Whale Hunting

Happy New Year to all of you!!
I am sending my Letter (sorry for being so late!) and I must apologise for not being able to attend lessons these next three weeks (I sprained my knee on the mountains)
Keep weel and see you soon. marifé

Dear Sir
I am writing to your magazine to support the UK's opposition to the resumption of commercial whaling on the grounds that this killing is cruel and no longer necessary.
The pro-whaling High North Alliance, insisting on the fact that there is no humane method of killing whales, thus justifying the use of explosive harpoons among other techniques, pointed to apparent inconsistencies in the policies of some anti-whaling nations. They drew comparisons between commercial whaling and recreational hunting, saying that the United Kingdom allowed the commercial shooting of deer without these shoots following the standards of British slaughterhouses, but said that whalers should meet these standards as a pre-condition before they support whaling.
The countries in this Alliance also stated that whaling is an essential condition for the successful operation of commercial fisheries and that whales put a heavy predatory pressure on commercial species of fish, which should be available for humans.
Recently the Chilean government promised to seek support from other countries to obtain a worldwide prohibition against whale hunting, and popular protests have taken place in front of the Japanese embassy in Chile against Japan's planned whale hunting in the Antarctic region.
Even though today some international organizations try to protect the whales, making reports to explain how important and endangered they are and trying to stop ships that hunt them to give them a chance to escape, it is obvious there is still a lot of work to reach this goal.
Yours sincerely,