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This 10 page paper discusses the conflict over the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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controversy has grown. This paper explores the conflict between the protestors and the Japanese who argue this is part of their traditional cultural practice. Discussion A search for information about
the slaughter of the dolphins brought up article after article about actress Hayden Panettiere of the television show Heroes, who went to Japan to join activists who were trying to
stop this years culling. It took some searching to find articles that were more concerned with the slaughter than with the celebrities who were protesting it, showing once again that
the media appears to be more interested in trendy people than in actual meaningful reporting. Be that as it may, there are some valuable sources describing the practice and
the conflict surrounding it. David McNeill, who often writes for the London Independent, discusses the dolphin hunt in Taiji and the reasons for it, and why it continues. (The article
he wrote was composed in January, 2007; he discusses the 2006 hunt.) He describes Taiji as a "sleepy harbor town at the tip of the Kii peninsula south of Kyoto"
(McNeill). By October of last year, approximately 2,000 "small whales and striped, bottlenose, spotted and rissos dolphins have been slaughtered for meat that ends up on the tables of local
homes and restaurants and in vacuum-packed bags in supermarkets" (McNeill). Estimates are that by March, 2007, the Japanese will have culled nearly 26,000 cetaceans, the largest such hunt in the
world (McNeill). The reason why this practice has remained largely a secret is due to the villages isolation. Its approximately six hours from Tokyo "and accessible only via a coastal
road that snakes through tunnels hewn from dense, pine-carpeted mountains" (McNeill). Being so far off the beaten track, Taiji has managed to escape the "prying eyes of animal rights activists,
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