Taiji supermarket refuses access to Ric O’Barry and Save Japan Dolphins

You think that in this day and age people don’t know what they’re getting involved with when it comes to alcohol, tobacco or fast food? The point is that something which is essentially lethal is being unknowingly consumed. If you try to defend that then you’re not worth arguing with because you have no care for the health of others.

ya but why japan? why not, like nakamura25 said, going to norway? why not russia? why not canadians seal bashing?

They dont even bother to have a Japanese title for the movie. So is he trying to “educate” the Japanese, or attack on their hundreds of years old tradition? You cannot just say, “oh, this is wrong because we said so, and you should stop this”

This is like if Indian Hindus tell Westerners to stop eating cows.(because its wrong, they are sacred, yada yada yada) This is Westerners telling Japanese to stop eating what they have been eating for hundreds of years. Not that i condone dolphin hunting- but people shouldn’t stick their noses in places they dont belong in.

1) Is he a citizen or resident of Japan? If not, he has no right to demand a change of law and disrespect an entire nation based on the completely legal actions of a very tiny minority. If he is “petitioning” for a change of law, why not travel to Tokyo to talk to the lawmakers? Why not get 100,000 signatures of Japanese people opposed to the dolphin hunt? Why does he have to harass the people of Taiji? Because it’s easy.

2) If he was really committed to this cause, O’Barry would travel the world. Sure, he can’t be in two places at once, but he can go to Norway next week and Iceland the week after. The bottom line is that he targets Japanese because it’s easy to attack another ethnicity.

The store owner in the video is just trying to run a business, selling 100% legal products. There is no need to harass him, and it won’t bring about any change. Like I keep saying, it’s easy to attack these people and look superior. That’s all this asshole is looking for.

Have you taken the time to look at the manner in which they slaughter the dolphins? They don’t just kill them, they make it slow and painful to “bring out the flavor of the meat.” The adrenaline “makes it taste better.” Contrast that with the way livestock is humanely slaughtered.

Where it isn’t humanely slaughtered it is prosecuted as cruelty by nearly every government on the planet. People would be less hostile to the practice if it wasn’t so outrageously cruel.