dolphins

The Cove: American hippies vs the evil Japanese

As with so many documentaries these days, The Cove is actually a film about making a film.

Japan Gets Its First Chance to See 'The Cove'

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The Cove — a U.S. documentary has been called "advocacy filmmaking at its best" since its release on July 31 — depicts Taiji's centuries-old tradition of killing dolphins with an unflinching eye on the sometimes gruesome process.

Dolphins being massacred poisoning the Japanese who eat them

http://www.dailymail.co.uk –

At the heart of a Japanese nature reserve, a horror story is unfolding.
Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death. Hundreds more will be sold into captivity, where they will die lingering deaths from stress and disease.

The dolphins are captured and slaughtered just off the southern Japanese fishing village of Taiji.