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Related: About this forumAngry Japanese protesters demand a stop to indigenous dolphin hunting
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/24/angry-japanese-protesters-demand-a-stop-to-indigenous-dolphin-hunting/Angry Japanese protesters demand a stop to indigenous dolphin hunting
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 24, 2014 10:23 EST
Activists protesting against Japans indigenous dolphin hunting held a rally in Tokyo Friday, calling on officials to stop sales of the marine mammals to aquariums and as meat.
Some two dozen campaigners, mostly Japanese, congregated in front of the Fisheries Agency with banners and pictures, urging the government to ban dolphin catching.
Most Japanese people do not know about dolphin hunting, said Noriko Ikeda, who organised the rally and a member of Action for Marine Mammals.
The government has argued the practise is part of the Japanese tradition and food culture.
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Angry Japanese protesters demand a stop to indigenous dolphin hunting (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jan 2014
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gejohnston
(17,502 posts)1. more power to them
too bad they don't have lobbyists in Tokyo.
hunter
(38,264 posts)2. Good.
Some traditions ought to be abandoned, especially when the culture is largely no longer "traditional."
There are plenty of things in our own culture like that. "Right to bear arms" is one. Sure, enjoy your eighteenth century firearms. But the guys who wrote our Constitution knew nothing of modern shotguns, automatic rifles, or handguns.
Modern gun violence and warfare were well beyond their worst nightmares.
notemason
(298 posts)3. Save the Dolphins
The government has argued the practise is part of the Japanese tradition and food culture."
Know people in mountains of Carolina who used to trap animals for a living. They evolved.