Help Save the Dolphins

Before I climb to bed at night (or morning, depends on my work shift), I make it a point to watch TV for about five minutes before I doze off to slumberland. I browse through Discovery Channel, Travel and Living channel, or catch up on Hollywood or local showbiz news. I was able to watch the Daily 10 this morning, a Hollywood entertainment news show, and decided to watch a couple of news. Later on, the show presented Hayden Panettiere of Heroes and declared (or joked?) of Hayden being wanted by Japanese policemen for trying to save the dolphins.

Whhhhaaattt?

I thought I heard it wrong so having Google just an Alt+Tab away, I searched for the keywords 'Hayden dolphin'. E! News' story about Hayden's attempt to rescue dolphins in Japan came up so I read through the article. What I found out devastated me.

Hayden apparently volunteered to go with animal rights volunteers to go to Taiji, Japan and stop thousands of dolphins from being massacred. In the E! News website, Hayden was crying and telling the press that they could not save the dolphins from the Japanese fishermen who were lashing out at them with a boat hook, eventually forcing them to return to shore.

Wanting for more information, I searched further and saw the website who spearheads this mission, the Save Japan Dolphins organization. They are volunteers who have gathered from all over the globe to help put a stop to this non-sense massacre of gentle dolphins. I watched some of the videos that really made me cry because these killings are inhumane!

The group's website states:

In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.

After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as six minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.

This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.

The extreme cover-up is undermining one of the fishermen’s principal justifications for killing dolphins: That it’s a tradition they are proud of. If they are truly proud of killing dolphins, then why are they so frantic about hiding it? The fact that they hide the bloodbath behind blue tarp, chains, barbed wire and walls of fabric reveals that they are well aware that the dolphin massacres, once fully exposed, will be viewed as deplorable by the rest of the world, including the Japanese people.

Here some pictures of these inhumane activities courtesy of savejapandolphins.org:

This is a picture of Japanese fishermen rounding up the dolphins to a shallow cove to be slaughtered later on for their meat while some young dolphins are to be sold to dolphin trainers for their dolphin shows.

This is a picture of the bloodbath after the dolphins were massacred. The sea has turned red from thousands of dolphins that were slaughtered in Taiji simply because it is a tradition.

How can the Japanese kill these gentle creatures?
For their meat? Because it is the tradition?

Help put a stop to this insane killings of sea creatures! Visit Save Japan Dolphins organization website and take action to let the Japanese government be known of this animal cruelty.Help save the dolphins for the future generations to come.

"A good man takes care of his animals, but wicked men are cruel to theirs."

- Proverbs 12:10