*How could this happen...

I love dolphins.

If I were to be any animal in the animal kingdom, I would undoubtedly be a dolphin. Think about it; you're still a mammal, you live in the ocean, you eat and play in the waves all day, sharks are your bitch, and best of all, you're the only other species besides humans that has sex for pleasure...SCORE. To top it all off, dolphins are one of the smartest creatures in the ocean.

These loving creatures have been a large part of our lives. Dolphins swim with humans, they perform tricks at dolphin centers, they interact with children in dolphin programs, they appear as lead roles in television (think Flipper), and have even been used by humans to detect sea mines during times of war.

Then please let me know why humans would do this...

In the small fishing town of Taiji, Japan, there is a dolphin massacre taking place. They are not killing these animals for food. They are killing them because their diets consist of the same fish that the Japanese catch and sell to the markets. This massacre is cruel, unnecessary, and of epic proportions. Worst of all, the government of Taiji is protecting this ritual, and the mercury laden dolphin meat is finding its way into the lunches of Japanese school systems.

This is sickening, and something must be done.

This blog is here to create awareness and motivate global citizens to put pressure on the Japanese government to end this massacre. Throughout this blog, I will be bringing up specific issues regarding the massacre and its impact on the citizens of Japan, the dolphin population, and global treaties.

The man who we are targeting is the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe. Through an enormous online petition, we seek to outlaw the killing of dolphins, and as a first step, to require the Japanese government to put warning labels on dolphin meat, informing Japanese citizens of the dangerous levels of mercury that the meat contains.