Due to issues I had self publishing my book FROGMEN, using an Amazon service (CreateSpace), I've had the opportunity to get to know some of Jeff Bezos' team. I've shared this message below with them, expressing the concern that so many of us have about whaling, and that Amazon should take down all related products. - RichardOn Feb 20, 2012, at 9:22 PM, MalcolmB wrote:(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
Sickener: Whale burgersAmazon
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.
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