Dolphin slaughter and capture in Taiji Japan

These shocking images were only made aware to me by watching the award winning film "The Cove". I've been a dolphin lover for years and had no idea this was going on. Annually 20,000 dolphins in Japan alone are being hunted and brutally killed. Fishermen lure the dolphins into a small bay where a small percentage are removed and taken to marine parks and the rest are beaten to death. Many of the dolphins are dumped where as some are used for school dinners. Children are secretly fed dolphin which has dangerously high mercury levels.