100,000 Dolphins Are Illegally Murdered for Bait Each Year

[Bayard]

https://www.care2.com/causes/100000-dolphins-are-illegally-murdered-for-bait-each-year-this-must-be-stopped.html

Given how universally revered dolphins are, and the fact that humans rarely eat their meat, you’d be forgiven for assuming that dolphins are largely spared by the fishing industry. Alas, that’s not the case. As a new report finds, fishers hunt and butcher over 100,000 cetaceans (a classification that includes dolphins, porpoises and tinier whales) each year, a number that’s been steadily growing in the past couple of decades.

We’re not talking about dolphins accidentally getting caught up in nets – this is a deliberate attempt to capture them so they can be chopped up as bait. When the cetaceans are pulled on to the boat, they’re generally stabbed with harpoons and knives and then left to die, so the suffering is intense.

[blugbox]

1. This sort of thing breaks my heart

I m so disappointed in our species. The potential for greatness is there, but why are so many human minds evil and destructive?

I want to respond more and express my utter impotent rage at what we are... i just can't find any of the words. I know this response is nonsense, but I just hope one day we can elevate ourselves as a species beyond cruel brutal behaviors such as this.

Ugh

[Duppers]

2. Your response is perfect.

It was excellent! And, of course, I agree. I have such utter contempt for such insensitivity and lack of compassion.

[Bayard]

3. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish...

Dolphins are smarter than most humans.

[Duppers]

5. It seems so!

[Duppers]

4. A petition to sign...

Last edited Mon Aug 13, 2018, 11:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Linked from the site.
Sign the petition: Call on the Peruvian government to put a stop to dolphin hunting. 

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/103/306/410/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo

Thanks, Bayard, for bringing the horrible practice to our attention. Too many humans don't grasp the fact that these mammals are sentient and extremely intelligent.


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