Activist Claims Taiji Dolphin Cull Delayed As Media Gather

[Mulboyne]

[AlbertSiegel]

I know Ric and he is a very kind person. He is a very interesting man to chat with. He stopped by my father's place last week. I still have not seen his film though.... Looks very interesting...

[Midwinter]

What's the bet they just packed up and moved everything a few miles down the road?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Is there ever an activist culling season?

[FG Lurker]

What's the bet they just packed up and moved everything a few miles down the road?

More likely they just moved the date up a week or two and everything's over already...

[Greji]

Is there ever an activist culling season?

If they do, they're going to need help. Where can I sign up?

[BO-SENSEI]

Just saw this on the news, the locals were definitly pissed at the activists and wouldn't even let them into a combini to buy drinks. The activists were kind of disappointed and were saying that they were trying to help the local economy by buy things there.

Well that's great, except you are trying to force them to give up their largest source of income. No wonder you are not being let into a store to buy stuff.

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

(Continued)

These poisons are also having a shattering impact on whales and dolphins. Mercury damages their brains and nervous systems, too. And pesticides and other long-lived pollutants devastate their immune systems and cause cancer. But perhaps the most insidious effect of all is the impact these pollutants have on fertility. Dolphin numbers are plummeting worldwide. Hunting obviously has a big impact, but reduced fertility plays an equally significant role. And in recent years, yet another problem has begun to threaten dolphins and whales - noise pollution. Not only do both creatures use sound to 'see' underwater, they also rely on it to navigate and communicate. Sound from ships' engines, oil exploration, and military sonar confuses them and can permanently damage their hearing. The impact of noise pollution cannot be over-stated. The latest generation of sonar used by both the U.S and Royal navies can seriously harm whales and dolphins. To put this in perspective, if a submarine uses its sonar at maximum power, then dolphins 100 miles away will hear an ear-splitting sound equivalent to standing next to a jet fighter on full thrust. Such noise pollution is believed to have led to many whale and dolphin strandings in recent years.

Although the killing of dolphins at Taiji is undoubtedly horrific, campaigners fear that an equally horrific fate lies in store for the world's whales. For the International Whaling Commission - at the behest of the U.S government - is currently working on a 'compromise' agreement that would legalise commercial whaling. For the past 23 years, Japan has ignored international law and hunted whales illegally. To try to bring Japan back into the fold, the IWC is proposing to allow them to kill as many whales as they choose in their own waters. 'If the Japanese get their way, they will have succeeded in slaughtering hundreds of thousands of dolphins in defiance of world opinion,' says Andy Ottaway, director of the UK-based welfare group Campaign Whale. 'They will also have won the right to kill thousands of whales. 'But there are also signs of hope. Japan has just voted out a government that was in power for more than 40 years. For the first time in decades, there's a chance that attitudes might begin to change. 'If this issue is raised at the highest level - preferably at Prime Ministerial level - then there is a chance that this slaughter, and that of the whales, might finally end.' Until then, however, the waters of Taiji will continue to run red.

[Mulboyne]

[Visitor K]

[Catoneinutica]

Now that the Taiji, uh, dolphinophobes, have been caught red-handed, as it were, they're falling back on the usual chickenshit, komakai denials you hear every time members of the Tansoku Tribe (tm) get caught transgressing by gaijin:

"He believes filmmakers enhanced the documentary to make the cove seem bloodier. He also said that the fishermen changed their killing technique five years ago and believes the makers of "The Cove" used footage of old kills to mislead viewers."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-dolphins13-2009sep13,0,6529592,full.story

[Mike Oxlong]

He also said that the fishermen changed their killing technique five years ago and believes the makers of "The Cove" used footage of old kills to mislead viewers."

Sounds like the old-timers are hardcore gamers, contrary to Nottu's suggestion otherwise.

[Takechanpoo]

Taiji people better slaughter dolphines not in sea but inside factory by more "sophisticated" way like beef muncher Westerners do cows. And J-government must invest to do it.

[Mike Oxlong]

Taiji people better slaughter dolphines not in sea but inside factory by more "sophisticated" way like beef muncher Westerners do cows. And J-government must invest to do it.

It seems they're trying to do something like that, according to the Japan Times...

Although not customary to most Japanese, the tradition of consuming whales and dolphins, typically in a miso-flavored stew, has continued for more than 400 years. But the independent politician said he was "shocked" when a meat sample taken from a local supermarket in June revealed high levels of mercury and methylmercury.

The test results showed dolphin meat possessed mercury 10 times above the health ministry's advisory level of 0.4 parts per million, while the level of methylmercury was 10.33 times higher than the ministry's advisory level of 0.3 ppm, Yamashita said.

While no health impact has been reported, the numbers exceeded some of the examinations conducted on seafood that caused the Minamata mercury-pollution disaster in the 1950s, Yamashita said.

Despite the results, he said he has been unsuccessful in persuading Taiji to restrain sales of the meat or get local residents to stop consuming it.

The town has chosen to expand dolphin use in school lunches while proposing to construct a new dolphin and whale slaughterhouse, for some 330 million yen, to "popularize the consumption of dolphins in the country," Yamashita revealed. "It is a serious concern that such meat is being served in school lunches."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070904a3.html

[Catoneinutica]

Taiji people better slaughter dolphines not in sea but inside factory by more "sophisticated" way like beef muncher Westerners do cows. And J-government must invest to do it.

Look, if folks in Taiji want to beat the shit out of intelligent, high-in-the-food-chain mammals with the support of the J-government, then by all means, go for it. Have a ball. But the Tansoku Tribe (tm) better got-damn never condemn the Kimchee Kousins (tm) for beating the shit out of dogs; you two li'l gangs are equally primitive.

-catone
-sorry for the un-PC use of normative language

[Behan]

... Tansoku Tribe (tm) ...

[American Oyaji]

[Behan]

[hundefar]

[quote="Catoneinutica"]Look, if folks in Taiji want to beat the shit out of intelligent, high-in-the-food-chain mammals with the support of the J-government, then by all means, go for it. Have a ball. But the Tansoku Tribe (tm) better got-damn never condemn the Kimchee Kousins (tm) for beating the shit out of dogs]

So cuddly dogs and dolphins are out. WTF is it with you hippies?

[Mike Oxlong]

What?! Dogs were domesticated for eatin'...

Wolves were domesticated no more than 16,300 years ago in southern China, a new genetic analysis suggests—and it's possible the canines were tamed to be livestock, not pets, the study author speculates.

"In this region, even today, eating dog is a big cultural thing," noted study co-author Peter Savolainen, a biologist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

"And you can also see in the historical records as far back as you can go that eating dogs has been very common" in East Asia.

"Therefore, you have to think of the possibility that this was one of the reasons for domesticating dogs.

via National Geographic

[Mulboyne]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Scientific research steak...gives an entirely new meaning to the term "burger flipper."

[Greji]

[SIZE="4"]New video reveals dolphin hunt just as brutal as ever[/SIZE]



(Lovely shade of red, they wouldn't even have to touch it up for the photo deshouuuuu?)

The Sydney Hersald Reports:
HOBART: A fresh account has emerged of a harrowing dolphin kill at the Japanese town of Taiji, confirming the controversial hunt thrives despite a foreign vigil against it.

An Australian marine science student, Nicole McLachlan, 19, of Lismore, described seeing netted striped dolphins throw themselves against rocky cliffs in panic before about 40 were dragged by their tails into a makeshift tent on a beach, and stabbed to death. More here......

[IkemenTommy]

If dolphins were so smart in the first place, why would they swim up into this cove to get butchered up?

[AML]

If dolphins were so smart in the first place, why would they swim up into this cove to get butchered up?

The dolphins migrate past Taiji every year. The fisher taros come out with large metal poles and bang on them to disorient the dolphins radar, then heard them into the cove with nets.

Or were you just being a sarcastic douche?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Or were you just being a sarcastic douche?

Do you really have to ask?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japanese police and coast guard officers have held a security drill to practice protecting a village from protesters during its annual dolphin hunt.

A Wakayama prefectural police official says Wednesday's drill was aimed at guarding the southwestern town of Taiji from protesters before hunting season starts in September. About 100 law enforcement officers gathered in the bay where the Oscar-winning film "The Cove" was filmed.

The officers practiced responding to a ship carrying several activists intruding the bay and damaging a fishnet. The official said the drill ended safely without incident. ....

http://news.yahoo.com/japan-police-hold-security-drill-dolphin-hunt-105509951.html

[matsuki]

The dolphins and anything that eats them, are probably more loaded with mercury and radioactive elements than ever before. Anyone dumb enough to buy/eat that meat deserves their Darwin predicted death before they reproduce.

[Taro Toporific]

The dolphins and anything that eats them, are probably more loaded with mercury and radioactive elements than ever before. Anyone dumb enough to buy/eat that meat deserves their Darwin predicted death before they reproduce.

Not only that, dolphins taste TERRIBLE (compared to larger whales).