OlderHayden Panettiere: Japan is a Joke!
SAVE THE CHEERLEADER WHALES, SAVE THE WORLD!
Actress and environmentalist Hayden Panettiere recently received a letter from the Japanese Government Fisheries Agency. Below is their letter and Hayden’s response is below that:
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While respecting Ms. Panettierre’s personal feelings towards dolphins and her commitment to travel to Taiji to make her protest, I hope that your viewers will be reassured by the fact that Japan is carefully managing marine living resources for the future. The government’s fisheries policies are based on scientific information and take into account the opinions of the public.
Sincerely,
Takumi Fukuda
Fisheries Attache, Embassy of Japan
Washington, DC
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Dear Mr. Fukuda,
Rest assured our viewers and the public at large is appalled by Japanese whaling and fisheries practices. Even within your own country, recent polls show that over 77% of the Japanese public is against whaling while only 11% support it.
To say that Japan is carefully managing marine living resources for the future is a joke. Recent scientific studies have shown that over 90% of the world’s large fish have been depleted by over-fishing and Japan’s own factory-fishing fleets are largely responsible for this, decimating one species after another. Just recently, Japan was found to be in violation of its quota on endangered blue fin tuna. I cannot find one example where Japan has carefully managed any marine species.
In regards to dolphins and whales, Japan’s blatant disregard for these species is unfathomable. Japan is cruelly and needlessly butchering over 20,000 dolphins and other small cetaceans every year. There is no humane way to kill a dolphin or whale and scientific research shows that dolphin and whale meat is unhealthy for human consumption. Your own Government studies show dolphin and whale meat can contain up to 10-16 times the healthful level of mercury and that elevated levels of mercury have been proven to cause birth defects, neural damage, and death. As a result, several Japanese supermarket chains have pulled dolphin and whale meat from their shelves due to the health risks. Despite this however, your fisheries agency continues to advocate for the needless killing of dolphins and whales.
In addition, your whaling fleet is now planning to kill over 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary including endangered fin and humpback whales. There is nothing scientific about this slaughter. All the data being collected can be and is being collected through non-lethal means by bona-fide scientists, not bogus scientists like yours.
Recently, a representative for Japan’s fisheries agency said:
“Whales are just as important, and no more special, than any other fish,” says Japan Fisheries Agency spokesperson Hideki Moronuki, maintaining Japan’s long-held position that marine mammals should get no special treatment for being warm-blooded.
Your scientists can’t even tell the difference between a marine mammal and a fish. Do you realize how ignorant Japan looks to the rest of the world? Please be advised that we are telling all consumers to not purchase any Japanese made products until Japan stops killing dolphins and whales and we will be vigilant in this regard. We are determined to end Japan’s brutally cruel and needless slaughter of dolphins and whales and I will do everything within my power to ensure this.
Sincerely,
Hayden Panettiere
Spokesperson
Save the Whales Again! Campaign
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LOL, whoops I meant helen.
haha
hypocrite i hope so. i don’t even watch heroes but i’m not going to start now.
woah she’s pretty cool.
I used to hate Hayden- really!- but after this, I sort of respect her, or at least I respect what she’s doing. And although I’m sure that she didn’t write this, just because she’s a celebrity, I do know 18-year-olds and even 14-year-olds, like my daughter, who can and do write using sophisticated language. Some teenagers are actually capable of cogitating beyond “OMG! U R so, like, totally fab.”. (Like I say, some teenagers. Not all.)
Hey, Hayden! It’s not only Japan. European too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2AOLvmDCus
water melon head is soooooooooo incredibly fake. im young and i too think she did this for publicity. all she does is shop, pose seductively(bad example 4 young women) flash her breasts& butt. she probably eats sushi. she use to smoke. and i could go on and on. she is no hero, yet she puts on this farse bout saving dolphins. im all for dolphins and im a vegan. i aint buying what shes selling, i done believe her. shes way to into trying to be the’it’ girl.
She wrote that most of the Japanese citizens are against killing of whales in their own country. And if they can’t stop whatever whale killing that their own country is doing, who the hell does she think she is? Unless you are a vegan and helping the world to control pollution to the environment, we are all helping to kill something everyday. Are all her makeup products she uses to put on her face not animal tested? All the damn bottled water that she’s drinking probably is killing more species than she knows.
In America where plenty children are starving and being abused, I’m sorry, whale is not on the top of my list. Why doesn’t she just put on a pretty outfit and her nice leather boots and go to serve lunch to the poor one day. Granted saving whales is a good cause but she didn’t have to go insult the entire country and their people who probably have been working hard to save the whales too.
Soooo gurl, pllluuuueeezzzzzeeee.
I’m sure she means well, BUT she’s totally being USED like a puppet for this organization she’s representing. It’s painfully obvious THEY wrote the letter, and took the tone they did that was confrontational and smug. And then they prop this hayden chick up like “she’s” responding. Give me a break. This organization may mean well too, but they are doing one of those PETA-style campaigns that just piss people off and distract from their message in the first place.
I’m proud of what she’s doing…..Good Job Hayden
Of course she has no problem cashing a check from Nutrogina, whom she does ads for… They animal test, but NAH, don’t worry, that is TOTALLY different, right?
I LOVE feel-good-ism hypocrites.
@jake: your response is so typical. “If you don’t like it here in America, move to _________!!!” I actually watch Heroes and I’m her fan so I’m no hater.
Hayden P may want to do good, but the way she’s approaching this (especially the unprofessional tone in the letter) is not the way to do it.
I agree she should probably give up her Porsche too HAHAH. A lot of things she’s saying/doing is hypocritical.
Yay Hayden!! She’s committed to her cause.
[Your scientists can’t even tell the difference between a marine mammal and a fish. Do you realize how ignorant Japan looks to the rest of the world?]
Dear Hayden,
I’m gone. Peace!
signed, your brain.
That’s my girl! I absolutely love her! She has a soul and she actually does good with her life…you go! Lindsay lohan you are not! And it really helps that she actually has talent..but please don’t release an album…don’t become another lohan
WAY TO GO HAYDEN!!
i don’t agree with the practice of the dolphin killing in japan, however you can’t be ingnorant. Maybe some people will realize that there are SOME cultures in the world that do not share the same beliefs as America. This practice has probably been part of the culture for hundreds of years. Many people could argue that the slaughtering of chickens and cows in this country is repulsive. The way they kill these animals in America are the least bit humanitary; yet, just becausephins are cute and not nomally eaten here in the US, the japanese fish industry is looked down upon.
I guess I should stress that I’m not in support of this practice.
But if you’re going to go out and flaunt that you are saving the world by helping these dolphins in Japan, you shouldn’t look past the many other animals here in this country that are brutally slaughtered everyday.
Hayden is and animal activist now haaaaaaa LMAO.
This young woman is to much, she is everything good, if one would believe her hype, and I don’t. Hayden stop the plugging yourself, and leave the dam dolphins off your faux hyped agenda. You are so over exposed. I watch Hereo’s once, it is the worse cast of actors and actresses one can imagiine.
Just asking..Why does she look so old?
Hmmm…I wonder if she ever thought of turning the attention towards her own country instead of pointing fingers at Japan! Dolphin hunts have been around for hundreds of years in Japan and even in America they were used for subsistence before the arrival of the Europeans - its called tradition and culture. We all can’t be lovely Americans - one word “Kyoto”.
I just have to say, as someone who spent 2 years living in the same prefecture as Taiji - the reason that this town continues the whale hunt is primarily because it is the absolute only thing they have going for them economically. They’re in the middle of nowhere, it’s been the whole town’s livelihood/tourism spin for ages, and no companies or industry are lining up to knock their doors down and find other sources of work for the people in the local fishing industry.
At any rate, the saddest part is that no one even WANTS to eat the whales - while a 75-year-old man once told me that “the tail is the best part, but it’s so small and expensive I’ve only had it once”, do you know who ends up eating all the unsold whale meat? Schoolkids. The prefecture agreed to introduce all unsold whale meat into the school lunch program - while a few wacky entrepreneurs are trying to invent “whale burgers” and other gimmicks to make it palatable, in general you can hardly even find whale for sale in local groceries - almost everyone would much rather have wagyuu beef or expensive fish over whale.
That said, the more people try to beat them down, the more stubborn they get in asserting that it’s their culture and their right. Why? Partly because no one likes it when foreign countries spit on you, and partly because it’s all well and good to yell “stop killing the whales!” but no one seems to be yelling “give the people jobs that pay more!” I have a feeling that for 90%+ of the people involved, if they had a better option financially, they’d be just as pro-whale as the rest of the world.
ever since angelina jolie, so many “wannabe” activists in hollywood.
There’s a constructive and counter-productive way to make your case. Hayden has chosen the latter. This sort of piousness is simply aggravating. Finally, anyone who thinks she wrote this letter is mistaken.
Agreed with most comments = Hayden DID NOT write this. The content and wording is at a quasi-professional level and I seriously doubt she does enough writing to come up with this on her own.
What is with this comparison with cows & chickens? Dolphins and whales may become extinct, cows and chickens will NEVER become extinct until pigs fly.
I agree Hayden is totally being used by the organization. She’s young and probably wants to help, but by having her name on that letter that was obviously written by those savethewhale people, she’s the one who is going to get the backlash for that stupid letter. I understand where the concerns are, but that letter was absolutely juvenile when you keep in mind a freaking adult wrote it for her. savethewhalesagain! sounds like a real publicity ho type of group.
TAke a page from peta, save the whales. No one wants to actually read anything Hayden allegedly wrote. She’s 18 and probably only got her GED. She’s been out at every party in the last week, she didn’t have time for her save the whales book report, complete with annotated bibliography and endnotes.
Just tell her to take her clothes off and have her ride a whale “Whalerider” style. Save the Whales sucks if they have to hide behind some 4′11″ teenager and manipulate her to the point of making her sound like a complete idiot with that letter. I feel bad for hayden actually, this makes her look really dumb and she probably just wanted to do something worthwhile.
hayden’s real letter to japan:
Deer Japan:
I really like Benihanna restaurants so I know you Japanese peoples aren’t so bad. But wails are people too! Stop being meen to the wails! K’, gotta go. My hummer just got done being hand dried by 10 illegal aliens who I will now tip with a dollar bill to share among the lot of them!
luv,
Haiden
x0×0x
Yeah Japan really thinks they look ignorant to the rest of the world & we are all going to stop buying Japanese products cuz she said so. I’m sure they are shaking in their boots.
she used the word bogus lol! what a douche
Finally a person that thinks like me! I love u Hayden!
Hayden is ignorant.
Therefore, the American is disliked from the world…
she goes and says 77% are against the problem then she says “all of” japan is ignorant. who is she to tell japan what to do
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