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Friday, January 27, 2012

Mortality Rate in Dolphin Eating Taiji Town

Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research has cited mortality figures in Taiji, for 2007, at 67 deaths from a population of some 3,500 residents — putting the town's overall mortality rate more than 50 percent above other villages nationwide of roughly the same population. However Kozagawa, west of Taiji, where dolphin meat is also consumed, showed an even higher rate — with 82 deaths from a population of 3,426 people in 2007.
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3 comments:

  1. LindieOJanuary 27, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    And yet the Japanese Gov't continues to slaughter dolphins for human consumption. This is so unconscionable it's beyond understanding, but I begin to wonder if the Japanese Gov't is holding out on its own people to spite other countries that find whaling & dolphin-killing reprehensible. If so, how shameful!

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  2. carebearJanuary 30, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    JAPAN IS IN THE WRONG FOR THE SLAUGHTER AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY ARE EVEN HURTING THERE OWN PEOPLE BUY SLAUGHTERING DOLPHINS AND WHALES THEY REALIZE THEY ARE MAKEING THERE PEOPLE SICK THATS WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS MESS!

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  3. AnonymousJune 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM

    Last weekend b4 "A Red Letter Day For Dolphins" July 2nd target mailings of red envelopes with your heartfelt pleas to stop the dolphin hunts in Taiji, Japan.
    Please send your letter, with international postage.
    Have a dolphin party! Get your friends involved!
    All the info you need is on http://savingdolphins.net/
    And check out the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Red-Letter-Day-For-Dolphins/363157283701303

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