This story is all over the news. Iceland has resumed murdering whales, calling the atrocity "whaling," as if historical murdering of whales qualifies the behavior as other than criminal.
The whale that was killed this weekend, aside from being a 'red list' endangered Fin Whale, according to reports, suffered horribly.
Besides the fact the Fin whale is being carefully monitored for being near to eradicated, this whale has a brain that weighs in at 15 lbs, a frontal lobe at least as developed as homo spapiens, a six-phase neocortex (same as homo sapiens), and twice the number of brain folds as us. All of these are indicators of potential intelligence and capacity.
There is every indication that the fin whale is at least as intelligent as any land-based human, yet one was murdered this weekend to sell and eat.
How there is any doubt that two separate species of homo sapiens now occupy the planet earth - one remarkably more similar to our simian ancestors - is beyond me.
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http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17782&aid=7634
Here's the link to the petition from the IFAW. Sign it, please, and pass it along.
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