Can I Please Have a Side of Dolphin With My Mercury?

Looks tasty doesn't it?

Hopefully the last post helped you to see why this massacre is such an outrage... It's not about food!

If it got you fired up... then good. But that's only half the issue.

Interestingly enough, the next reason correlates with the first.

We confirmed and established that the dolphins weren't being killed for food. However, the fishermen of Taiji realized that they would have no reason to kill dolphins if they weren't doing anything with the dead carcasses, so they came up with a brilliant solution... start eating them!

I use that phrase loosely. The wording should be more like, "Start selling the meat to the Japanese school systems!"

That's exactly what they started doing.

If only the kid's knew what they were eating... and if only the parents knew the effect this would have on their children.

We'll go more into depth on this issue with scientific findings and history lessons in the next post.

Happy Fishing!

*Let's Clear a Few Things Up

I may not have made it clear in my last post as to exactly why this dolphin massacre is an outrage. Hopefully this post will clear things up.

Ok, so first we established that dolphins are awesome. I think everybody can agree... Great.

Then we established that killing dolphins is wrong. However, some people disagreed, stating that while killing dolphins for food may seem wrong to Americans, it's a part of Japanese culture and must be respected. We kill hundreds of thousands of pigs and cows in the United States to feed our people, so who are we to decide which animals are or aren't okay to eat?

This is where the misconception lies.

IT IS NOT ABOUT FOOD.

The massacre is an outrage because it is a form of pest control.

"As shocking as it sounds, some Japanese government officials view dolphins as pests to be eradicated in huge numbers. During a meeting at Taiji City Hall, the fishermen of Taiji admitted this to us. "We don't kill the dolphins primarily for their meat. We kill them as a form of pest control," they told us. In other words, killing the competition is their way of preserving the ocean's fish for themselves."

-SaveJapanDolphins.org

Makes you look at the situation in a whole new way, doesn't it?