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Why Commercial Whaling was never really banned.
Post updated July 2020 On the 1st. July, 2019 Japan announced it was beginning commercial whaling again causing worldwide outrage and accusations of illegality. But tragically they had every right to do so as they had formally withdrawn from the international agreement not to hunt. The so called moratorium was only ever a gentleman’s agreement…
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Boxing Day Hunts still attract crowds & violence.
Boxing Day Hunts still attract the crowds, demonstrators and violence, but why? Sixteen years after hunting was banned the unnecessary Boxing Day Hunts gather and take place on the pretext of preserving rural tradition and these attract the inevitable controversy and conflict which has accompanied them since the Hunting Act 2004 was introduced. The Act was…