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Yesterday a very small pod of Rissos dolphins, maybe five, seven, no more than 10, were brutalized in a 5-Hour Drive towards the cove.
These dolphins fought for their lives, repeatedly swimming under the boats, holding their breath while exhausted, trying to outpace the hunters.
Eventually, their exhaustion, confusion, disorientation betrayed them as they swam towards the cove, instead of away from it. But the unrelenting cruelty, greed, derangement of the Taiji hunters cannot be understated.
The going price for a slaughtered dolphin, is perhaps $250-$300. The amount of gasoline used to chase these five or six dolphins into the killing Cove was likely more than the Dolphins were worth to the hunters, dead. Showing, that this is not culture, or tradition.
No, whatever reason these hunters have for using so much energy on getting a thrill by terrorizing and murdering these dolphins, is sick. But, we know the reason, it's because the captive industry pays for the slaughters, and because the government of Japan sanctions the slaughters, it's because they do not respect life.
They kill whales, they kill dolphins, they kill anything they "believe" is stealing "their fish". But the fact of reality is, they have stolen all the fish on their own. The Japanese have overfished their waters.
They will scapegoat any living, breathing animal, and chase it, until they have control, and can brutally murder it and it's family.
I really do hope that someday, these hunters look into the eyes of a dolphin, see themselves as we do, what they're doing, how they are terrorizing, and committing acts of murder, and then I hope they will forever stop. I feel sick to my stomach EVERY DAY a slaughter takes place. I cannot understand how they don't.
It's been done before (see "Can Taiji Re-Brand Itself?")
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