VERY disturbing video about Dolphin killing. I'm posting it in hopes that someone

[Maraya1969]

will know what to do to stop it.

Do NOT watch if you don't want to be upset. I'm still feeling sick about it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85srTdF5YXQ

[silverojo]

1. OMG, that's horrible

So is this video, about what's going on in Korea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNS3p0xOgs&NR=1

I'd suggest you search Google to find PETA's website, as I'm sure they're aware of (and trying to do something about) this horrible problem.

Thanks for caring.

[Maraya1969]

4. I competely forgot about PETA! Thanks silverojo. And thank you for caring too.

[ThomWV]

2. Something about that video rings untrue

I do not believe that video portrays common or current events. It rings untrue as anything like a common practice in my mind from the means of catch to its handling. In a country where beef cattle are massaged to improve the quality of the meat produced its difficult to understand that a carcase would be drug by chain down the road. Also, notice that the catch was inshore and the boats were of commercial size. For those of you who do not operate boats or fish in the salt you should know that running into other boats or running aground are very bad things to do. It just seems to me that what is shown must be an isolated event, it surely has nothing to do with an ongoing industry in Japan. If nothing else it would not be at all sustainable to harvest dolphins in nearshore waters - the reproduce too slowly to keep such a practice up for long without putting them extinct.

[Maraya1969]

3. Oh God I hope what you say is true.

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. this isn't that video

that some guy spams every video on youtube with in the comments section, is it?

[Maraya1969]

6. Yes it is and he was very annoying but I decided to just look. Is he supposed to be a fake?

[flvegan]

7. Looks like the Taiji dolphin slaughter

It's done for 3 reasons:

1. Pest control. Dolphins eat fish. Fisherman need the fish for their trade. Dolphins gotta go;
2. To supply restaurants and markets with dolphin meat;
3. To supply the captive dolphin industries.

It's a brutal, annual slaughter. Here's some info from Sea Shepherd:

Each year from October through March, in small towns across Japan, thousands of dolphins and small whales are confined and brutally killed. These slaughters take place in fishing towns including Taiji, Iki, Ito, Futo and Izu. During those months, Japanese fishermen herd whole families and pods of dolphins, porpoises and small whales into shallow bays and mercilessly hack them to death. Most of these small cetaceans are sold as meat in restaurants and stores, while some are destined for a life in captivity.

http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/

Great piece from HSUS on drive fisheries (what this is):

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/what_are_the_issues/drive_fisheries.html

[sandnsea]

9. Like PNW & sea lions

The sea lion population has proliferated like bunnies and they're eating the salmon, whose population has plunged. Fishermen are very angry and there are incidents where they fight with the sea lions to get them away from their salmon catch. Big problem. I'm worried we're going to see something like this Japanese slaughter if we don't find a solution.

[flvegan]

10. It's another reason that the seal hunt in Canada still occurs.

The pelts aren't worth enough to make it work. It's mostly about the seals being competition for the fishermen, though the seal population isn't like the sea lion population there. It's the overfishing by the humans that's screwed it all up.

[sandnsea]

11. All around bad management

We lost a ton of salmon a few years ago, when they shut off the water for the farmers. And they won't let some of these dams be restructured for the fish either. A lot of little problems are piling up into some major catastrophes.

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. This is unbelievably sad and inhumane...

"Dolphins never abandon wounded family members."
"These are benign and innocent beings, and they deserve better."

[aikoaiko]

12. Slaughtering animals is a messy business

I know that vegatarians will never see this as ok, but slitting throats and letting the heart pump the blood out is amazingly efficient low cost way of slaughtering animals.