Stop Dolphin Slaughter In Japan
- par: Zarah Hitner
- destinataire: Nippon Suisan, Maruha and Kyokuyo
Every year more than 20,000 dolphins are brutally slaughtered in Taiji Japan. Their meat, containing highly toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat in order to conceal the contaminated nature of what the consumers are actually buying. This practice is not only extremely cruel and inhumane, it is duplicitous and poses a serious health hazard.
As many of you know, dolphins are highly intelligent, sentient creatures that deserve our respect. Dolphins have been highly researched and there have been many groundbreaking discoveries. For example, professor of psychology at Hunter College, Diana Reiss, showed that bottlenose dolphins could recognize themselves in a mirror and use it to inspect various parts of their bodies, an ability that had been thought limited to humans and great apes. Wild dolphins have shown cohabitation involving complex social structures and emotional nuances. In one recent case, a dolphin rescued from the wild was taught to tail-walk while recuperating at a dolphinarium in Australia. After she was released, scientists were astonished to see the trick spreading among wild dolphins who had learnt it from the former captive. Findings such as these provide the basis for the hypothesis that dolphins may even be smarter than humans.
The cooperation of subsidized companies in Europe and the U.K. are in large part responsible for the prosperity of the dolphin meat industry. With dwindling domestic markets Japanese whaling companies are increasingly dependent on foreign companies Nippon Suisan, Maruha and Kyokuyo. They can influence their parent companies and urge them to permanently shut down the whaling fleet.
It is up to us to motivate these companies to do this. Show your outrage at the cruel whaling atrocities being allowed to continue in Japan.
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently viewed the documentary The Cove in which activists and filmmakers exposed the unethical practices involving dolphins in Japan (and more specifically Taiji). The slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins every year is supporting a fallacious and unhealthy cetacean meat industry.
Corporate records show that your company continues to support pro-whaling interests under the guise of %u201Cpublic interest corporations%u201D. EIA investigations show Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha retain a major role in whale meat wholesale and distribution, despite denying involvement. Please do not underestimate your companies connections to the inhumane practice in regards to treatment of wild dolphins. The cetacean meat industry is enabled to thrive because of substantial assistance from foreign markets, particularly in the UK and Europe. If you take action to permanently shut down the whaling fleet, Japans large-scale whaling industry will fall.
Dolphins are highly intelligent, sentient creatures that deserve our respect. Dolphins have been highly researched and there have been many groundbreaking discoveries. For example, professor of psychology at Hunter College, Diana Reiss, showed that bottlenose dolphins could recognize themselves in a mirror and use it to inspect various parts of their bodies, an ability that had been thought limited to humans and great apes. Wild dolphins have shown cohabitation involving complex social structures and emotional nuances. In one recent case, a dolphin rescued from the wild was taught to tail-walk while recuperating for three weeks in a dolphinarium in Australia. After she was released, scientists were astonished to see the trick spreading among wild dolphins who had learnt it from the former captive. Findings such as these provide the basis for the hypothesis that dolphins may even be smarter than humans. The sonar dolphins use to communicate makes correlating human technology look like a toy. Cruel, heartless treatment of dolphins is supported and made possible by your company. If you continue to support whaling practices we will lose a unique and unparalleled species. I urge you to do what you can to influence your parent companies in order to stop whaling.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
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