Mission Statement in Three Easy Steps
1. Through networking bring awareness to the world of the brutal slaughter of whales and dolphins by the world’s largest offenders, the Japanese.
2. Mail letters to the six largest companies of Japan (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba) whom collectively employ over one million Japanese citizens, informing them we are boycotting their products until they force their government to end these brutal practices. i.e. DO NOT PURCHASE ANY JAPANESE PRODUCTS!!!
3. Hold demonstrations at key events where these products are marketed and displayed in order to attract media attention to better spread the word. These events would include national car shows throughout the year in major cities. Electronics shows at the largest venue in Las Vegas. Etc.
Go to www.savetheseamammals.org to print off critical letters to companies of influence
We need EVERYONE to participate in these three steps. If we all collectively send letters and stage demonstrations as stated above, THIS WILL END. Please view the left side of my MySpace page to get the boycott information. Soon I will be posting letters to each of the six companies listed that can simply be printed off, signed and then mailed in. I am also creating a website that will be more user friendly. Please monitor this site for updates. Believe me, if we start affecting these Japanese companies pocket books (their bottom line), they will take action with their government.
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Thanks to the recent worldwide publicity, the truth about the Taiji Dolphin slaughter is now going out to millions of people.
The group of committed surfers, actresses, filmmakers, and Save Japan Dolphins Coalition Director Ric O'Barry converged on the remote Japanese fishing village of Taiji to pray for the world's original surfers: the dolphins. Ric continues to lead the international campaign, maintaining the strongest and most consistent on-the-ground presence in Taiji.
Dave Rastovich, Hannah Mermaid, Hayden Panetteire of the popular TV show Heroes, and Karina Petroni were just some of the heroes participating in the "paddle out". A paddle out is a surfers' ritual/ceremony which takes place when a fellow surfer dies. Everyone paddles out past the surf line and forms a circle holding hands while praying for the departed. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
What they witnessed the second day when the killing of pilot whales resumed was overwhelming.
Their tributes, the photos and film footage, and the violent actions of the fishermen are revealing the shocking secret slaughter of Taiji as never before.
We need your help to stop it!!!!
In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.
After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as 30 minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.
This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.
Taiji – the Killing Zone
Japanese fishermen kill the largest number of dolphins anywhere in the world and dolphins and porpoises face grave danger in Japan’s coastal waters when the annual hunt begins. This year the drive fishery, a method in which dolphins are forced ashore and hacked to death, has taken place in Taiji and Futo.
In Taiji the annual dolphin hunt starts October 1st and continues through March 30th. Here, the massacre of dolphins is strongly encouraged by three local dolphinariums that purchase show-quality dolphins at a high cost and ship some of them off to othe facilities in Japan and abroad.
The entire capture procedure in January last year when more than 100 bottlenose dolphins were forced ashore and some 20 dolphins selected by dolphinaria. Several dolphins were killed during the selection process.
This kind of major international exposure is the last thing the fishermen and the dolphin captivity industry want, and it came as no surprise that they were fuming with anger when they were filmed slaughtering hundreds of dolphins in October.
We need expose the barbaric methods used to capture and kill dolphins, the fishermen have gone to extreme effort and expense to prevent us from carrying out any documentary work. What they are doing to the dolphins is so brutal; they know they have to conceal it from the rest of the world to avoid a huge international outcry.
They used to carry out the massacres in a large lagoon by a public road, but the mounting exposure has forced them into one last hiding place; a small cove hidden between two mountains. The cove is part of a public park and tourists from all of Japan come here to walk the picturesque trails along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world.
During the drive fishery season, which lasts six months out of the year, the fishermen take the area into their possession, employing exceptionally hostile tactics to keep westerners and Japanese tourists away from the cove while dolphins are being killed. In doing so they have created a threatening and sinister atmosphere in an otherwise beautiful and friendly village.
Hiding their activities the best they can has been part of the fishermen’s policy for years but they have now taken their cover-up to a new, fanatic level. Supported by local authorities they have banned anyone from climbing the mountain from where they can see the killing cove.
They are so scared of any cameras; they have tied barbed wire around the trees used to climb to photograph the massacres and at the top of the mountain have installed a hideous wall made of fabric and plastic to block anyone's view. They have tied metal chains to trees everywhere along the paths leading to the killing cove. Attached to the chains are signs with hand-written words of warning: "Keep Out!" and "No trespassing!"
After the massacre the water remains red with blood for hours and the ludicrous signs warning people of non-existent dangers such as "Falling rocks!" and "Mud-slides!" are not removed until after the sea has washed the blood away and all evidence of the butchery has vanished.
The fishermen have even erected a large piece of fabric across the mouth of the cove to prevent any photographing of the bloodbath from a boat and as further proof of their deep-rooted fear of the truth being known to the world have placed a gigantic piece of blue tarp across the entire killing cove so noone can see or film the massacres, not even from a helicopter.
The fishermen have succeeded in hiding the massacres almost to perfection but their strategy is backfiring in a way they probably did not anticipate. The dolphin slaughter is surrounded by so much contemptible deception and is so profoundly guarded; it has raised much curiosity among the visiting Japanese tourists who wonder what the secrecy is all about. Many kept asking: "What are the fishermen doing behind the blue tarp that’s so terrible that no one is allowed to see it?"
The extreme cover-up is undermining one of the fishermen’s principal justifications for killing dolphins: That it’s a tradition they are proud of. If they are truly proud of killing dolphins, then why are they so frantic about hiding it? The fact that they hide the bloodbath behind blue tarp, chains, barbed wire and walls of fabric reveals that they are well aware that the dolphin massacres, once fully exposed, will be viewed as deplorable by the rest of the world, including the Japanese people.
The fishermen spend a lot of time waving large signs in front of camera lenses, yelling, "Don’t take photos!" What they are really saying is, "We have something to hide."
By acting so hostile and secretive, they involuntarily bring more attention to themselves and the dolphin massacres. As a young girl visiting from Tokyo put it: "I never realized that dolphins are being killed here until I saw that creepy-looking blue plastic covering the lagoon."
From October to April, Japanese fishermen will kill more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises as part of their annual hunt. Officials claim the slaughter is a form of “pest control†to offset the amount of fish the dolphins eat. But, the reality is, the butchered dolphins are sold off to supermarkets and grocery stores.
Japanese fishermen have admitted that they are worried the government will soon shut them down in light of international outrage over the hunt.
Contact the Japanese Embassy today and tell Japan to stop the slaughter!
