Positive changes resulted from last year’s effort. A major supermarket chain in Japan stopped selling dolphin meat, residents of Hong Kong and elsewhere learned more, and we hope that council members in Taiji, Japan, may help to end the violent slaughter of dolphins there each year.

Another aspect of our protest relates to mercury poisoning. Thousands of Japanese children are fed dolphin meat in the national school-lunch program, although testing shows the meat is heavily contaminated. This is another enormous outrage.

We’ll gather (ideally at noon) outside the Japanese consulate -- at the ground floor, One Exchange Square, in Hong Kong’s Central Business District. Similar protests will happen around the world.

Lee-Ann Ford
Founder, Linking Individuals for Nature Conservation (LINC)
Hong Kong

(September 17, 2007)



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