Could it be (sadly), there is actually a case for culling whales, in order to maintain the health of the species?

The good news is, I saved $1k a year in cancelled subscriptions, over this very issue of incessant attack, in their pathetic publications on the ocean ecology... Bye bye Murdoch!

So, where's the photo evidence? If you are trying to convince people of your scare-mongering, you should use a format where you can produce these photographs.

Yes it is indescribably sad!

But not as sad as a 61 year old filipina war widow, with a serious heart condition, crouched over a bowl of herring sized tiddlers, (whale food) trying to sell enough to provide the costly medicine for her HIV positive daughter her two kids; an 18 year old daughter in "college" a euphemism for a licenced Philippine brothel?

Nobody will do more than turn a completely blind eye when emaciated former sex worker turns up dead in some dark and dingy third world alley, bludgeoned to death for failing to pay loan sharks, she turned to, to buy the EXPENSIVE medication needed to stay alive.

If only she could've been a sick whale with calves in tow. An organisation that covers the world in bleeding hearts, would have raised millions to ensure a decent burial!

But a former filipina "sex worker", probably got just what she deserved?

So also her two young orphaned daughters, now in the hands of a CHRISTIAN paedophile priest? And sold so their tiny naked bodies could appear in some nightmare video, where the end result is tiny wombs so damaged that any prospect of marriage replete with children is just history in an almost daily saga repeated around the impoverished third world.

All while we fat and well fed westerners (whales) sit around a great big feed of fish in a tasty fishermans basket, washed down with a couple of bottles fine red, telling the ether and the tele, tut tut it must be tough trying to live there where pensions are almost non existent. Ah well, nothing we can do about it!?

Or in some dingy room crouched over a laptop propped by an enormous erection, savouring the sick delights of a couple of 8 year old filipina twins being alternatively penetrated by a man with a phallus that would look less out of place on a horse!

Yes a sad whale of a tale that also needs an organisation that at least makes a token gesture of trying to help!
Alan B.

ttbn,

In the article at the relevant sentence about photo evidence, click on the word emaciation and scroll down to the fourth image.

Or see it here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427195/The-gentle-giants-graveyard-Eight-sperm-whales-washed-German-coast-mass-beachings-northern-Europe.html

There are many more examples in other photos, especially if you have livestock condition experience.

"Photo evidence of beached parliamentarians shows evidence of starvation, sunken eyes, less rounded body, emaciation and dwindling supplies of cabernet savignon"

Oh dear has the taxpayers teat suddenly dried up, or maybe the party hacks had set the poor things free on a 'hard release' programme ?

Meanwhile overnight on the streets of Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane someone's son or daughter scabbed through the rubbish bins for left over KFC and narrowly avoided being raped or seriously assaulted when they did finally find a vacant doorstep to sleep on.

This article is nearly incoherent. Whales have stranded themselves before and it was my understanding that pods of whales could all become stranded - but starving, seriously? The writer has built a case on very few facts. Has there been any major decline, overall, in wild catch fishing (as opposed to fish farming, which now makes up half of all aquaculture production)? Not that I'm aware of. Have any academics been warning about declines in whale populations - at least since wale hunting has mostly stopped (apart from the Japanese)? Haven't heard anything. I think we should ignore the article and move on.