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Free the dolphins

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Monday, October 24, 2005

So, columnist Alan Ferguson witnessed a pig slaughter and stopped eating bacon.

Good for him.

I've seen a dolphin slaughter in Japan, which turns the entire bay blood red and my face sickly green.

The sound of dolphins screaming, audible for hundreds of metres, is heart-rending.

Many of the dolphins hauled out by hooks into boats had their bellies slashed open and their viscera hanging out. There were dead baby dolphins sloshing in the crimson tide.

Before the slaughter, divers went in to pick a few of the younger, unblemished dolphins, particularly females, for captivity.

They tear mothers from their babies and family members from each other.

At $20,000 per captured dolphin and only $600 per dolphin killed for meat, it is the capture industry which fuels the slaughter.

The Vancouver Aquarium imported two "rescued" dolphins from Japan.

The Japanese aquarium unloaded two blemished dolphins to Vancouver. With its money, the Japanese aquarium can now buy several more unblemished dolphins landed from the ocean at Taiji.

Keeping whales and dolphins in captivity for human entertainment is intrinsically evil.

Anthony Marr,

Heal Our Planet Earth
© The Vancouver Province 2005