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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:27 AM Oct 2013

Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Town Is Opening a Marine Park...

(NEWSER) – Taiji, the dolphin-slaughtering Japanese town documented in The Cove, has no plans to end its annual dolphin hunt ... but it is opening a super-fun-sounding amusement park, where you can swim with the dolphins and then stop by a food stand and chow down on them. "This is part of Taiji’s long-term plan of making the whole town a park, where you can enjoy watching marine mammals while tasting various marine products," an official explains to AFP. Whale meat will also be on offer.

Taiji, where hunters round up dolphins, sell some to aquariums and marine parks, and kill the rest for meat, has come under quite a bit of scrutiny following the documentary. But the 69-acre marine park, set to open within five years, will help the town to keep the controversial hunt alive by drawing in tourists, the official says. Environmental activists, not surprisingly, are calling the plan exploitative, the Telegraph reports.

http://www.newser.com/story/175473/japans-dolphin-slaughter-town-is-opening-a-marine-park.html

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Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Town Is Opening a Marine Park... (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2013 OP
What a bunch of assholes get the red out Oct 2013 #1
"Perverse" is the word that comes to mind. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2013 #2
Sick bastards - every last one of them. Nihil Oct 2013 #3

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
1. What a bunch of assholes
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 11:04 AM
Oct 2013

They have yet to achieve sentience, the Dolphins are already there. Pity. Humans tend to be sickening.

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
3. Sick bastards - every last one of them.
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 07:25 AM
Oct 2013

Yet any negative comment upon their disgusting behaviour gets alerted as "racist".

> Taiji, the dolphin-slaughtering Japanese town documented in The Cove, has no plans to end
> its annual dolphin hunt ... but it is opening a super-fun-sounding amusement park, where
> you can swim with the dolphins and then stop by a food stand and chow down on them.
> "This is part of Taiji’s long-term plan of making the whole town a park, where you can enjoy
> watching marine mammals while tasting various marine products," an official explains to AFP.
> Whale meat will also be on offer.

They are sick in the head.

I am not wishing any violence to the people responsible but I would most definitely
celebrate if the town were to be wiped out by a suitably powerful act of Nature.

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