Stop Japanese Dolphin Slaughter

Stop Japanese Dolphin Slaughter

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June 11, 2010
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U.S. Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki and
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Started by Zacharias Affolter

sign a petition to end the cruel dolphin slaughter in Japan. Each year, Japan slaughters up to 23,000 dolphins each year. 

Eventually, with these untolerable rates, dolphins will go extinct. Can you imagine the world without dolphins? Not to mention, the global ecosystem will collapse. If that happens, we will run out of food, then, we die as well. SO, we can either seal our fate, and let nature's most beutifull suffer, only to hurt ourselves, or stop this nonsense, and prosper, WHO'S WITH ME!?!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
go to  for a video on what Japan does to innocent dolphins. View a vid about what Japan does to innocent dolphins (graphic content)Warning: The video is graphic.Viewer discretion is strongly advised. In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year.
In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. The water turns red with their blood, and the air fills with their screams.

This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more scandalous, members of the international dolphin display industry take advantage of the dolphin slaughter to obtain some few, show-quality dolphins for use in captive dolphin shows and dolphin swim programs.

It is commonly assumed that Japanese fishermen hunt dolphins to supply a small minority of Japanese people with dolphin meat. But unlike the expensive whale meat, dolphin meat is not considered a delicacy in Japan, and the real reason the Japanese government issues permits to kill dolphins by the thousands every year has nothing to do with food culture. It has to do with pest control. As shocking as it sounds, some Japanese government officials view dolphins as pests to be eradicated in huge numbers. During a meeting at Taiji City Hall, the fishermen of Taiji admitted this. "We don’t kill the dolphins primarily for their meat. We kill them as a form of pest control," they told us. In other words, killing the competition is their way of preserving the ocean’s fish for themselves.

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Decision Makers

  • U.S. Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki
  • Barack Obama
  • Kazutaka SangenMayor of Japan/ Wakayama Prefecture
  • Barack ObamaPresident of the United States