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A short time after the slaughter, local buyers swarmed the butcher house. It is rumored that the dolphin-hunting season will end soon and locals opted to stock up on fresh dolphin meat. Trucks upon trucks flowed into the parking lot to purchase the 98 carcasses. The buyers wear facial masks and try to cover their license plates so that we cannot identify them. Unfortunately for them, we do know who they are and we always have our cameras ready.
The blood trail ended at a local fish market. I stood outside the open door. Quietly I watched a woman chop up dolphin fins. She was eager and took her time cutting precise pieces on a wooden table. Five minutes of video was all I needed. Soon the police arrived. It is not illegal to film; I wasn’t breaking the law. So I continued to film as the woman tried to close the door but couldn’t. She was angry. Well, I am angry too. I am angry that Taiji kills dolphins. The grotesque smell of boiling dolphin flesh continues to linger in this dark and haunting little town.
This hit me hard. As does everything that comes out of this disgusting place.
To the ninety eight dolphins that were brutally murdered I say, rest in peace.
You are in a much better place now than on this cruel planet.
I’m sorry your life came to a horrendous end.
I love you all. I really do.
The following article was written by Tim Burns. A cove monitor and is published on savejapandolphins.org
He is also the creator of the video.
TODAY WAS AWFUL
by Tim Burns
Cove Monitor
Save Japan Dolphins
Earth Island InstituteAwful, unbearable, heartbreaking, unfair, stupid — all words to try to adequately explain today’s slaughter of 98 Pantropical spotted dolphins.
We spotted the lineup of banger boats early this morning. I was sure they were going to put a lot of effort into this drive, knowing that a few days ago they lost so many Pacific white-sided dolphins. Unfortunately I was not wrong. I could do an entire blog today of distasteful words that describe how I feel about what happened in Taiji.
As their season comes to an early end this week, I fear no dolphin will be spared in Japanese waters. The numbers are down from previous years and from the quota. So much so, that babies are back on the menu. Today as I watched the pod being pushed into the Cove, I could see many juvenile dolphins. After splitting the pod into two groups, the hunters began the slaughter. The first wave was driven, pushed, and in a few instances tail roped and dragged under the tarps. After about 15 minuets the second group was just as brutally corralled under the tarps.
I noticed one swim back out from under the tarp, as it was partially paralyzed. It could only swim in one direction. The hunters just allowed it to swim out in front of the tarps for about 5-10 minutes. Once there was no fight left, he was tail wrapped and pulled back under.
Within the hour, the Cove was red again. The blood of 98 dolphins filled the killing Cove.
Normally, the “Town of Taiji representatives” stare into the Cove as it is happening, but today, once the blood began to flow, they all backed away from the cliff and just looked at us. Normally they smile and joke back and forth with each other, but not today. Today they witnessed as we did the brutal disregard for life that these 26 hunters have. Today they all witnessed how no care is taken for a “humane” end to these dolphins’ lives, but rather an intentional barbaric slaughter. I suspect tonight at the diner table there will not be any talk of a great, rewarding day at work.
Tomorrow we will see them all again, but not without knowing it could be seen in their faces: this is wrong!
Photography and video by Tim Burns.
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Taiji - Japan - Day4 - Bad Weather = Great Weather!
Today was a great day!
There were no dolphins or whales killed in Taiji today! The dolphin killers spent all morning fighting bad seas and searching for something to hunt. They came up empty handed. When the dolphin killers came in from sea we had a few of our Cove Guardians greeting them waving our flag to as they entered the harbor.
After the dolphin killer boats were tied up we went to a place called dolphin base. Its a training facility where they keep dolphins, and pilot whales in floating pens in the harbor. Here they will teach the wild dolphins to eat small dead fish for tricks. This place sells these captured dolphins to sell to resorts, aquariums, circuses, ect… (Please dont support these places. The pain and suffering these dolphins are put through by being trapped in a tank and forced to do tricks for food the rest of its life isn’t worth your admission fee.) We watched as there were a handful of whales and dolphins in holding pens doing tricks.
There is even 2 trained dolphins who are allowed to swim freely in the harbor. Unfortunately they have been so conditioned that when called they go right back in their pen. One of our cove guardians even got video of the dolphin from outside the pen bringing a great big fish to one of the trainers showing it off ( most dolphins in captivity dont know how to hunt ). The trainer snatched it from its mouth and replaced it with a smaller dead fish to eat.
Its raining tonight so I am hoping the ocean is again to rough to for the dolphin killers. I hope neptune is on our side.
-B
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Obliteration by Conservation: A dolphins smile →
“A dolphin’s smile is nature’s greatest deception” -Ric O’Berry
No words have ever been spoken so truely.You go to a marnie park and you pat a dolphin, you see this animal staring at you, smiling and your first thought that has been drilled into your head since birth is - if you see something smiling its bound to be happy. So that goes for humans that often use a smile to hide pain and for an animal that is voiceless? well hello pro-caps that smile on that cetaceans face can be compared to a wrinkle that won’t go away on yours. It means nothing.
Cetaceans are conscious beings, and with that can commit suicide when depressed.-Wait, hold on a moment there has never been a cetacean commit suicide-
Actually, there has been more than one case.
Who remembers the dolphin that started it all? Flipper ?
The bottlenosed dolphin that started it all Kathy commited suicide by holding her breath. Kathy is the cetacean that convinced the man that started captivity ( Ric O’Berry) that it wasn’t right, irnoy eh?So why do they seem happy in captivity?
As the food is being prepared tablets are slipped under the gills and pushed away from the head and out of the sight of these predators. No one at a marine park is going to admit to this, so don’t bother trying to ask someone who wants to keep their job.
Well ask yourself how a person suffering depression gets by, antidepressants.
So just remember, a dolphin’s smile is nature’s greatest deception.
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i actually cannot breathe.
people absolutely disgust me.
stay strong bbys:’(
fucking disgusting and heartbreaking ugh
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Celebrate Japan Dolphins Day - Denver, Colorado (by Save Japan Dolphins)
Rebecca Black to donate Friday proceeds to Japan
Rebecca’s budget hit – dubbed by many as ‘the worst song ever’ has attracted mass attention on the internet, and attracted more than 40 million YouTube views.
Speaking of profits from her hit, she revealed she would be donating money to Japan, as well as to her school.
‘I am donating money to my school and Japan,’ she revealed.
‘My school, El Rancho Charter is really where I started focusing on singing. I feel bad. Japan happened so close to mine, and I feel like I’m taking away attention from it. I really just want to give back.’
This comes just days after Lady Gaga branded the 13-year-old singer a ‘genuis,’ for attracting a whopping 40 million viewers on YouTube.
‘I think it’s fantastic,’ Gaga said of the teen’s overnight online success.
‘I say Rebecca Black is a genius and anyone that’s telling her she’s cheesy is full of s**t,’ she added.
I feel bad for ever making fun of this girl now. She has made so much money and is doing a great thing
Donating 100% of the kibble to the animal relief effort in Japan
From Kelly at Freekibble: donating 100% of the kibble we raise on freekibble.com and freekibblekat.com to the animal relief effort in Japan - AND Halo, Purely for Pets, is matching it if we hit a million pieces for the day!
(Just click the link and answer the question that’s asked in the dog or cat’s speech bubble, no signing up)
http://www.freekibble.com/
These people are the ones out there rescuing animals left behind in Japan →
Like this page, get the word out, donate, reblog. These people can’t do it alone.
Direct link to donate - Click on ‘chip in’ and it will bring you to paypal. Change the language in the upper right hand corner
http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support
