Did I call it or what? I told you Japan was going to start getting bad press.
They elected the wrong people.
"Carnage in a cove in Japan exposed; Film focuses awareness on dolphin slaughter" by John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times | September 20, 2009
I am against the killing; however, we must look and allow for culture. Not saying it is right, but we must attempt to understand other traditions before wrecking them with Americanization -- even when it is the right thing.
TAIJI, Japan - The result is part graphic horror flick, part suspense thriller, and part “gotcha’’ movie - its dramatic scenes of determined undercover police giving chase to cameramen ending with chilling footage of churning water stained red....
“I know people think we are all barbarians,’’ Councilman Hisato Ryono said. “There has to be another way to kill these creatures without making them suffer. But I don’t know what it is.’’
Especially when we are talking food. Veganism is the answer; however, one can understand the Japanese diet given the geography.
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Canada, the Faeroe Islands, and Denmark also hunt dolphin....
Oh really? How come there is no article of outrage about them?
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