The Famous Taiji Fishermen...Private Space

As you all know of the famous "Private Space", the man who likes to get all up in peoples face, but when he gets it back, he runs away. Typical....**cough, cough** wimp. Him and his famous white boots. I don't get how he can live with himself. I don't get how "they" can live with themselves. Private Space you're known/hated in the States, . I hope one day you get what you deserve. I hope you get all the pain you've made others suffer, I hope you feel the guilt of what you've done. I hope you wake up one day and realize how terrible you are and how pathetic you are. Honestly you don't deserve to live, you don't deserve to breath air. None of Taiji's fishermen deserve that right, but they still walk,talk and breath OUR air. I hope you guys are happy with yourselves, and I hope you tell your kids how you brutally murder dolphins, but you won't because you're all disgusting lowlives.

Mercury Poisoning & slaughter

Over 23 000 dolphins are slaughtered each year in Taiji, Japan. Each dolphin contains 19.2 ppm of mercury. This is a drastic 48 times higher then the 0.4 ppm. The sad thing about this is that the people of Japan don't know that they're consuming these toxic levels of mercury. The dolphin meat is labeled incorrectly in the markets, stating that it's whale meat, when really it's not. The dolphins aren't just slaughtered for their meat but also for the income. See, in Japan a dead dolphin is only a mere $700 and these are the ones used for meat. But once you have buyers for the live ones your price goes up to $154 000 per dolphins. Once the dolphins are rounded up trainers show up to chooses their dolphin, paricularly looking for female bottle nosed dolphins. The rest are left behind awaiting their turns to endure the brutal slaughter which will soon take place. The fishermen in Taiji state that these dolphins are killed in a humane matter, which they are not. Taiji fishermen pierce them with sharp spears repetitively until there's no movement left in the ocean. After the screaming is done the dolphins are then shipped off to the fisheries where they will be yet again mislabeled and sold to the citizens of Taiji. I guess it's just a sick little cycle that needs to be broken, but nobody is willing to try. We're living a dream and we refuse to wake up because of the nightmare that hides behind it. I guess only in Japan can you sit at a dolphin show, while eating what your watching.

The Showing of "The Cove" in Taiji Japan

As you know the documentary "The Cove", is being shown in Taiji. A lot of the movie theatre owners feel threatened, and offended. In no way they should feel this way. This isn't there fault, just because it's happening in their country doesn't mean we should put labels on the Japanese people. In Canada we slaughter seals, and this isn't the doing of all of Canada, it's a certain group of people. I think it's offensive that the Japanese movie theatre owners don't want to show "The Cove" in their theatres. That just shows you don't care about what's happening in your own country. You should feel proud that you're standing up for what you believe in. Don't feel ashamed. Because change is good, and it only needs to start with one person. Some movie theatres have even banned showing the documentary just because it makes their country look bad. I would much rather show the people of Japan what is happening, rather then keeping it a secret, because one day it will come out.

Killer Whales That Kill

At Sea World there has been a killer whale that has killed 3 trainers the past 20 years. The thing that's surprising about this is that they continued to train this whale for there daily show. I don't see why every body is so surprised about this incident. Sure it's tragic that 3 people have died, but come on. I think it's in the name KILLER whale. I think when an animal has a word that includes death, I don't think hanging off it's back is the best idea. The deaths of these 3 trainers just embellish the point that these animals aren't meant to remain in captivity. I recently emailed sea world about the documentary "The Cove", and they pleasantly wrote back that every thing in that documentary was "virtually a lie." As you know Sea world has been purchasing there dolphins from Taiji in the past couple of years, until the US banned any contact with this business. They probably would of continued to fuel this slaughter if it wasn't for the US taking action. Sea World honestly can't say that they think there business offers our community so much. It doesn't. I don't why it takes people so long to realize that they're only in this for the money. They don't care about their animals, because if they did they did then they wouldn't be stuck in the tanks that they are in. Dancing around on a killer whales face would just provoke their animals just about. If only Sea world offered a program that allowed animals to free and still manage to provide an education. It's Sea world's fault that they killed three people because they took a KILLER whale and stuck in a tank to perform tricks.
I don't see why people are fascinated kissing the nose of the worlds largest carnivore.

Dreams That Shatter

The water is clear, but the future is not
Beauty is profound, yet the ugly is first to get noticed
The sound of the beating of a heart is magical, but why do we pay attention the most when one stops?
The sun warms my soul, yet when it goes away the breeze rids my problems
Rainbows hold every colour, yet release no answers
Sand squishes between toes, when the tide comes in it starts all over again
Just like the prints your feet leave behind, when the tide comes, it all goes away
Maybe it's like the slaughter, once we're all dead, the tide comes and it all goes away
I don't think it should be forgotten like this, but it is
Why can't it be like the sound of a silencedheart, that's what it is
Our hearts are silenced, but nobody wants to notice the silence
I guess I'm like the rainbow
I will colour the water a deep red, but in a couple hours my colour will disappear, just like the rainbow
I guess I'm like the Sand, I do leave red in the ocean, but the tide will always take me away to a place where nobody wants to look
Hope can fly
Sorrow can run
Love can catch
But only a dolphin can dream what only will shatter

Ceteans & the IWC

For some reason the IWC isn't protecting Cetaceans or dolphins. In fact they promote the slaughter of Cetaceans. I don't get what this organization is doing to protect animals. I think they are hypocrites, they want to stop the slaughter of certain types of whales, yet they are encouraging it against others. I don't understand this. I recently emailed them, hopefully they will respond soon.

The Cove

I haven't really explained about what happens in Taji, Japan at the cove, so this is what this post will be about.
The cove is near a migratory route that dolphins have been using for years. About 10-15 boats go out with long metal poles, and hit these with hammers. This scares the dolphins since their strongest sense is sonar and hearing. The dolphins in a panic swim away from these boats, herding them towards the cove, where their deaths await them. After the dolphins are getting closer to the cove nets are put down, so the chances of escaping are slim. The dolphins are left for the night until the fishermen return. During this time period panic rises and several baby dolphins or adults brake rib cages due to the thrashing of other dolphins. Some may even die. When the sun rises this is when dolphin trainers from all over the world look for the famous female bottle-nosed dolphins to bring back and train for dolphin shows. The ones that aren't selected are then to be slaughtered. The fishermen just jab their spears into the water hitting whatever is close to them. This is a very slow and painful process, because they are stabbed and left swimming in their own blood just trying to survive. Soon that small lagoon will be full of blood, no blue will remain. After the water is silent, a few divers screen the bottom of that small body of water looking for any alive or dead dolphins. Soon the boats will be out again herding in the next load of dolphins to slaughter. The next ones to enter their death beds. The silence of the water concludes a day of good work performed by the fishermen.