The Japanese government allows 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 Japanese dive hunts have been condemned by animal welfare experts around the world as brutal and inhumane, but pleas to stop them have been ignored. Please sign this petition asking the Australian Government to make ending the dolphin slaughter a high priority in all negotiations with the Japanese government.
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May 11, 2010
I literally cannot stop thinking about the footage of those pods and how the noise must sound to them underwater because it feels like we are yelling into a void sometimes. We have been sending emails to every office that might listen and even though it is quiet right now we are not stopping until someone actually acknowledges the brutality of these hunts.
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this makes me so sick to my stomach. how can people be so cruel to such beautiful creatures??? stop this now.
TOTAL BARBARISM!! these are sentient beings not just meat. let them swim free and leave them alone.
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The Japanese government allows 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 Japanese dive hunts have been condemned by animal welfare experts around the world as brutal and inhumane, but pleas to stop them have been ignored. Please sign this petition asking the Australian Government to make ending the dolphin slaughter a high priority in all negotiations with the Japanese government.
You can see our short movie on the topic on You Tube, just go to:
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May 11, 2010
I literally cannot stop thinking about the footage of those pods and how the noise must sound to them underwater because it feels like we are yelling into a void sometimes. We have been sending emails to every office that might listen and even though it is quiet right now we are not stopping until someone actually acknowledges the brutality of these hunts.
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This is senseless inhumane slaughter of intelligent mammals!!! How would they like their family herded into an area and slaughtered??!!
this makes me so sick to my stomach. how can people be so cruel to such beautiful creatures??? stop this now.
TOTAL BARBARISM!! these are sentient beings not just meat. let them swim free and leave them alone.
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This is senseless inhumane slaughter of intelligent mammals!!! How would they like their family herded into an area and slaughtered??!!