It's a grim picture. Beautiful dolphins being shepherded into a bay, the backdoor closed by nets, and the bay filling up with blood. Click here for Sky News video page.
Global Surf News has a story on a bunch of surfers who are getting involved, trying to protest the slaughter, which conventionally starts now and ends in December. Sky News footage showed a young blond surfer in tears.
Actress Hayden Panettiere has been involved in a violent confrontation with Japanese fishermen as she tried to disrupt their annual dolphin slaughter.
Click here for that story.
Fishermen defend dolphin cull.
NVDL: It's an emotional rather than a logical reaction. Should we not eat certain animals just because they are more or less like us? So no dolphins, chimps or monkeys, but pigs, cows and chickens are fine?
It does make sense to me to consume lower down the food chain, especially from the point of view that vegetarian foods suit the human gut better than meat. Have we become flesh eating chimps, and as such, aggressive, insatiable, at times suffering a kind of carnivorous blood lust not just for food...?
Chimpanzees do fight to death when tribes encounter other tribes, and bizarrely, the winners eat their victims. This cannibalisation may be to instill a terrible fear in their opponents, as human cannibals did once upon a time. But this trend can sometimes be modified into a more generalised love of meat. I've seen cockatiels that start to enjoy eating the yokes of eggs that they crack open accidentally, and then they become involuntarily addicted to the taste.
Meanwhile, back to the story at hand. When I was in Korea for the Fifa World Cup there was a domestic sense of putting aside dog meat - at least until the visitors left. The Asians tend to eat everything fishy, from jellyfish, to eels, seaweed, to those poisonous spiky blow fish (despite a fair amount of people who die every year for the privilege) and so it's no surprise that dolphin is part of the menu.
I'd expect the Japanese to get a LOT of flack once again over this. It's a big PR blow to that country. Then again, the Asians think we are sick in the head to be drinking a white liquid that cows feed to their calves - that we put that stuff over our cornflakes, and put a rotten form of the stuff into our salads and sandwiches.
To each his own...?
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