Sea Shepherd - Susan Sarandon "Save the Dolphins"

A public service announcement from film star Susan Sarandon in a plea to stop the dolphin slaughter in Japan and also world wide. Includes information on how you can help stop this cruel, barbaric practise.

How They Kill

The fishermen in villages like Taiji, go out in small boats to known dolphin migratory routes. Positioning their boats strategically, they space out to form a line and wait for the dolphins. When the dolphins arrive, the fishermen drop long metal pipes into the water, and by banging on the pipes they create a wall of sound. The sound interferes with the dolphins' ability to navigate - it disorients and panics them. The dolphins swim away from the sound, and the fisherman maneuver their boats herding them into a small shallow bay. Once in the bay, nets are drawn across the mouth of the bay to keep them penned in.

The fishermen usually injure a few of the captive dolphins with a spear thrust or a knife slash - dolphins will not abandon these wounded family members.

Trapped in the shallow water, the dolphins mill about trying to stay as far from land as possible until the next morning. In the morning, the fishermen draw the nets in, forcing the dolphins closer to shore where they kill them by stabbing and slashing them with knives and hooks. The dolphins thrash about for as long as six minutes each as they slowly bleed to death, turning the sea literally red with their blood.

After the massacre, the bodies of the dolphins are taken to a slaughter house to be butchered. The meat is severely contaminated but is sold without warnings in supermarkets in Japan - supermarkets often owned by US and European chains.

Japan Illegally Kills Small Whales

Japan is a member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). In 1986, the IWC's moratorium on the killing of whales went into effect. Under the terms of the IWC, Japan is permitted to kill a limited number of whales under the "scientific research" exception. This "scientific research" exception is, in reality, simply a loophole which Japan exploits in order to kill whales for commercial consumption, but Japan is not permitted to kill any other whales protected by the IWC.

Observers have seen the fishermen at Taiji slaughtering entire pods of small pilot whales. That is a wholesale violation of the provisions of the International Whaling Commission and is plainly illegal. It is simply ignored by the Japanese government.

For more information on our Dolphin campaign please visit our Taiji Dolphin home page;
http://seashepherd.org/taiji/

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NEWS: POISON WHALE & DOLPHIN MEAT

"Japanese officials announced laboratory test of cetacean meat at a press conference. "We tested meat samples bought at the Gyoko supermarket in Taiji & Super Center Okuwa in the city of Shingu' Japan Times said. Dolphin meat had mercury content 10 TIMES above Japan Health Ministry's advisory limit of 0.4, while the methylmercury content was 10.3 TIMES over the ministry's limit of 0.3 ppm. Other meat samples found 16x & 12x above Human limits."

(9 hrs ago)

[jumpyduck]

why?

[fatguyonthc]

What country is the only one to have been nuked? I wonder why that is?

[Supersweetpezgirlie]

susan is awesome! I love her :D

[xXKitsumaskXx]

go cleaN your room kid...

STFU¡¡¡

[hogsonquads]

Piss on dolphins! Dinner sounds good tonight!!! DOLPHINS for dinner tonight kids come and eat!!

[BradipoTerror]

i cant watch this video

seen it yesterday! lets chat GU

[EldaSky]

I love dolphins and whales so much,it hurts to see them being killed.=[

[Animals9809]

Yes thats right SAVE THE DOLPHINS STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!!

[linhcba]

Very few everyday citizens speak out about such atrocities against animals such as dolphins, and kudos to Susan Sarandon for caring enough about nature and the environment to make this public announcement.