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Who kills whales and why?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Japanese whalers they kill them for food or something like that sea shepherd say they are violating a thing on commercial whaling but the whalers say they are killing whales for scientific research both have the law on their side and they are fighting over it and sea shepherd is trying to stop whaling.

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