Infamous Japan Town on Verge of Mass Dolphin Slaughter

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/18



More than 250 dolphins, including mothers and young babies, rounded up for enslavement or death in village made notorious in film 'The Cove'

Infamous Japan Town on Verge of Mass Dolphin Slaughter
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Saturday, January 18, 2014 by Common Dreams

Conservationists stationed in Taiji, Japan are trying desperately to sound the alarm over more than 250 bottlenose dolphins who have been rounded up for capture or slaughter in the seaside village made infamous in the documentary film, "The Cove."



Dolphin hunters off Taiji in 2010.

According to The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which uses staff and volunteers—known as Cove Guadians—to monitor "Taiji's infamous killing cove," the pod of rounded up dolphins is the largest they've seen in several years.

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Local fishermen who kill the animals for their meat and dolphin hunters looking to sell them to entertainment parks or aquariums corralled five separate pods of dolphins—which reportedly included "babies, juveniles and a rare albino calf"—into the cove on Friday.

Some dolphins have already been taken out of the water for capture (with some dying in the process), while a large-scale slaughter is feared on Sunday. Activists with Sea Shepherd said the dolphins "face a violent and stressful captive selection process. Babies and mothers will be torn from each other's sides as some are taken for captivity, some are killed, and others are driven back out to sea to fend for themselves."

[Nihil]

1. Scum. (n/t)

[stuntcat]

2. Shame

wish I could tell all the animals I'm sorry for what humans will do to them, ALL of them. It's so sick and sad. The fact so many of us still think we're God's favorite species just proves how F'ed up we are, we're a self-worshiping deadly disease, who'll rape the hell out of our only host before killing it.