dolphin slaughter continues in Japan:

[amborin]

"The gruesome spectacle of dolphins being slaughtered for profit has returned to Taiji, just as international condemnation of the Japanese town's annual cull reaches a crescendo. At least 100 bottlenose dolphins and 50 pilot whales have been taken in the first hunt of the season, which began on 1 September.

Over the next six months the town's fishermen will catch about 2,300 of Japan's annual quota of 20,000 dolphins. The meat from a single animal fetches up to 50,000 yen (£330), but aquariums are prepared to pay up to £90,000 for certain types.

In a typical hunt the fishermen pursue pods of dolphins across open seas, banging metal poles together beneath the water to confuse their hypersensitive sonar. The exhausted animals are driven into a large cove sealed off by nets to stop them escaping and dragged backwards into secluded inlets the following morning to be butchered with knives and spears. They are then loaded on to boats and taken to the quayside to be cut up in a warehouse, the fishermen's work hidden from the outside by heavy shutters...."

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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/14/dolphin-slaughter-hunting-japan-taiji>

[flvegan]

1. This cannot get enough publicity.

"sold to aquariums" (many to those swim-with-the-dolphins programs) and "tradition"

Great reasons for this bloodbath. Thanks again for this, Japanese fisher"men"

[itsrobert]

2. Boycott Japanese products: Panasonic, Sony, Toyota, Honda,

Nissan, oh shit, there's too many of them.

[amborin]

3. there was a similar article

two weeks ago, which I posted.

Someone replied that there's a film, "The Cove," which documents this
horrendous practice.

Hopefully it will get distributed and word will get out to more
people.

[laststopSC]

6. I work at a non-profit independent cinema and we are getting "The Cove" this week

hopefully attendance is high

[amborin]

4. please take a minute to Buzz up these photos to get word out, thanks

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/sep/14/dolphin-cull-taiji-japan?picture=352924549>

[Cetacea]

5. Crimes against the "Humans of the Sea".

Twenty nine criminals shame the good people of Japan, who are against this as much as everyone else.