Tomorrow Is Japan Dolphin Day - Let's Abolish The Annual Dolphin Slaughter!
September 19, 2006 @ 11:06 AM (EST)
Source: Earthisland.org
Every year from October through April fishermen in some remote Japanese villages eradicate about 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in the most brutal way imaginable. This is the largest massacre of cetacean anywhere in the world. The fishermen have told us they kill the dolphins primarily as a form of "pest control." They say the dolphins eat too many fish, and they need to eradicate the competition.
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