Sunday, September 13, 2009

Dolphin Slaughter

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In Japan, there is a very small, villiage-like fishing town calle Taiji.  This town may seem like any other smalll tight-knit community. This is the place its local community calls home.  But to me, this village is home to one of the most inhumane fishing practices on this planet.  They don't hunt just any kind of "fish", oh no. Taiji is one of the largest dolphin and whale fishing villiages around.  I don't think this practice should even be considered "fishing".  The way they hunt down and slaughter these beautiful animals makes me cringe at even the thought of it.  They hunt these creatures down, trap them in the cove, and then vastly begin their blood-thirsty frenzy.  They slit their throats, bash their heads in, brutally stab them with their harpoon spears.  Sounds like your basic fishing game right?  Wrong. Miles away back on the shore of Taiji, the screams and cries of these animals can be heard by nearly everyone.  Please help stop this horrible tradition.  Follow this link to find ways you can help : http://www.savejapandolphins.org/.

1 comment:

  1. Crazy Dolphin Eaters! Japan will get there's in the form of TOXIC CHEMICALS....

    More than 16,000 Dall's porpoises are killed in hand-thrown harpoon hunts in northern Japan. A further 2,000 dolphins are driven into shallow coves and slaughtered for their meat.

    The Dall's porpoise is known for its tendency to ride the bow of boats making it popular with whale watching tourists. Hunters target nursing porpoises leaving the dependent calves to starve.

    Globally, small cetaceans are under increasing threat from direct hunting, entanglement in fishing gears, over-fishing of prey species and pollution.

    Dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered in their thousands in Japanese water, and unlike the larger whales, this secret slaughter continues with little being done to stop it. Even the Japanese public are largely unaware that these appallingly cruel hunts are taking place.

    People in Japan are unwittingly buying and eating dolphin and porpoise meat. We are demanding that Japan takes dolphins and porpoises off the menu.

    Tested meat has found dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals. Town councillors in the dolphin-hunting centre of Taiji have called for a ban on the use of dolphin and whale meat in school lunches because of the toxins.

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