Japanese Murderers

"Group: 250 dolphins await slaughter, lifetime of captivity at Japan's Taiji Cove"

 By: Laura Smith-Spark

 Source: CNN

 http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/japan-dolphin-hunt/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews The

Japanese have rounded up more than 250 bottlenose dolphins. They are wrapping them in nets and dragging them to Taiji Cove (area known for killing dolphins). The dolphins will be killed and butchered either for meat or to be sold. This happens year round at Taiji Cove and people see it as a bloody slaughter but the Japanese defend themselves. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were first to address this issue and talked about how five separate pods of bottlenose dolphins have been rounded up into the Taiji Cove and warned people that the dolphins will "face a violent and stressful captive selection process." The babies will be taken away from their mothers and many would be killed, taken for captivity, or enter back into sea and would have to live on their own without a mother. By the end of Saturday, already twenty-five dolphins were taken and put into the Taiji Cove. They stay there for the rest of their lives. One of the dolphins died in the process but it will still be butchered. They left the dolphins overnight and are currently repeating this process as of now. They will finish at the end of Sunday. There has been a Oscar-nominated documentary film about this issue and it is called "The Cove" and it came out in 2009. This film portrays the dolphin hunting process and the bloody scenes of dolphin killing. There have also been celebrities who try to stop this. Former drum mate of Guns N' Roses, Matt Sorum, works with the dolphin project. "You could be a world hero if you can put pressure to stop the cruel slaughter in Taiji," said Sorum. There needs to be a stop to this. The Japanese do not only kill dolphins, they also kill whales. Those creatures have not been threat to anyone and are innocent and are being killed and butchered in violent ways. Dolphins and whales are smart and do not need to be killed.