Japs are evil!!!!!!
Japs are evil!!!!!!
Should have finished these bastards off in WWII :firing: :firing:
US Senate resolution condemns violent slaughter of dolphins
A US Senator in Washington DC has condemed the hunting of dolphins and small whales for slaughter as meat and fertilizer or for eventual sale to theme parks and aquaria. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a senate resolution on April 7th to help end the practice known as "drive hunts" and urged participating countries to stop the brutal treatment of these animals.
The cruelty endured by dolphins and whales caught in drive hunts is immense. On board motorized boats, drive hunt fishers loudly bang metal pipes over the side of their boats to disorient the animals and drive them toward shore where they are trapped by nets and stabbed with long knives, usually just behind the blowhole or across the throat.
Many of the animals eventually die from blood loss and hemorrhagic shock or their spinal cord is severed. Fishers sometimes use cranes to haul them out of the water by their tails, often while still alive, to transport them to a nearby slaughterhouse where they are butchered away from public view.
?The inhumane slaughter of these animals is utterly senseless and it must be stopped,? Sen. Lautenberg said. ?The over-exploitation of these highly social and intelligent animals for decades has resulted in the serious decline, and in some cases, the commercial extinction of these species.?
The resolution introduced by Sen. Lautenberg also calls on the United States government to take affirmative steps to expand the scope of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an international convention which was formed to regulate whaling, to allow it to protect dolphins and small whales. The IWC is also urged to make full use of all appropriate diplomatic mechanisms and laws, including trade measures, to put an end to the drive hunts in Japan and other countries.
?Senator Lautenberg is to be applauded for taking the important step of introducing this resolution to protect the animals from the brutal treatment of drive hunts,? said Kitty Block, director of treaty law, oceans and wildlife protection for The Humane Society International. ?We will continue our efforts to expose this cruelty and educate the public to put an end to this inhumane practice.?
Fishers have killed small cetaceans along the coastlines of Japan for centuries with no regard for the humaneness or sustainability of the hunt. Currently, up to 20,000 small cetaceans of several species are killed in Japanese drive and harpoon hunts each year. In the last two decades, more than 400,000 have been slaughtered in Japan alone.
Today, some dolphins caught during Japanese drive hunts are kept alive and set aside for sale to theme parks and aquaria, fetching tens of thousands of dollars each. The high pay off by theme park officials for these animals provides fishers with motivation and justification to continue the drives.
?If marine park patrons knew the brutality and misery suffered by these magnificent animals who appear ?happy? as they jump through hoops and perform other tricks for the audience, most would undoubtedly be horrified,? said Dr. Naomi A. Rose, marine mammal scientist for The HSUS. ?The fact that facilities purporting to be caretakers of marine mammals also subsidize slaughters of those same species must be publicized worldwide.?
?Procurement of animals for entertainment through these grisly drive hunts is not only a violation of the code of ethics of many of these facilities, it is a violation of the public trust on the grounds of conservation and animal welfare,? said Courtney S. Vail, U.S. representative for WDCS.
The gruesome conduct of drive hunts was first caught on film in the 1980s by Hardy Jones, executive director of Blue Voice (bluevoice.org), an organization that works to end the killing of dolphins and whales. Today, Jones continues to document this and other marine atrocities, and his work in the field has been a major impetus in bringing the issue to the current legislative table
