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Ein mutiger Journalist bringt Delfin-Massaker an die Öffentlichkeit
Boyd Harnell/Japan Times - 8. Juni 2007
Boyd Harnell ist Journalist bei den Japan Times. Er war während der Delfin-Treibjagd 2006/2007 Zeuge des barbarischen Abschlachtens einer hoch intelligenten Spezies. Boyd Harnell hat mich angeschrieben, weil er Stefan Meisters Stellungnahme zum Delfin-Massaker in Taiji/Japan bei den Meeresakrobaten gelesen hat. Er ist sehr verärgert über Meisters Darstellung, dass die für die Delfinarien-Industrie ausgesuchten Großen Tümmler nichts von dem Gemetzel an ihren Artgenossen mitbekommen würden. Er bezeichnet dies als infame Lüge.
Boyd Harnell wörtlich: These dolphins were captured in a drive hunt I witnessed and their mothers were slaughtered. Meister is dead wrong about how the live ones are handled during the cruel, "Dr. Mengele" type selection process for choosing show dolphins. I saw small skiffs used to herd the dolphins run over some that were tied to poles on the beach of the capture cove. Some drowned. The whole process was a messy, unprofession affair. The trainers were also on the beach not monitoring the activity of some of the struggling dolphins. All of the captured dolphins are hyperventilating during this activity and some die of shock. As a longtime diver interacting with dolphins, I see nothing educational about the drive hunts. The spatial confinement of the Taiji whale museum is the worst of any facility of its kind. Only eco tours benefit dolphins and humans alike by allowing these intelligent mammals to exist and interact with humans on their own terms.
To refute more of what Meister says, the selection of show dolphins sometimes takes place in the killing cove and the dolphins there witness their pod mates being killed. All of this activity takes place at the same location in a national park, the Yoshino Kumano Kokuritsu Koen. Nothing is carried out in a humane way. This is a dolphin holocaust and the ones saved are sent to a dolphin labor camp to be fed dead fish only when they do the "trick" right.
The second photo shows panicked dolphins hyperventilating right after being herded into the capture cove. Sometimes they are injured when they crash into each other during the herding process. The baby dolphins are always separated from their mothers who are usually slaughtered for food - but sometimes selected as show dolphins. The first photo depicts orphaned baby dolphins whose mothers were killed during a dolphin drive hunt. Since the babies were still nursing they were not able to survive long on the whale museum's substitute milk formula, according to a source in Taiji.
Selten wird in japanischen Medien über das Treiben in Taiji, 700 Kilometer von Tokio entfernt, berichtet. Lediglich die englisch-sprachige "Japan-Times" hat bisher über das sich jährlich wiederholende Massaker informiert. Das Blatt erhielt für die Berichterstattung des Journalisten Boyd Harnell über den japanischen Delfinmord den angesehenen "International Genesis Award"-Tierschutzpreis. "Dies ist die barbarischste Tiermisshandlung, die ich jemals als Journalist recherchiert habe", so Harnells Worte.
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