No, this is not an introductory college course on the captive dolphin industry. One hundred and one is the number of dolphins cruelly taken from the wild over a 6-day tragedy in Taiji. I recently wrote to a journalist the following: I know no other cause as worthy of my time as the dolphin cause. It is painful as hell to be a dolphin supporter.
Why is it so painful? When you know that young ones will never see their parents again, your heart breaks. When it happens one hundred and one times, what do you do to mend your broken heart?
To add lasting insult to injury, what do you do when you see the cove turn red because 23 dolphins are being murdered while their family members are swimming nearby, unable to do anything to stop the madness? Again, how do you heal your broken heart?
You write poems. You listen to music. You find joy and laughs when and where you can. And sometimes, you pour your heart out into a blog...
When I was young -- maybe 4 years old, I want to say -- my family and I went to SeaWorld in California. Can I tell you what my favorite memory was going there? It wasn't the show. (And you might argue that's my animal rights activist self re-writing history. No, it's not.)
My favorite memory from that trip to SeaWorld was riding around in a stroller, pushed around by my family. (To be perfectly honest, the simplest things made me happy.)
I would say, if you're a parent or a grandparent, and you're thinking of ways to entertain your children or grandchildren, please -- for the love of dolphins -- do not take them to SeaWorld or any other place where dolphins are held captive, against their will.
Take them to the park. Take them to the mall. Take them to the library. Take them to see a children's theatre production.
But please don't take them to a place that directly or indirectly supports Taiji's captive dolphin trade / slaughter. These places may tell you they oppose drive hunts / drive fisheries; however, by the very nature of holding dolphins in unnatural habitats, the captive dolphin industry fuels what Taiji is doing.
"If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights."
-Captain Paul Watson
Let's not forget that captivity is a synonym for slavery.
Please help my broken heart.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Sunday, December 02, 2012
A Letter to the International Whaling Commission
Please e-mail secretariat@iwcoffice.org right now. Copy and paste the below and say you support this letter, or write your own, but either way, please demand change for the Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales, who need us to speak up for them.
Dear Members of the IWC Secretariat,
I have spent quite some time learning about the International Whaling Commission. I understand that, as of now, you do not have protections in place for whales such as the Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales that are currently netted in Taiji's killing cove in Japan (2 December, 2012). They await their fate in the morning. What is stopping us -- the world -- from saving all whales, regardless of size and regardless of the mouth make-up they have?
Per your website: "The 1946 Convention does not define a ‘whale’, although a list of names in a number of languages was annexed to the Final Act of the Convention. Some Governments take the view that the IWC has the legal competence to regulate catches of only these named great whales (the baleen whales and the sperm whale). Others believe that all cetaceans, including the smaller dolphins and porpoises, also fall within IWC jurisdiction."
Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales may be "smaller cetaceans," but they are, in fact, whales. I am among the "others" who believe that all cetaceans should be protected for the future of our planet. We are running out of time.
Please do what you can this very moment to urge Japan, a member of the IWC, to end Taiji's dolphin/whale hunts, live capture, and slaughter. This has gone on for far too long.
Respectfully,
Allison Cabellon
New York, NY
Dear Members of the IWC Secretariat,
I have spent quite some time learning about the International Whaling Commission. I understand that, as of now, you do not have protections in place for whales such as the Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales that are currently netted in Taiji's killing cove in Japan (2 December, 2012). They await their fate in the morning. What is stopping us -- the world -- from saving all whales, regardless of size and regardless of the mouth make-up they have?
Per your website: "The 1946 Convention does not define a ‘whale’, although a list of names in a number of languages was annexed to the Final Act of the Convention. Some Governments take the view that the IWC has the legal competence to regulate catches of only these named great whales (the baleen whales and the sperm whale). Others believe that all cetaceans, including the smaller dolphins and porpoises, also fall within IWC jurisdiction."
Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales may be "smaller cetaceans," but they are, in fact, whales. I am among the "others" who believe that all cetaceans should be protected for the future of our planet. We are running out of time.
Please do what you can this very moment to urge Japan, a member of the IWC, to end Taiji's dolphin/whale hunts, live capture, and slaughter. This has gone on for far too long.
Respectfully,
Allison Cabellon
New York, NY
Monday, November 05, 2012
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Good morning, world. It is 6:45 AM Eastern on Monday, November 5, 2012. Around 11:45 PM last night -- though the cove was blue in Taiji (that is, a good day for dolphins) -- I could not stop thinking about why Yahoo has not stopped selling dolphin and whale meat when Amazon.com permanently did so. I don't want to go into the entire back story on this blog entry, but what you should know is that I was writing a note to someone who could possibly provide me with advice on bringing about change, and when I went to reference something on my Twitter, what I saw -- or rather, what I didn't see -- floored me. So take a look at the two images below:
1. A screen shot of my Twitter conversation with Yahoo-related Twitter accounts and Yahoo Care's response to me on October 25, 2012:
2. And now, here's what it looked like as of midnight and still looks like today:
Yahoo Care removed their response to me! Don't believe my screen shot? Click here to see it on Twitter. You'll see I had good sense to make a record of it with my RT of what Yahoo Care wrote to me, just in case. Now the "just in case" is a reality.
Please note that on Thursday, November 1, I made a follow-up inquiry to Yahoo on my Twitter.
So, sometime between that question on Thursday and Sunday night, the Yahoo Care team removed their tweet to me.
WHY?
I can't get that question out of my head now... WHY?
Allison
P.S. If you have not already, sign the petition on Change.org. More than any other petition right now, I want this victory. I won't give up.
1. A screen shot of my Twitter conversation with Yahoo-related Twitter accounts and Yahoo Care's response to me on October 25, 2012:
2. And now, here's what it looked like as of midnight and still looks like today:
Yahoo Care removed their response to me! Don't believe my screen shot? Click here to see it on Twitter. You'll see I had good sense to make a record of it with my RT of what Yahoo Care wrote to me, just in case. Now the "just in case" is a reality.
Please note that on Thursday, November 1, I made a follow-up inquiry to Yahoo on my Twitter.
.@yahoocare @yahoo Any update from bit.ly/TELfC7 team re: chn.ge/S4e0Hn petition? 129,273 signed. #tweet4taiji @seashepherd
— Allison Cabellon (@avgc) November 1, 2012
So, sometime between that question on Thursday and Sunday night, the Yahoo Care team removed their tweet to me.
WHY?
I can't get that question out of my head now... WHY?
Allison
P.S. If you have not already, sign the petition on Change.org. More than any other petition right now, I want this victory. I won't give up.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Three Minutes of Your Time
TWO MINUTES: Please watch this video. "My friend is in serious trouble, in fact he is fighting for his life right now."
ONE MINUTE: Please click here and sign the petition to help save Japan's dolphins. We need to reach 500,000 signatures by the end of today, October 31, 2012, and we have about 4,500 to go at the time of this posting.
That's it. Three minutes and done.
THANK YOU!
Allison
New York, NY
UPDATE: Around 6 PM Eastern today (October 31, 2012), Take Part extended the deadline to reach 500,000 signatures to November 15, 2012. So we still have time, but please take 3 minutes if you haven't already to click, watch, and sign.
ONE MINUTE: Please click here and sign the petition to help save Japan's dolphins. We need to reach 500,000 signatures by the end of today, October 31, 2012, and we have about 4,500 to go at the time of this posting.
That's it. Three minutes and done.
THANK YOU!
Allison
New York, NY
UPDATE: Around 6 PM Eastern today (October 31, 2012), Take Part extended the deadline to reach 500,000 signatures to November 15, 2012. So we still have time, but please take 3 minutes if you haven't already to click, watch, and sign.