Is shooting dolphins for gastronomic delectation really worse than the way livestock are treated before becoming supermarket steak? A debate reaches from Japan to South America.
BOGOTA — Shark hunting season ended on Jan. 28 in Taiji, the Japanese village that
has become the focus of a worldwide environmentalist outcry. This time Green activists used the Internet to show how 500 bottlenose dolphins were trapped, disabled with nets and harpoons, and then pushed into a cove. Traditional fishermen afloat on a blood-red sea then selected 250 animals to be killed for meat or to sell to marine parks.
This year, the U.S. Ambassador in Japan, Caroline Kennedy, joined the growing chorus of international criticisms when she denounced the custom as inhumane, which promptly provoked the ire of many Japanese.
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Exposing the Big Game 
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One difference is that dolphins have very sophisticated brains.
That’s the standard answer, but cows also have enough brainpower to know fear and experience pain and even suffer the loss of their calves.
I think each situation is unique – to me this argument stymies progress. We must address each incidence of heinous animal cruelty as it arises, not treat it as one. Each species is an individual battle. Incidentally, Lands End has joined the angora fur ban.
Swear to God, that photo I keep seeing of the rabbit that looks all beaten up and swollen, huddled in a corner of a dirty cage makes me want to be sick. We don’t deserve to be called human if we tolerate these things.
Only solution for everyone is to go VEGAN! The only way to true compassion!
Thank you Claudine–that is the only solution!
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