Every year starting in the month of September and ending in the month of May the village of Taiji in Japan begin an annual event where they send boats out and use sound waves to drive pods of wild dolphins and small whales into a cove and trap them using nets. The animals are then slaughtered using inhumane techniques in front each other and or are chosen and taken from their family's and sold to aquariums and theme parks all over the world that's including places like seaworld. Dolphin meat is eaten by a very miniscule portion of the Japanese population and the meat is so high in levels of mercury its unsafe to eat. Tajai Japan go to great lengths to cover up what happens. More than 20,000 animals die each year or are ripped apart from their family's.



