End Dolphin Slaughter in Japan
The Japanese government allows a few fishermen to slaughter thousands of dolphins and small whales in so-called drive hunts.
During drive hunts, fishermen panic and confuse migrating dolphins and other small whales with loud banging on metal pipes. They herd the dolphins into shallow coves and butcher them brutally. Every year, over 20,000 dolphins and other whale species are killed this way, including bottlenose dolphins, striped dolphins, spotted dolphins, Risso's dolphins, short-finned pilot whales, white-sided dolphins, and false killer whales.
Dolphins are intelligent, self-aware mammals with bonded social interactions. The Jananese drive hunts have been condemned by animal welfare experts around the world as brutal and inhumane, but pleas to stop them have been ignored.
Therefore, marine scientists and zoo and aquarium professionals, are asking for your support to bring this inhumane practice to an end.
Please sign the petition asking the U.S. State Depatment to make ending the dolphin slaughter a high priority in all negotiations with the Japanese government.
The Japanese government allows a few fishermen to slaughter thousands of dolphins and small whales in so-called drive hunts.
During drive hunts, fishermen panic and confuse migrating dolphins and other small whales with loud banging on metal pipes. They herd the dolphins into shallow coves and butcher them brutally. Every year, over 20,000 dolphins and other whale species are killed this way, including bottlenose dolphins, striped dolphins, spotted dolphins, Risso's dolphins, short-finned pilot whales, white-sided dolphins, and false killer whales.
Dolphins are intelligent, self-aware mammals with bonded social interactions. The Jananese drive hunts have been condemned by animal welfare experts around the world as brutal and inhumane, but pleas to stop them have been ignored.
Therefore, marine scientists and zoo and aquarium professionals, are asking for your support to bring this inhumane practice to an end.
Please sign the petition asking the U.S. State Depatment to make ending the dolphin slaughter a high priority in all negotiations with the Japanese government.
To:
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Secretary Clinton,
We, the undersigned, join with the global community of marine scientists and zoo and aquarium professionals in condemning the brutal and inhumane practice of dolphin drive hunts in Japan, which slaughter over 20,000 dolphins and other small whales each year. Dolphins are highly intelligent, self-aware, mammals with bonded social lives.
The United States engages in many types of meetings and negotiations with the Japanese government. We urge you to exercise your authority to make ending the cruel and inhumane Japanese dolphin slaughters a high priority in all dealings with the government of Japan.
We the undersigned from around the world recognize and respect your long history of strength on animal welfare issues. Therefore, we look to you as Secretary of State of the United States to make ending the slaughter of dolphins in Japan a high priority in all U.S. interactions with Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso and the government of Japan and to engage other countries in ending this inhumane practice.
Thank you
Sincerely,
Boycott Taiji.
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3:20 pm PST, Nov 7,
David Simons, Nevada
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nice to hear from you
Stop this massacre!!!
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Save the Dolphins, the most beautiful creature in the world
"STOP"
please please stop the butchery of these gorgeous and highly intelligent creatures, who deserve our respect and not this barbaric treatment!
Further inhumane slaughtering of these animals are wrong in every respect, we MUST stop this! For when there are no more what is next?
The best indicator of a nation's civility is how they treat their animals.
Watching such practises makes one ashamed to be a human. And we consider ourselves to be of superior intelligence?! The pursuit of money verses morality is an ever increasing monopolisation of society today.
Not only is this an inhumane practice, this is probably resulting in crashing populations of these dolphins, already under pressure due to pollution and the like. Declining populations of dolphins and the like means that prey populations will overgraze and overpopulate, resulting in declines of other species (even those consumed by people) and the collapse of food webs in the oceans.
Its disgusting how they treat those poor animals.
I don't get this at all these people are animals and that is a fact. Maybe someone ought to go to their homes and kill them because they need to eat them and their homes are in their way and see how they feel.
stop this pointless slaughter
Stop slaughter the dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People who perpetrate these crimes are low life scum and should not expect any more mercy than what they show to whales and dolphins.governments who support trade with the scum are no better.$$$$$$$$ above any thing else!
Just looking at that picture of water turning into a pool of blood makes me feel extremely disgusted.
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1:22 pm PST, Nov 1,
Katie Baker, South Carolina
This is cruel! Please help stop the slaughter of innocent animals. I've been to The Cove and I've seen what these people are doing first hand, it's not right!! |
only when the last trees and animals are killed will we realize we cant eat money
