In Defense of Animals protests Dolphin Slaughter September 25, Japanese Consulate

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Animal Advocates Converge at Japanese Consulate to Demand End to Cruel Dolphin Cull

Activists Worldwide Gather to Call for End to Annual Slaughter

Los Angeles, Calif.—Members of In Defense of Animals (IDA) will hold a demonstration Tuesday as part of a day of international protest against Japan’s slaughter of over 23,000 dolphins each year. Activists will demand a permanent end to the drive fisheries and the preservation of dolphins and whales as natural treasures:

When: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Japanese Consulate, 350 S. Grand Ave., Suite 1700

Every year in small towns along the Japanese coast, fishermen conduct drive fisheries to massacre tens of thousands of marine mammals in the most brutal ways imaginable. Pods of dolphins, porpoises, and small whales are driven into shallow bays, and then slaughtered using sharp spears and hooks. Some animals are left to slowly bleed to death literally turning the sea red while others drown, entangled in nets.

For more information or to view photos and video of the slaughter, please visit www.savejapandolphins.org and IDA’s Web site at www.idausa.org.

http://www.idausa.org/news/currentnews/nr_070924b.html



Hunger Strike Begins in Tokyo for the Children and Dolphins of Japan

Allison Lance will place her life on the line for children and dolphins in Japan. In an effort to protect both children and dolphins, Lance begins a hunger strike today in the heart of Tokyo to bring attention to a Japanese national crime and scandal. This American woman has travelled to Japan to mark World Dolphin Day by launching a personal protest against the killing of tens of thousands of defenseless dolphins that are in turn being fed to innocent Japanese school children despite the dangerously high levels of mercury in the dolphin meat.


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