it is awesome when we win one! Thank you to all the great groups mentioned!

Did anyone catch that dolphins are being heavily poisoned with mercury by the U.S. and other countries?

We don't have that right to poison the waters or the earth.

peace,
Paul

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How long can media attention be maintained?

It's a shame that that is what's necessary.

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This film is finally waking up the world to the massacre of Dolphins in Taiji. Even some Japanese didn't know that it was happening! Bravo to Ric O'Barry who never gives up! Thank you AlterNet for the great news!

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I am so happy to hear this is very very good news,I pray that this is really the beginning of the end of the Japanese slaughter at the covein Taiji.I wish they would not go whaleing anymore also,Boycott all things from Japan and the Japanese bid for Olympics until they stop these barbaric practices.Support the fight! donate to Sea Shepard(buy some tshirts if that's allya can do,write your Reps,Write Japan and other countries that practicewhaleing and Dolphin slaughter, and sealing,Yes they still are killing baby seals with clubs in the 21st century,unbelievable I know...and Canada Shame on you,pretendingtobe such a nice andpolite society,while you outlaw people from video tapeing your gruesome slaughter of the baby seals.

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I know Louis, and most of the members of OPS, and I can tell you that this is a HUGE victory for the Dolphins. Most of the guys who filmed this are no longer allowed into Japan because of their activities. If you haven't seen this movie, go see it today. It is simultaneously compelling and disturbingly awful. After the dolphins are slaughtered and sold off for entertainment or false whale meat, they were giving it to children for school lunch programs. The levels of Mercury in the meat is toxic for humans, and is a lead cause of birth defects in that country. On the whole, the Japanese are a great people with rich tradition, but we as a world community must put pressure on them, through shame and exposure, to shut down both their dolphin and whale slaughtering industries.

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coverage here. I caught this at 11pm tonight on Channel 4, "News Zero". It got about 1 minute of air time with most of the interviews with the locals who expressed resentment with Rick Perry and OPS meddling in domestic affairs, not to mention the local livelihood of Taiji.
With the killing of innocents going on in Afghanistan at the hands of US forces (and some UN forces as well), most everyday Japanese folk groan in disbelef at the hypocrisy of those Americans, Aussies, New Zealanders, etc. rattling on about the so-called slaughtering of dolphins and whales.
If you've no qualms about killing people, what gives you the right to rant on about dolphins and whales?
Please take it elsewhere.
PS: Sea Shepard and her crew are no better than Somali pirates. You'd think they take a more diplomatic approach. More hypocrisy again.
Hope the damn tub sinks the next time around. LOL!

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Misturu Kakimoto of the Japanese Vegetarian Society writes: “A survey that I conducted of 80 Westerners, including Americans, Englishmen and Canadians, revealed that approximately half of them believed that vegetarianism originated in India. Some respondents assumed that vegetarianism had its origin in China or Japan. It seems to me that the reason Westerners associate vegetarianism with China or Japan is Buddhism. It is no wonder, and in fact we could say that Japan used to be a country where vegetarianism prevailed.”

Gishi-wajin-denn, a history book on Japan written in China around the third century BC, says, “Thre are no cattle, no horses, no tigers, no leopards, no goats and no magpies in that land. The climate is mild and people over there eat fresh vegetables both in summer and in winter.” It also says that “people catch fish and shellfish in the water.” Apparently, the Japanese ate fresh vegetables as well as rice and other cereals as staple foods. They also took some fish and shellfish, but hardly any meat.

Shinto, the prevailing religion at the time, is essentially pantheistic, based upon the worship of the forces of nature. According to writer Steven Rosen, in the early days of Shinto, no animal food was offered in sacrifice because of the injunction against shedding blood in the sacred area of the shrine.

Several hundred years later, Buddhism came to Japan and the prohibition of hunting and fishing permeated the Japanese people. In 7th century Japan, the Empress Jito encouraged “hojo,” or the releasing of captive animals, and established wildlife preserves, where animals could not be hunted.

There are many similarities between the Hindu literature and the Buddhist religions of the Far East. For example, the word Cha’an of the Cha’an school of Chinese Buddhism is Chinese for the Sanskrit word “dhyana”, which means meditation, as does the word “Zen” in Japanese. In 676 AD, then Japanese emperor Tenmu proclaimed an ordinance prohibiting the eating of fish and shellfish as well as animal flesh and fowl. Subsequently, in the year 737 of the Nara period, the emperor Seimu approved the eating of fish and shellfish.

During the twelve hundred years from the Nara period to the Meiji restoration in the second half of the 19th century, Japanese people enjoyed vegetarian style meals. They usually ate rice as staple food and beans and vegetables. It was only on special occasions or celebrations that fish was served. Under these circumstances the Japanese people developed a vegetarian cuisine, Shojin Ryori (ryori means cooking or cuisine), which was native to Japan.

The word “shojin” is a Japanese translation of “vyria” in Sanskrit, meaning “to have the goodness and keep away evils.” Buddhist priests of the Tendai-shu and Shingon-shu sects, whose founders studied in China in the ninth century before they founded their respective sects, have handed down vegetarian cooking practices from Chinese temples strictly in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha.

In the 13th century, Dogen, the founder of the Soto sect of Zen, formally established Shojin Ryori or Japanese vegetarian cuisine. Dogen studied and learned the Zen teachings abroad in China, during the Sung Dynasty. He fixed rules aiming to establish the pure vegetarian life as a means of training the mind.

One of the other influences Zen exerted on the Japanese people manifested itself in Sado, the Japanese tea ceremony. It is believed that Esai, founder of the Rinazi-shu sect, introduced tea to Japan and it is the custom for Zen followers to drink tea. The customs preserved in the teaching of Zen lead to a systematic rule called Sado…a Cha-shitsu or tea ceremony room is so constructed as to resemble the Shojin, where the chief priest is at a Buddhist temple.

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Food served at a tea ceremony is called Kaiseki in Japanese, which literally means a stone in the breast. Monks practicing asceticism used to press heated stones to their bosom to suppress hunger. Then the word Kaiseki itself came to mean a light meal served at Shojin, and Kaiseki meals had great influence on the Japanese.

The “Temple of the Butchered Cow” can be found in Shimoda, Japan. It was erected shortly after Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1850s. It was erected in honor of the first cow slaughtered in Japan, marking the first violation of the Buddhist tenet against the eating of meat.

An example of a Buddhist vegetarian in the modern age: Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese writer and poet of the early 20th century, who wrote a novel entitled Vegetarian-Taisai, in which he depicted a fictitious vegetarian congress…His works played an important role in the advocacy of modern vegetarianism. Today, no animal flesh is ever eaten in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and such Buddhist denominations as the Cao Dai sect (which originated in South Vietnam), now boasts some two million followers, all of whom are vegetarian.

The Buddhist teachings are not the only source contributing to the growth of vegetarianism in Japan. in the late 19th century, Dr. Gensai Ishizuka published an academic book in which he advocated vegetarian cooking with an emphasis on brown rice and vegetables. His method is called Seisyoku (Macrobiotics) and is based upon ancient Chinese philosophy such as the principles of Yin and Yang and Taoism.

In his 1923 book, The Natural Diet of Man, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg writes: “According to Mori, the Japanese peasant of the interior is almost an exclusive vegetarian. He eats fish once or twice a month and meat once or twice a year.” Dr. Kellogg writes that in 1899, the Emperor of Japan appointed a commission to determine whether it was necessary to add meat to the nation’s diet to improve the people’s strength and stature. The commission concluded that as far as meat was concerned, “the Japanese had always managed to do without it, and that their powers of endurance and their athletic prowess exceeded that of any of the Caucasian races. Japan’s diet stands on a foundation of rice.”

According to Dr. Kellogg: “the rice diet of the Japanese is supplemented by the free use of peanuts, soy beans and greens, which… constitute a wholly sufficient bill of fare. Throughout the Island Empire, rice is largely used, together with buckwheat, barley, wheat and millet. Turnips and radishes, yams and sweet potatoes are frequently used, also cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes. The soy bean is held in high esteem and used largely in the form of miso, a puree prepared from the bean and fermented; also tofu, a sort of cheese; and cho-yu, which is prepared by mixing the pulverized beans with wheat flour, salt, and water and fermenting from one and a half to five years.

“The Chinese peasant lives on essentially the same diet, as do also the Siamese, the Koreans, and most other Oriental peoples. Three-fourths of the world’s population eats so little meat that it cannot be regarded as anything more than an incidental factor in their bill of fare. The countless millions of China,” writes Dr. Kellogg, “are for the most part flesh-abstainers. In fact at least two-thirds of the inhabitants of the world make so little use of flesh that it can hardly be considered an essential part of their dietary…”

Misturu Kakimoto concludes: “Japanese people started eating meat some 150 years ago and now suffer the crippling diseases caused by the excess intake of fat in flesh and the possible hazards from the use of agricultural chemicals and additives. This is persuading them to seek natural and safe food and to adopt once again the traditional Japanese cuisine.”

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http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-090901-1.html

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This is fantastic news. Please go see the film while it's still out! It's a great way to show public support for the issue!

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while most of the big environmental non-profits are mostly busy raising funds for their cars and carpets... seashepard gets rammed by the canadians, rammed and shot at by the japanese; help remove rightwinger from power in ecuador in the process of rescuing galapagos from destruction, etc. canada seized the seashepard ship the marley fowat and both canada and japan has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to have the USA declare them to be a terrorist group. for years and years, seashepard went to the annual taiji slaughter trying desperately to draw the world's attention to this tragedy...

btw... john lilly, psychopharmacologist turned LSD-prophet who went into exile and became the founder of inter-species communications and was the focus of the 70s movie, 'day of the dolphin.' in his fabulously important late 1960s book, 'metaprogramming the human biocomputer,' he posed a thesis which has been largely accepted by the biological sciences community. called 'the 9 configurations,' he showed that the 1st config is a single-celled organism with a single command in its program and no way to change. as we come up the ladder to evermore complex organisms, we reach creatures; then creatures which can learn; then we arrive at the 9th configuration, including man, which can not only learn how to learn BUT CAN CHANGE THEIR PROGRAM, not only as a group but as individuals.

lilly believed, as i and many others, that psychedelic agents can play a crucial role in the process of seeing and changing the buggy programs.

but of relevance to this article is that according to lilly, dolphins and whales (and perhaps other mammals, such as elephants), may actually be higher than man in terms of the configuration. after living and interacting for many years with dolphins; lilly believed that they were at 9.3, telepathic, musical, psychedelic, sexy and WISE.

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I wish we could put this much effort into saving sharks.

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In 2004 I turned a computer on for the first time.

One of the very first petitions I signed was to stop the slaughter of the dolphines in the Cove.

I'm glad people finally did something. But...when the cameras leave...the slaughter will begin.

The Japanese fishermen are relentless when it comes to killing the Whales and Dolphines.

Until the international community enforces the laws and stops allowing Japan to kill under the quise of research their murdering will continue.

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Put a sticker on the back of your Honda,don't buy Sushi and tell the producer why you won't, don't buy clothing with Japanese style. Put products in the garbage with a big sign. Find a way to show disapproval for the horror. Here's a recent article of what's happening during the slaughter.http://www.thestar.com/article/694948

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