MARCH ON JAPANESE EMBASSY AGAINST DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER
Photo © Gabriel Rinaldi
WHAT TO BRING: peaceful demeanor, signs, posters, images of the dolphin slaughter. WHAT TO WEAR: cause related shirts or the color RED to depict the bloodshed in Taiji, comfortable shoes, sun protection.
Questions? Please contact:
Julia Ramsey ( facebook.com/julia.ramsey / ramseyjulia@gmail.com )
Katherine Lapuz (facebook.com/klapuz / klapuz@sbcglobal.net)
We will be holding a world-wide peaceful and lawful protest of the annual dolphin slaughter in Japan, as depicted in the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove and the Animal Planet series Blood Dolphins. The Japanese government issues 23,000 permits annually to coastal communities to kill dolphins of several species. A few are sold, at great profit, to aquariums and swim-with-dolphins programs around the world. The captive dolphin industry subsidizes the slaughter. The majority of the pod are then slaughtered for meat. But the meat is contaminated with huge amounts of mercury and other pollutants, exceeding the Japanese government’s own health limits. This is a human rights issue as much as an animal welfare issue.
Demonstrations will be going on throughout the world in front of Japanese embassies and consulates on October 14th. Please join your fellow environmentalists and animal activists in protesting the hunts and urging Japan to switch to more sustainable and benign methods of profit, such as eco-tourism and dolphin-watching cruises (ironically becoming more popular in Japan every year).
Please join us in protesting the dolphin slaughter. For more information on the issue, you can visit: www.savejapandolphins.org
