I thank you if you are reading this now because the topic i want to address deserves so much more attention than it is getting. I just went to see an extraordinary documentary called The Cove. Its about illegal whaling/slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Whaling was banned in Japan in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission but still the small town of Taiji, Japan engages in the mass slaughter of them, killing around 23,000 a year. Many of the dolphins caught are also sent around the world to aquariums and "swim with the dolphin" programs where they spend their lives in captivity. Some of them are killed and sold in Japanese markets, labeled as other fish because of the toxic rate of mercury they contain. What's worse is even most of the Japanese people do not know what they're eating. Check out the below preview and please go check out this movie its truly unbelievable and makes you want to take action. Or if you just love dolphins and want to help anyways here's a link you can follow to learn how to get involved!
http://www.takepart.com/thecove/
Thanks for watching and please take action!!
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