Controversial anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's blood-soaked new campaign that depicts a man being harpooned to prove hunting the animals is inhumane
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- Sea Shepard have released a graphic campaign video against whaling
- Actor David Field convincingly acts as if he has been hit with a harpoon
- The video breaks down the harpooning process with gruesome detail
A
marine conservation group have released a graphic video depicting a man
being shot in the back with a harpoon, emulating the tactic that has
been used to slaughter thousands of whales.
Australian actor David Field, known for his roles in Chopper, Two Hands and The Rover, stars in the Sea Shepherd's campaign video titledThe Ultimate Death Scene.
'If
this cruel and cold-blooded practice were to happen to humans, the
perpetrators would be jailed immediately,' the talented actor said as he
is seen writhing in pain, with crimson blood trickling from his lips.
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Australian actor David Field, known
for his roles in Chopper , Two Hands and The Rover , stars in the Sea
Shepards graphic campaign video titled The Ultimate Death Scene
The powerful video focuses on four main aspects of whaling: The Chase, The Harpoon, The Drag and The Death.
According
to Sea Shepherd, once a whale is located they are 'pursued to the point
of exhaustion' before they are 'shot with an explosive harpoon causing
massive internal trauma'.
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They are then 'violently dragged into a vessel' and shot again before the whale eventually dies in a pool of its own blood.
Adam
Burling, spokesperson for Sea Shepherds said if people are disturbed by
this video then they should be disturbed by whaling.
The Harpoon: Field's is shot in the back with a harpoon and screams as he falls to the floor
The talented actor can then be seen writhing in pain, with crimson blood trickling from his lips
The Drag: Fields desperately scratches his fingernails against the hard floor as he is pulled by an imaginary force
'This issue need to be discussed so we can see an end to whaling,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'It
is a barbaric, outdated process that is completely unnecessary and with
this campaign we wanted to communicate the horror of what happens.
David did a very good job dramatizing that.'
Mr
Burling said the video is getting a 'huge response' with over 50,000
views in only a few short hours, despite its graphic nature.
'It
is graphic but the thing is, our crew experience these things first
hand, there are very few people who witness a whale being slaughtered
but we are one of them.
'Sea
Shepherds have been in the Antarctic for over a decade and we have
watched the harpoon go into the head of the whales. We have watched them
be dragged up the slipway and carved up.'
Since the International Whaling
Commission enacted a moratorium on commercial whaling, Iceland, Norway
and Japan have slaughtered more than 25,000 of the whales, including
Humpback's and Fin whales, for 'scientific research
The whales are 'violently dragged into a vessel' and shot again before the mammal eventually dies in a pool of its own blood
'It is a barbaric, outdated process
that is completely unnecessary and with this campaign we wanted to
communicate the horror of what happens'
He
said since the International Whaling Commission enacted a moratorium on
commercial whaling, Iceland, Norway and Japan have slaughtered more
than 25,000 of the whales, including Humpback's and Fin whales, for
'scientific research'.
'Japan
wants to return to whaling in the Southern Ocean under the guise that
they are performing scientific research, but the science has been thrown
out by the International Court of Justice. It has been proven that
there was almost no scientific research undertaken,' he said.
'Now
they are adding that it is their cultural right because their
indigenous population used to hunt whales off the coast. Well, it is not
their cultural right to travel thousands of kilometres, in breach of
international law, to kill these animals.
'That is a bit of a stretch,' Mr Burling added.
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