The following is not funny. The following can be unpleasant to watch if you can't stand blood. The following... is real. Every year over 23.000 dolphins get slaughtered on this extremely cruel way in just 1 town in Japan. The Dolphins are being driven into a cliff around this island, and there they are held captive and they are tortured for over 40 hours. After that, 1 by 1 they will get pierced by spears by local fishermen in boats. 1 strike often doesn't kill them, and it can take hours before the second strike hits them, because the fishermen are too busy with killing the other dolphins. Spoiler Can be considered inappropriate . This is pretty much a summary of the documentary. watch this! Blood, horror and crime starts at 4.33 if you only want to see that, or want to avoid it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXxChXb0uI[/youtube] These creatures are smart. They can feel pain, they can communicate. See the video, see the blood, see the murder and think. Think. I know I'll never be the same after watching this. The way they are being killed is intensely cruel. and it's all for nothing, because the flesh of a dolphin is poisoned with mercury. A healthy dolphin contains over 20 times the legal amount of mercury allowed in food by international food organisations. Yet the flesh is given to school children as lunch in Japan, without the parents even knowing it's dolphin meat. The Japanese government knows this is happening, in fact, they pay the fishermen who do this. Watch the documentary "The Cove" for the whole story please. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.takepart.com/thecove" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.takepart.com/thecove</a> I know that for a lot of you all knowing geeks this is probably old, but this story has to be spread and it has to be kept alive until these crazy actions in Taiji stop.
got this dvd at home and watched it...those japanese slaughter in taji must be stopped. supporting this issue!!