Dolphin massacre in Japan - video
http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin
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From: "DawnWatch" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:08 AM
Subject: [VeganWay] DawnWatch: Shocking dolphin slaughter on prime
time television -- November 2007
The annual dolphin slaughter has been on again in Taiji, Japan, over the
last few
weeks. Former Flipper trainer turned dolphin advocate, Ric O'Barry, and
other
wonderful activists have been at the killing coves do***enting the horror
and
trying to get the world to take notice. They have had more luck than usual
this
year as they were joined by Heroes star Hayden Panettierre, and
celebrities make
the US media take notice.
But the coverage hasn't been fluff. Even the coverage on E, which did not
show
graphic footage, is worth checking out at http://tinyurl.com/yqywb2
, as
there is
a place to leave comments. The more positive feedback for attention to
animal
issues that the segment gets, the better.
Sky News in the UK shared shocking footage. You can watch the segment on
line
at http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1291049,00.html
and send a "letter to the editor" at
http://www.sky.com/****tal/site/skycom/feedback
In the US, the most impressive coverage I saw was on The Insider. As The
Insider
is a celebrity magazine show, it focused on Hayden's participation, but it
also shared
what might be the most gruesome animal cruelty footage I have ever seen on
prime
time television. Though I could not find anywhere on the site to send
thanks to the
show, surely somebody counts the number of web hits each story gets, so
just
taking a look at it on line will help the animals. Forwarding the link
will help them
more. You'll find it on line at
http://www.theinsideronline.com/news/2007/11/13823/
Most im****tantly, The Insider points us to
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
From that website you can:
-- "Send a message to the International Marine Animal Trainers Association
to
stop doing business with the Taiji dolphin killers"
-- "Send a message to members of the Japanese government - National,
regional,
and local, urging immediate cessation of the drive fishery and immediately
prohibition of the sale of heavily contaminated dolphin meat"
And
--- Donate to help keep the Action Team on the ground in Taiji to
monitor,
witness, investigate, educate, and end the dolphin slaughter:
Please go to www.savejapandolphins.org and act now.
If you see the story in your local paper, please send a letter to the
editor
appreciative of the animal coverage. You may also wish to take the
op****tunity
to call attention to the way some animals are treated closer to home.
(Please go
to http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
if you know little about our
local
horrors.)
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues
in the
media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.
You can learn
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