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« on: October 30, 2003, 02:19:09 PM »
Man the torpedo tubes!!!



"TAIJI, Japan - An environmental group claimed Wednesday that Japanese fishermen use unnecessarily brutal methods to hunt dolphins, releasing a videotape that shows the mammals being forced into a cove to be killed, with the water turning red from the blood.

The killing of dolphins is not banned by international law, but the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which seeks to ban the practice, denounced the method used in the western Japanese town of Taiji.

"It's a wholesale slaughter, which results in immense suffering for these animals," said Nik Hensey, an activist with the California-based group. "It's a sight that one just can't imagine."

Town officials declined comment, but an official with the local fishermen's union, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the hunts are conducted as humanely as possible, and noted that dolphin hunts have been part of local culture for 400 years.

In the videotape, fishermen pound on the water, causing waves that confuse the animals' sense of direction, then corral the dolphins into small coves, where they can be easily killed.

Sea Shepherd made the videotape and provided a copy to Associated Press Television News.

Shuichi Sato, an official at the whaling section of Japan's Fisheries Agency, said there is another village in Japan where the local fishermen catch dolphins in the same manner as in Taiji, while others use harpoons farther from shore. He said the hunting of dolphins is no worse than the slaughter of cows, sheep or other animals consumed by humans.


"What's wrong with eating dolphins? There are Hindus, Muslims around the world who don't eat beef or pork, but do they tell Europeans not to eat this meat," Sato said. "To impose one's culture on others is to deny the culture of other countries."


Though subject to government-set quotas, the hunts are not banned under Japanese law and are not subject to international regulations because they are done near the shore.


Fishermen in Taiji hunt dolphins from October to April. They've caught more than 60 striped dolphins so far this year under the government quota system. The meat is usually canned and sold in supermarkets. "

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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2003, 02:22:08 PM »
We're not talking "Flipper" here are we?

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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2003, 02:26:45 PM »
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We're not talking "Flipper" here are we?



sadly ...yes

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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2003, 02:27:50 PM »
Old news -they been hunting/fishing for Dolphins that way for 100's of years.

No different than our stupid redneck deer hunters.

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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2003, 02:29:14 PM »
Hey....I'm not stupid.

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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2003, 02:30:31 PM »
*Homer Simpson voice*

MMMMMMMmmmmm  Dolphin!

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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2003, 02:32:43 PM »
Oh for crying out loud when is someone going to KNOCK OF THOSE WUSSY TREE HUGGING HIPPIES.

The dolphin hunt is nothing new, the only reason its probably being beyatched about again is some environmental group needs to raise some $$$$ for their weed habit.

Yeah yeah it sucks, but its cultural, hell, some people find eating lamb repulsive, yet its the national roast over here.

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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2003, 02:33:30 PM »
I don't know...

Dolphin is a little more sentient then deer...

I don't care for any type of hunting, but this type seems particularly harsh.

To me, it' would be like rounding up a few hundred dogs, and cornering them in an alley....and wham-O.

Thank God this only happens in Vietnam.

Anyway...not cool.

They must think eating Dolphin makes them potent or something..something about Asian culture and potentcy foods...

*shrugs*

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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2003, 02:36:01 PM »
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Fishermen in Taiji hunt dolphins from October to April. They've caught more than 60 striped dolphins so far this year under the government quota system. The meat is usually canned and sold in supermarkets. "


The sticker says "Tuna Safe".

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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2003, 02:39:52 PM »
Hindus think cows are sacred.  Americans eat cows.  They probably believe that cows are more sentient/intelligent/blessed than other animals.  They don't tell us not to eat beef, and if they did we'd just laugh at them.  

It's their business.  Environmentalists need to bug off.  Just because flipper was cute doesn't mean that people who have been hunting dolphin for hundreds of years should change and eat something that is less cute/intelligent/whatever.

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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2003, 02:41:24 PM »
They have a government imposed quota that only lets them kill 22,000.


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« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2003, 02:43:35 PM »
but they have EYES for Pete's sake!!! why, someone might have given one a name after a few minutes of comradery in the water!
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« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2003, 02:45:44 PM »
dolfinz R SMRT!!!!

havent you guys seen SEAQUEST?!  THEY CAN TALK DAMNIT!





I say leave'em alone.  Read the illuminatus trilogy... Howard the dolphin sings and wrtes poetry.

That picture is disgusting.
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2003, 02:47:09 PM »
From "Futurama":


Prof.: A toast to Leela.  She showed us it's wrong to eat certain things.
Fry: Hear, hear!
Bender: Let's get drunk!
Leela: Aw, thanks, guys.  Pass the veal, please.
Bender: Here you go.
Fry: Mmm, let me get some of that suckling pig.
        [Amy hands it to him]
Bender: Who wants dolphin?  [Everyone gasps]
Leela: Dolphin?  But dolphins are intelligent.
Bender: Not this one.  He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.
Leela: Oh. That's different.  Pass the blowhole.
Amy: Can I have a fluke?
Hermes: Hey, quite hogging the bottlenose.
Prof.: Toss me the speech center of the brain.
 

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« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2003, 02:51:53 PM »
Pigs are smart too.  I could always go find a picture of the inside of a pork/bacon processing facility.  I'd bet that's no worse than mickey's pic.