MATT SORUM Joins Dolphin Hunt Protest In Japan
September 2, 2013, 11 years ago
According to Belfasttelegraph.co.uk, drummer Matt Sorum (ex-GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, THE CULT) is visiting a remote Japanese fishing village to protest against its annual dolphin hunt.
Sorum is the latest celebrity to join the increasingly global campaign to stop the dolphin kill in Taiji, a quaint fishing village in central Japan made famous by the Academy Award-winning 2009 film about the hunt called The Cove.
The movie depicts how dolphins are herded into a cove and speared by fishermen for their meat. The fishermen say the hunt is part of their village's tradition and call Western critics who eat other kinds of meat hypocritical. The film features Ric O'Barry, who trained dolphins for the 1960s TV series Flipper and has devoted the latter part of his life to protecting dolphins and keeping them in nature.
Sorum arrived in Taiji on Sunday, the day the annual dolphin hunt begins, with O'Barry and dozens of Japanese and Western conservationists.
"Like a bad nightmare, I'm watching it almost like a twilight zone, surreal, looking into my eyes in complete disbelief - what's going on in front of me," Sorum said, speaking by phone from Taiji after witnessing the hunt.
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