Sometimes, a man can get blinded by his own belief, thinking his view is a universally accepted golden rule. You may not believe this, but “animal rights” are not established rights outside your cult. If you think otherwise, prove it.

“And if they do continue to selfishly keep killing off these animals, they WILL be extinct.”
No, they will not. Dolphins are renewable resources just like any sea animals. Just compare seafood and cattle. Which is more environmentally friendly? To raise a cow you need very big farmland from which you have to drive all the wild life out. Think again.

It just shows how REALLY inhuman people really are, caring for cute cuddly animals rather than their own people.

What the fishermen are doing is to threaten and phisically abuse

I saw a Japanese guy yelling, but I didn’t see him physically abusing.

if they attract police attetion, it would certainly become clear that their product contains higher than allowed mercury level by the Japanese government.

There were police men on the video.I guess the fishermen called them.

Besides, even if you have done something inacceptable for the Japanese society, would you accept your innocent wife and your child to be abused and called names in public?

？？？？ Where were innocent wife and child on the video?

according to 広辞苑、目障りis　ものを見るのにじゃまになること and見て不愉快に感ずること

According to new century Japanese English dictionary,
めざわり【目障り】
an eyesore（※見ると不快になる物）; a distraction（※気を散らす物・人）.

I can’t view your first two links because they say,
YouTube のユーザー コミュニティから不適切な動画として報告
BTW　I am glad Japanese and Koreans are getting along well on this.
日韓クジラ料理試食会では「味の競演」も
http://www.whaling.jp/news/070525st.html

Japanese conservationism and sustainability?!?!?

I’m reminded that the only sea lion known to have become extinct is the … Japanese Sea Lion! Hunted to extinction in the 50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Sea_Lion

What do you want to say about Japanese conservationism citing this case?

I actually think this whale and dolphin business is designed to divert attention away from Japan’s hideous over-fishing of other species like tuna.

Any evidence?

http://www.victorschonfeld.com/

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=5FBKeYXgm_w

Not much laughing… some abuse maybe, but what do you expect from angry meat-heads

You think all this anti-whaling, anti-dolphin stuff is just anti-JAPAN don’t you?

But it is true that Japanese schoolchildren are faced with brutal and violent death right before their very eyes. I once personally witnessed a housewife stomping, mercilessly, on a poor harmless cockroach right in front of two young impressionable girls.

I’m reminded that the only sea lion known to have become extinct is the … Japanese Sea Lion! Hunted to extinction in the 50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Sea_Lion

I actually think this whale and dolphin business is designed to divert attention away from Japan’s hideous over-fishing of other species like tuna.

Anyway, wrt dolphins, I’ve asked several of my Japanese friends about the Taiji hunt (in a diplomatic way of course) and they’ve all replied along the lines of “Heeeehh? Japanese don’t eat dolphins!! Where did you hear that??”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuSULcqgxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85srTdF5YXQ

As an American, I am not blind to the inhumane practices we do to our own animals. I just believe that maybe if Americans will watch this, we will look back on how we treat our ‘dinner’ and maybe make some changes ourselves.

I hope you are reborn as a Japanese dolphin, my friend.

Very well written article.

http://www.kansaikouen.org/

Time to carefully manage what is by nature a renewal resource (i.e. food from the sea) instead of just take take take until there isn’t any more left.

But that would require something very rare – the smart fisherman – so it’s unlikely to happen until at least a few species are completely gone.

http://www.aha-projekte.de/publicblue/

there is your documentary.

…its not just rich white kids who know that meat is murder… why should your slippery slope stop at just animals?

I almost rich I was a rich white kid with rich white kid guilt and not have to worry about getting a real job so I could take international trips and make videos and hang out with Hollywood has beens and get awards from artsy snobs.

On second thought, no I don’t.

A long time ago man called a dog – and the dog came running. Man thought “good dog, you’ll be my friend”.

Then man called a cow – the cow walked away. Man thought “Where the hell is the cow going? Stupid cow, you’ll be my dinner.”

Although personally, I think this is backwards. You could stand there with a butcher knife and meathook in your hands, and a dog will still come. Cows know better.