STOP Japanese Dolphin Hunt in Taiji,Japan before Sept/2014. Petition will be delivered to Japanese Consulate

STOP Japanese Dolphin Hunt in Taiji,Japan before Sept/2014. Petition will be delivered to Japanese Consulate

Why this is important to me

THE TIDE IS TURNING. Dolphins have been declared non-human persons by Romania and India. They are not fish, but highly complex, emotional, and family oriented mammals. The killing in the Cove of Tiaji is brutal, inhumane, goulash, and for a lot of money. It also provides a small band of so called "fishermen" the chance to participate in body contact blood sport. A movie named "the cove" was made to help stop this barbarity, but a small group in Japan, continues to commit these atrocities. It will begin again in Sept., 2014. The dolphins are either sold to aquariums for $150,000 each or brutally killed one on one with hooks in the cove. Mother's and calves are separated ruthlessly. Aquariums like SeaWorld are now under fire for keeping these intelligent creatures, including Orcas, in too small a space for mental heath. Jacques Cousteau sums it up best when he said “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal”. The solution lies in many voices speaking together. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, US Ambassador to Japan, spoke out against the hunt last January.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Everyone_Stop_the_dolphin_killing_in_Taiji_Japan/?smBeNeb