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An environmental activist and poet with a deeply rooted passion for this beautiful planet.
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Many have heard of the popular Japanese Whalers who kill whales in the name of "Scientific Purpose", but these Japanese fishermen are open about what their intentions are: and that is to kill dolphins.
"Every year on the first of September, in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.
Twenty-six fishermen in 13 boats corral a few dozen dolphins into a small cove, where they kill the animals by stabbing them repeatedly with long harpoons and knives. The 50-square-foot (4.6-square-meter) inlet turns crimson, as if filled only with blood.
In the course of a six-month season, fishermen kill roughly 2,000 dolphins and sell the meat to local supermarkets for about U.S. $500 a dolphin. "
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