Save Our World's Dolphins from Cruel Slaughter

Dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals thrill us with their splendor, intrigue us with their highly developed intelligence and complex societies, and awe us with amazing displays of agility and grace. Across the world, dolphins and whales are revered as symbols of nature in all its strength and glory.

But dolphins, whales and other sea mammals are also under attack throughout the world's oceans. Countries like Japan and Norway are pressing hard to overturn the international ban on commercial whaling. The U.S. government has authorized whaling within its shores by the Makah tribe of Washington. The U.S. military is implementing a devastating new sonar system that will blast deafening and potentially fatal sound waves through the world's seas. The aquarium and public display industry is proliferating worldwide, supplied in part by the brutal drive fisheries in Japan that involve the slaughter of thousands of dolphins annually.

The heartless cruelty of the drive fisheries, along with the Japanese Government's endangerment of the public's health, are fueling the worldwide opposition to the annual dolphin slaughter taking place every year in Taiji and other Japanese coastal villages. Dolphin meat is tainted with deadly mercury, a heavy metal poison that can cause permanent neurological damage and death. Despite warnings from medical authorities and elected leaders, the Japanese Government supports expanding the use of dolphin meat in the country's school lunch program, putting schoolchildren at grave risk. As reckless as this is, the latest news is that the government has actually endorsed an increase in the number of dolphins killed in the town of Taiji's annual drive fisheries, so that even more people will eat the marine mammals' toxic flesh. Before the slaughter, fishermen segregate the best looking "specimens" and confine them in sea pens, where they are set aside for sale to marine parks and aquariums. At $3,000 per dolphin, this market provides strong incentive to the Japanese fishermen to continue this brutal practice.

"Aquariums, particularly marine mammal circus acts, are bound to disappear as the public is educated and revolts against it."
...Jean-Michel Cousteau.

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