Stop the Dolphine Slaughter

On Wednesday 20th September 2006, an international day of protest has been organised to speak out against the annual slaughter of dolphins in Japanese waters. Across the globe, thousands of concerned citizens will gather outside Japanese embassies to take part in a peaceful demonstration against the continuation of these hunts.

Every year, over 20,000 dolphins and small whales are killed in 'drive' hunts and in recent years, these hunts have increasingly come under international scrutiny, prompting concern from bodies such as the International Whaling Commission (IWC), on both welfare and conservation grounds. In the last 20 years, over 400,000 small cetaceans have been killed in Japanese waters.

During the drive hunts dolphins and small whales are rounded up using boats and driven into shallow water where they are killed for their products. During the annual hunt in Taiji and Futo, most of the dolphins are stabbed and slashed on the spot, before being loaded onto trucks, sometimes still conscious, to be processed into meat and fertiliser. Young dolphins are 'saved' and sold on to captive marine mammal facilities in Japan and abroad - destined for a life of misery. Many fisherman have admitted that they would not continue the drive fisheries if it were not for the high prices offered by the captivity industry for wild dolphins. For more information please visit http://www.earthisland.org/saveTaijiDolphins/

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[wingchan411]

Human is no needs to kill any animals. Please be vetgetarian!

[bayarea6100]

Same culture of eating marine mammals in European. The porpoise , sea animal of the dolphin family are popular food in 15th-18th Century.There r many recipes of porpoise (even for the King) from West Europe.

[laos85]

i never think that japan ppl a any smart, they dumb as a prick, and we cant just kill anything on earth, cows pigs and chickens and others for eating, is enough, i hate how stupid human act like they owned this world, and its also a world for animal to live.

[TigerLn]

no, u should hate japs, they'r evil ppl.

[solarcycles]

Indo-pacific Humpback Dolphins, or Chinese White Dolphins have all disappeared.

Humans have eaten them to extinction. Fox New just reported today, 08/8/07.

Its all over the world news now. I am very sad today. I really hate myself for being a human.

[homeotv]

FUk ALL WHALE AND DOLPHIN EATERS. DROP SOME MORE BOMBS ON JAPAN!!

[jknightglfr]

unlimited497, so by your logic...

It is okay for 1 person to kill another person just because not everyone else is doing it?

Please!

Just because not everyone kills dolphins and not everyone eats dolphin doesn't mean it's not happening and it certainly doesn't make it right.

[unlimited497]

Just because some people in japan kill dolphins doesn't mean everyone in japan kill dolphins.