Dolphin Murdered by thousands

Animal cruelty is animal cruelty, just as cruelty to people is cruelty to people. Some would exclude banning or protesting certain human practices out of respect to cultural difference. My answer is although some sub-cultures still believe it is ok to enslave others, or that forcing sex on women and children or permissible - the global culture will no longer tolerate such practices.

Killing, slaughtering dolphins just because you can and have done so is no longer acceptable global behavior!

clipped from www.independent.co.uk Captured on film: dolphin bloodbath Japan tries to hide Documentary 'The Cove' shows dolphins driven to death or captivity by the fishermen of Taiji On Wednesday, the same gruesome sequence of events will unfold. And so it will continue for six months, until the dolphin hunting season concludes. Around Japan, about 20,000 of the gentle, intelligent mammals are killed every year, more than 2,000 of them in Taiji, which – according to a new film, The Cove – is the site of the world's largest dolphin slaughter. Although dolphins belong to the same family as whales, they are not protected by the international ban on commercial whaling.