Today sees the resumption of the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Dolphins are captured to be used entertaining humans in such facilities as Sea World, while the majority are slaughtered and used as food.

Ironically the dolphin meat contains very high levels of mercury, which acts as a poison. For this reason last year the Japanese government decided to stop feeding dolphin meat to schoolchildren.

The slaughter of dolphins in Japan is the biggest in the world and threatens to reduce the population there to extinction.

Both the cetacean hunters and the Japanese government are complicit in covering up the slaughter and managing it with misinformation and propaganda. This was exposed in the 2009 documentary The Cove.

You can take take action to help save the Taiji dolphins: Save Japan Dolphins