Whaling And The Great Chain Of Being

EDM number 1181 in 1989-90, proposed by Tony Banks on 26/06/1990.

That this House expresses its extreme concern at the pressure being brought by Japan, Norway and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to end the world moratorium on commercial whaling; believes that the conservation of whales is far more important than the narrow economic interests of any nation or group; considers that whales are too high a life-form to be hunted, killed and served on plates in restaurants to people who are probably less intelligent and less significant in the Great Chain of Being than the creatures they eat; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government and all like-minded governments to oppose most vigorously any attempts at the International Whaling Commission to re-commence commercial whaling and to propose that, should any country leave the International Whaling Commission in order to kill whales, appropriate sanctions be adopted against them.

This motion has been signed by a total of 50 MPs.