sustainable basis, there is no competition between the two industries. Furthermore, they point out that most whaling takes place outside of coastal areas where whale watching takes place, and communication between any whaling fleet and whale-watching boats would ensure that whaling and whale watching occurred in different areas. Pro-whaling advocates also argue that whaling continues to provide employment in the fishery, logistic and restaurant industries and that whale blubber can be converted into valuable oleochemicals while whale carcasses can be rendered into meat and bone meal. Poorer whaling nations argue that the need for resumption of whaling is pressing. Horace Walters, from the Eastern Caribbean Cetacean Commission stated, "We have islands which may want to start whaling again - it's expensive to import food from the developed world, and we believe there's a deliberate attempt to keep us away from our resources so we continue to develop those countries' economies by importing from them.
 
It shouldn't be banned because:

The poor people that hunt, manufacture harpoons and boats would go out of business.

There'd be more water for us to swim in.

There won't be any more Free Willy films.

If we kill them all then fat people wouldn't have to be worried about being compared to whales.

Nobody really likes Welsh people anyway.
 
The only reason I could condone the killing of any animal, is if its on a small scale for survival purposes ONLY.
Not hunting -pleasure or profit

EG the inuits kill a few whales per year, they use every part, and appreciate the beast they killed, when it comes to whaling ships and how many barrels of oil and death for profit - im disgusted

China is despicable in killing rhinos for just the horn, sharks for just
the fins, and many other ancient beliefs that use rare species.
Yet they are suppose to be the wisest and oldest race on earth -
which is clearly rubbish

In this whole wonderful ubiverse and existance I hope we all have the chance to be be the prey and the killer, and understand the balance
 
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