Activists File Lawsuit to Highlight Annual Dolphin Massacre in Japan
Posted by feww on May 15, 2014
Taiji Dolphin Drive Hunt Is a Mass Slaughter, Not a Tradition
Environmental activists are suing an aquarium in Taiji, Japan, a town made infamous by its annual dolphin slaughters, for denying them entry.
Earth Island Institute’s Dolphin Project and Save Japan Dolphins Campaign have filed a lawsuit on behalf of dolphins caught in the bloody drive hunts in Taiji, and in particular “Angel,” a rare albino bottlenose calf separated from its parents and kept in appalling conditions in an aquarium at Taiji Whale Museum, said Save Japan Dolphins.
When asked what happened to its parents, Taiji museum dolphin trainer said: “We don’t know for sure. They may have become meat,” AP reported.
“The lawsuit asserts that the Museum behaves illegally by denying entrance to dolphin welfare experts and observers on the basis of their opinion and race. This conduct is in breach of the Japanese constitution, which protects equal access to public places for all law-abiding people.”
The aquarium refused entry to former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, 74, to prevent him from checking on the white baby dolphin he calls Angel, it has in captivity.
A Day at The Cove! Image credit: Oceanic Preservation Society.
“They don’t want people like me to go into the Taiji Whale Museum to monitor Angel,” O’Barry said on Thursday.
“This is the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth,” he said. “Hundreds of thousands of dolphins have died there, in the most brutal way imaginable. Angel is the symbol of all of that. That is why she is so important.”
“Angel is living in hell,” said O’Barry. “This one small dolphin has become a global representative of the thousands of dolphins slaughtered and captured each year in Taiji.”
The Japanese government aggressively defends the dolphin drive hunt as tradition, a preposterous claim because the mass slaughter began in 1969, and in the face of international opposition, including from numerous celebrities.
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Fire Earth 
SB said
Everything in Japan is fabricated. They’re a slave nation kept prisoners in a twilight zone of lies, disinformation and sadomasochistic perversions. (OK! Fair enough! But at least we have the Catholic church!!) That’s the only way the ruling class can stay in power.
I lived in Japan for 18 months and learned a few things about the feckless, ugly b*st***s.[Not meant to be racist, simply expressing my feelings.]
What struck me most was their utter contempt for foreigners. So, I find a very interesting when they call themselves our friends!!
They hate taking orders from foreigners, even if their miserable lives depended on it.
Never mind hurting the dolphins, the average barbarian would readily cut off the noses of thousands of their own just to spite a single American face!
RuffleTheTeacher said
You know… back in the mid 1940s, the United States started a tradition. We started dropping nukes every couple days or so. Whatever happened to that tradition?
Karma. It’s a bitch, eh Fukushima Prefecture?