My newest petition is here. I’d really appreciate it if you could sign it and share it.
- My best petition stopped two hammerhead sharks from being enclosed in a stupid nightclub aquarium. It garnered 102,589 signatures after it was featured in the local news and I’m pleased to say that it worked!
- This petition “Re-educate Japanese people about whales!” highlighted the cultural differences between Wikipedia articles appearing in different languages (many Japanese people think whales are fish, okay). 68,104 signed it.
- Next up, this petition to stop Faroe Islanders eating puffins amassed 68,778 signatures. That’s more people than inhabit the Faroe Islands!
- This petition now has 64,839 supporters. Facebook is hopeless so they won’t do anything about it. It’s not my fault they are evil.
- This petition now has 48,653 supporters. GoDaddy encourages it, they don’t care. I just want to raise awareness about GoDaddy is all.
- Stefán Úlfarsson, Kristján Loftsson and Gunnar Bergmann Jónsson all got their own petitions with 51,548, 31,697, and 19,874 people jumping on board with us. The latter has said: “I’m never going to hunt whales again, I’m stopping for good”.
- There was the petition to tell Stedji not to make beer from whale testicles. It got 33,412 signatures. Even that number overwhelmed the small company (and that caught them by surprise). But like many Scandinavians they are stubborn when it comes to whales, so they continue to sell it (probably benefiting somewhat from the publicity WE gave them). Nevertheless, 33,412 signatures is 33,412 signatures. I tried. We tried.
- The humorous “Reinstate Pluto’s full planetary status!” petition ultimately got 32,520 signatures. Pluto remains being called “a dwarf planet” despite being a real planet (just a small one). Still, 30k+ signatures is a lot for a planet. With our permission, the petition was picked up by whalebone magazine.
- There was this petition to try to push Pepsi into making one-piece lids/bottles to prevent them ending up in marine life’s stomachs. While it obtained 29,375 signatures unfortunately the petition was a bit vague and offered no practical solutions. Obviously it would cost PepsiCo millions of dollars to change the way they bottle their drinks, so they didn’t do it. But my point is that the petition still gathered a fair bit of attention (when compared to the average one). And it planted the idea. Everything starts with an idea, right?
- There was this petition to tell McDonalds to stop selling plastic straws. It ended up with 17,570 signatures. Combined with pressure from a few other petitions, McDonalds phased out plastic straws across Australia in 2020. Yay!
- This petition to stop Sydney Tower restaurant selling crocodile sausages got 17,042 supporters (it worked).
- Lastly, some 15,582 people advocated sending one of our naval warships to intercept the Nisshin Maru whaling boat. Unfortunately that never happened. But it does show the Japanese that we are losing patience.
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