(The Mirror, UK)
Whale meat on sale on Amazon despite worldwide ban
Animal rights groups found 147 illegal items advertised including whale curry, whale bacon, whale stew and tinned whale hamburge
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Banned whale meat products are being sold openly through Amazon's online Marketplace.
Animal rights groups found 147 illegal items advertised including whale curry, whale bacon, whale stew and tinned whale hamburger.
Clare Perry, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: "By allowing vendors to sell whale products it is effectively helping to prop up a trade that should have been consigned to the history books."
An international moratorium on whaling has been in place since 1982.
Japanese vessels still track whales for scientific research purposes – but campaigners claim this is a cover for whaling.
Investigators found one company selling minke whale meat from Iceland, which opposes the ban.
The EIA and Humane Society International, which jointly carried out the probe, is calling for the public to petition Amazon to stop whale products being sold.
Director Mark Jones said: "The creatures slaughtered to produce the food products being sold on Amazon Marketplace will have endured a bloody and painful death."
Amazon Marketplace sellers pay a monthly fee and 10% commission on sales.
No one from Amazon was available for comment last night.
1 comments:
This article reminds me of a documentary "Hunting the Hunters". A brave group of Greenpeace activists heads to the Southern Ocean, Antarctica to risk their lives to prevent Japanese whalers from resuming their deadly trade.
To watch documentary please visit - http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/5974
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