Save Our Dolphins! Help Stop Mass Dolphin Slaughter in Japan!
My next post was supposed to be about the Chinese New Year of the Horse and my predictions for the year 2014. But then I learned about what is happening in Japan right this moment! 500 dolphins have been trapped in the infamous Taiji Cove where the bleeding, stressed, petrified animals await their gruesome deaths! I am shocked and shaken to the core by this despicable mass slaughter of the gentlest, most beautiful and evolved creatures our planet has ever produced! And all this – for greed and profit!
Japan defends their barbaric annual dolphin slaughter ritual as a Japanese tradition. Slavery was also a tradition; does that mean we should have kept it too?
Beautiful, playful #bottlenose dolphins that are being mercilessly slaughtered in Japan right now!
My predictions for the Year of the Horse will have to wait. This post is dedicated to the #dolphins who are being slaughtered in Japan one by one right now!
#Dolphinslaughter in #Taiji #Japan must stop! #HelpCoveDolphins #tweet4taiji
I am #Heartbroken and cannot watch the video below without tears. I cannot bring myself to post such cruel, reprehensible, disgustingly shameful footage of mass murder of innocent, beautiful dolphins on my blog. It is shocking and very difficult to watch, however it must be watched! Awareness has to be raised, madness has to stop, we, humans, need to wake up!
Please click on link to watch it on Youtube. It is called “A Tribute to Dolphins of Taiji, Japan.” There are many more similar videos on Youtube next to this one and they all are full of blood, horror and madness.
Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWu9v4FQLU
This is one of the most heartbreaking videos I’ve ever seen! Dolphins are endowed with high consciousness and together with whales they serve as a bridge to higher consciousness for humans. Universally known are many, many cases when dolphins have saved humans. They are always playful, kind, sociable, benign beings, who love to accompany ships and swimmers, and even protect humans from sharks.
And this is how we repay these beautiful creatures – by mass murdering them in the most inhumane, cruel fashion imaginable? Atrocities being regularly committed against dolphins and #whales in #Japan and #Peru make me ashamed to be a part of the human race!
From the article in LA Times By Carol J. Williams, 1/21/14, 3:11 p.m.: “The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for years has targeted the annual Japanese dolphin capture and kill for criticism of what it considers inhumane treatment of sentient beings.
“Five separate pods of bottlenose dolphins totaling more than 250 individuals including juveniles and babies were driven into Taiji’s infamous killing cove on Thursday, where they have endured four days of a bloody and traumatizing captive selection process,” Sea Shepherd said in a statement that accused the fishermen of depriving their captives of food while they awaited slaughter.
Fifty-two of the dolphins were selected for sale to marine parks and aquariums, while about 40 were taken onshore to a tent where they were slaughtered and prepared for delivery to butchers to be sold for human consumption, Sea Shepherd activist Melissa Sehgal said in a live-streamed report from Taiji.” Link: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-japan-dolphin-kill-criticism-20140121,0,6941058.story#ixzz2r56HuCKp
The clock is ticking!
Not only is #Japan responsible for #Fukushima, not only it is responsible for the ongoing and growing poisoning of the Earth’s oceans and our planet’s atmosphere with radiation to such a degree that no known to man technology can counter it, it is also a profitable business there to engage in the annual mass slaughter of dolphins and whales every September through March!
The dolphins are very trusting and innocent and because of that, they get trapped and captured much too easily by humans in Taiji Cove, Japan. It is much easier, and therefore much more profitable, to prey on such benevolent and peaceful beings!
Japan is infamous for its shameful “annual dolphin hunt,” when the waters of the bay turn crimson from blood of terrified, wounded and killed dolphins. Most dolphins that get trapped get mercilessly slaughtered, while a few get selected to be transported live to aquaria and marine parks across the globe.
The cruel and painful slaughter of 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales occurs in Japan each year!!!
#SHAME on you, #JAPAN!
STOP the #MURDER OF INNOCENT #DOLPHINS and #WHALES NOW!
How do we stop the atrocities? What can any human with conscience do?
1. Boycott marine parks and aquaria across the globe! Chances are they receive their dolphins from Japan!
2. Join me and 50,000 others to sign a petition to stop airlines from transporting dolphins and whales to marine parks and aquaria. Sign this petition: http://us.whales.org/campaigns/brutal
3. Tell Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe what you think about him, his government, the despicable slaughter of dolphins and whales, and about Fukushima! More: https://www.facebook.com/jaki.song/posts/10202491993613091
4. Tweet to Japan’s Prime Minister @JPN_PMO to express how you feel about the slaughter of dolphins! These are my sample tweets (already tweeted – you can also find these in my Twitter timeline and retweet):
1) “@JPN_PMO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, stop #Dolphinslaughter in #Taiji #Japan NOW #HelpCoveDolphins #tweet4taiji
#dolphins #SHAME on Japan! RT”
2) “ALL, help stop #Dolphinslaughter in #Taiji #Japan! #HelpCoveDolphins #tweet4taiji! Protest to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe @JPN_PMO! RT”
5. WAZA has the power to stop dolphin slaughter. Join WAZA tweetstorm! More: https://www.facebook.com/jaki.song/posts/10202492698310708
6. No Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in 2020, unless they stop the dolphin and whale mass slaughter! More info on how to call/fax IOC (International Olympic Committee): https://www.facebook.com/jaki.song/posts/10202492293180580. This IOC contact info has been posted by a Japanese American, who strongly opposes this gruesome Japanese practice. Email and more info coming!
7. I understand that a similar practice of mass slaughter of the dolphins exists in #Peru. I will post more information here when I find it.
Thank you for signing the above petition, thank you for contacting the above officials! Please share! Remember, all this is happening in Taiji, Japan as we speak!!!
My prayers are with the innocent dolphins and all other animals of Planet Earth. May they be protected against senseless violence at the hands of humans and against human greed!
If you know of any more petitions to help save the dolphins, please post links in the comment section! Thank you!
Related:
http://1earthunite.wordpress.com: Please help save the dolphins
I Don’t Want to Protect the Animals – I Want to Create the World in Which They Don’t Need Protecting! (Sign petitions to save last remaining rhinoceros of Africa and to create registry of animal abusers in USA)
I’ll be Donating Profits From My Book Sales to No-Kill Animal Shelter in USA and Siberian Tiger Rescue in Russia
