Holding pens for captured dolphins, Taiji, Japan. At any given moment, hundreds who’ve had their freedom stolen await their sale to marine parks around the world. Photo Credit: LIA/Dolphin Project To a dolphin, captivity is a living hell. That they are somehow ‘luckier’ than those killed outright is debatable. Every year, hundreds of dolphins are...
For forty thousand generations, we’ve done what we believed we needed to do to ensure our own survival. It’s been said that a society has the ethics it can afford. That may be true in some sense, but we think that we need to be very careful about defining those things we deem as necessary,...
We can debate the injustices of factory farming all we like (and we should), but it doesn’t rise to the level of horror of this.Photo Credit: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Whaling’s supporters believe they’ve got an argument that’s a sure winner, with simple math making their case irrefutable. It invariably goes something like this. How...
A place of sadness, injustice, and an utter lack of compassion Taiji is a place of genuine horror. What goes on there, from Sept 1st to Mar 1st of every year, is beyond anything we can conceptualize as part of the routine fabric of life in a modern industrialized nation. It’s a sickness that somehow...
Whaling has continued under many guises, including bogus scientific research.
Photo Credit: The Guardian
Ren Yabuki - taking on the Taiji hunters despite fierce opposition from local authorities
Photo Credit: Whale & Dolphin Conservation uk.whales.org
This is how dolphins continue to die to this day in Taiji, Japan, although now it’s kept under tarps and out of the public’s view
Photo: dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Icelandic whaling will end for good in 2024, but the nation has likely already killed whales for the last time.
Photo Credit: livekindly.co
Dolphin meat for sale in on Japanese grocery shelves
Photo Credit: Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project
A dolphin is beaten into submission prior to being killed or taken captive, Taiji, Japan
Photo credit: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project
