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Iceland Resumes Whaling

The temporary halt to whaling has reached an end in Iceland and the government said it would allow 40 minke whales to be hunted, which has angered conservationists and animal advocates. "We hope that we will finish the 40-whale quota in the beginning of July if the market responds well to the meat, as we believe it will," said Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson, head of a minke whaling association.

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It is sad to see whales, God's animals, chased and hunted in a barbaric way for the sole purpose of selling their meat. Supporting this industry only perpetrates the practice of whaling, which certainly does not show compassion and mercy to these animal.