250 dolphins are being held captive in a cove on the coast of Japan,

[Ichingcarpenter]

Over 250 dolphins are being held captive in a cove on the coast of Japan, waiting for either a life in captivity, or slaughter.
The bottlenose dolphins, including one young and very rare albino dolphin worth millions, will be kept until the brutal selection process of the aquarium industry begins on January 18.

Those that aren't taken to perform in shows will either face death by spear, or a gory corral back into the sea with their community much thinner and a lot weaker.








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[PearliePoo2]

1. There aren't enough expletives for this.

I weep for all the dolphins and whales that are slaughtered by the Japanese.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. most will be killed for meat

Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins have been rounded up by Japanese fishermen and taken into captivity for slaughter in a town infamous for culling and killing the mammals, according to US conservationists.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said a pod of more than 250 dolphins including babies, juveniles and a rare albino calf had been driven into a cove in Taiji, in south-east Japan.

It said it was the largest pod to be driven into the cove in several years. Pictures uploaded to Facebook show the captured dolphins swimming in circles in shallow waters. Sea Shepherd is using the hashtag #tweetfortaiji to raise awareness on social networks.

The society said most of the pod faced slaughter for human consumption, with the meat likely to fetch millions of dollars. A few would be sent to captivity in marine parks, it said.



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/dolphins-japan-taiji-cove

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. ......

[0rganism]

12. saw a documentary about this recently, the meat they got was full of mercury

The dolphin meat wasn't exactly a hot seller in the grocery store, so the dolphin killers tried to give it away to local schools. Many of the kids who ate the meat became very sick with lasting brain disorders.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/05/japan.justinmccurry

[redqueen]

4. It's not "the Japanese", there are Japanese people who are against this practice.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/09/25/taking-ownership-one-japanese-protestors-fight-against-slaughter-cove

It is the industries which profit from shows or products that are brutalizing and killing these animals.

[PearliePoo2]

5. Yes, it is the Japanese.

Where is this happening?
Who is doing it?

[sulphurdunn]

11. Then you are also, though virtually powerless,

responsible for every evil done in or in the name of the United States. We don't slaughter innocent whales and dolphins for money. Slaughtering people is a different matter.

[SomethingFishy]

21. Wow .. Seriously?

You must carry a lot of weight, what with all the guilt from the mass shootings, the invasion and occupation of foreign nations, the destruction of the American workforce, the near economical collapse and the subsequent TARP bailout, that you as an American caused.

[B2G]

2. Barbaric. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. SeaWorld & co, WAZA and IMATA and Their Collaboration with the Dolphin Slaughter in Japan

On August 27, 2012, SeaWorld LLC quietly applied for a permit to import the 6-year-old Pacific White-sided dolphin named Kirara for public display at SeaWorld San Antonio. Kirara was born on May 3rd, 2006 in Kamogawa Seaworld in Japan.

Kamogawa is just another entertainment-through-slavery facility of which Japan alone has more than 50, mostly ‘stocked’ with animals stolen from the wild. This particular place for instance houses the Orcas Bingo and Stella captured in Iceland, three Belugas captured in Canada and Russia, and Bottlenose, Common, Risso’s and Pacific White-sided dolphins originating from the wild.

Two Orcas that together with Lolita were abducted from the Salish Sea in the infamous Penn Cove capture on August 8, 1970 ended up and died in Kamogawa Seaworld within 4 years of that dreadful day.

This is also the place where the wild-caught False Killer whale, renamed Sirius, was exported from and into the US in 1990. Sirius later died in Sea Life Park Hawaii in 1996.

Last year SeaWorld San Diego took a Pilot whale named Argo from the same park. The animal reportedly stranded itself in January 2004.

Argo was, according to local news agencies, transported by a FedEx plane. The Pilot whale transport took a horrendous 20 hours from pool to pool. The estimated time for Kirara is 22 hours.

The triumvirate of SeaWorld, Kamogawa Seaworld and the Japanese drive ‘fisheries’ is a long-standing one.

John Hall PhD., former marine biologist at SeaWorld in the documentary, Fall from Freedom:

‘Starting in the early 80s SeaWorld, which had developed a business relationship, and a professional relationship with the Kamogawa Seaworld in Japan, had learned that it might be possible to enter into a business arrangement with the Iki Island fishermen who had largely phased out the drive fisheries because of the negative worldwide publicity in the late 70s, to start selectively driving dolphins including False killer whales into shallow water where SeaWorld, and other oceanaria including Marine World, could select the beautiful few…

…and then allow the fishermen to slaughter the remaining whales…


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/dolphins-japan-taiji-cove

[Beaverhausen]

7. The documentary called "The Cove" was based on this practice

http://www.thecovemovie.com/

[superpatriotman]

8. K&R

This will come back to haunt mankind one day

[Brigid]

9. Where do I go to resign from the human race?

[Wolf Frankula]

13. I told Heinz and Rudi about this

They told me that they couldn't afford to fly to Japan, or those dolphins would be free, and there would be some dead Japanese.

I believed them.

Wolf

[Rex]

14. Dolphin overlord calls flock home, says 'it is time'.

[NCarolinawoman]

15. This is on a par with corralling humans and torturing them to death

while all the other fenced in humans witness in horror and grieve. And they know darn well that they, too, will be quickly (or slowly?) included in this God-forsaken slaughter.

Dolphins care for each other, and play and grieve and sometimes SOMETIMES they care about other individual humans--the GOOD ones.

Too disgusting!!! Where are the Japanese activist groups!!!!!????? .

[napkinz]

16. kick

[napkinz]

17. Tamron Hall will be reporting on this any moment now on MSNBC

nt

[GRACIEBIRD]

18. This is stunning and shocking. It's a modern day Dolphin Concentration Camp

To the left they have the work camps and to the right they have the gas house.

[GRACIEBIRD]

19. Also a reminder of who we're speaking of...

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/dolphin-brains-compare-human-brains

[quote]Dolphin brains are pretty comparable to human brains; dolphins in many species have brains that are larger than ours. Humans only come out on top when you correct for differences in body weight. Even then, dolphins are typically second to us in terms of relative mass. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans have shown that dolphin brains -- in relation to their body size -- are about four to five times larger than any other animal of similar size [/quote]



These are NOT bluefin tuna...

[napkinz]

20. PLEASE SAVE THE JAPANESE DOLPHINS!!!

Last edited Tue Jan 21, 2014, 04:01 PM - Edit history (1)

http://savejapandolphins.org

https://www.facebook.com/pages/PLEASE-SAVE-THE-JAPANESE-DOLPHINS/122033837807467

[napkinz]

22. Support Ambassador Caroline Kennedy And The Dolphins

January 21, 2014
by Mark Palmer

http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/support-ambassador-caroline-kennedy-and-the-dolphins

Associate Director
International Marine Mammal Project
Earth Island Institute

Over a very hard weekend for the dolphins in Taiji, the new US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, spoke out for the dolphins.

Ambassador Kennedy, in response to news reports that as many as 250 bottlenose dolphins were trapped in the Cove and waiting to be slaughtered, sent out a tweet: "Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing.” She further added that the official position of the US government was to oppose the killing of dolphins.

The reaction from the Japanese government was unfortunately as expected. Mr. Yoshida Suga, the chief cabinet Secretary and a spokesman for the government, was asked about the US Ambassador’s opposition at a press conference.

"Dolphin fishing is a form of traditional fishing in our country," he replied. He then added ominously, "We will explain Japan's position to the American side."

Japan’s government explanations for their actions on whaling and killing dolphins are full of lies and bombast. They are not interested in discussing the issue, nor do they stick to traditional Japanese courtesy and diplomatic niceties.

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy needs to be supported in her position. The Japan government will obviously go over her head to protest to the Obama Administration and the US State Department. And there are factions in the Obama Administration who have been less than supportive of the U.S. position against Japan’s whaling.

As Jane Velez-Mitchell said on her program last night (which featured Ric O'Barry): “Right on, Caroline!”

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/01/20/dolphin-hunt-taiji-japan-cove

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Ric O’Barry and Earth Island’s Dolphin Project Team are seeking a meeting in Tokyo with Ambassador Kennedy and in December sent her materials including a copy of The Cove.

Send a message to the White House and to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging them to support Ambassador Kennedy and use their influence to end the Taiji dolphin hunts.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

http://contact-us.state.gov/app/ask/session/L3RpbWUvMTM5MDI4MjE1NS9zaWQvTFVUSDZWS2w%3D

You can send a message to the US Embassy in Japan thanking Ambassador Caroline Kennedy for opposing the Taiji dolphin drive hunts. You can encourage her to use her influence to help end the hunts.

http://japan2.usembassy.gov/e/info/tinfo-email.html

[flamingdem]

23. Great! k + r