September marks yet another dolphin hunting season in Japan, where more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed every year, and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marine parks will pay over $150,000 for a captured dolphin. These parks, falsely presented as conservation efforts, are nothing more than businesses and zoos, and only encourage the hunting and slaughter of creatures deemed by some governments as sentient. 

 

 

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