On February 14, protesters gathered outside the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco to protest the brutal slaughter of dolphins. Approximately 30 people held signs and handed out literature to people in the financial district to raise awareness of the Japanese practice of slaughtering dolphins.

Activists from Sea Shepherd and In Defense of Animals organized World Love for Dolphins Day demonstrations on Valentine's Day at Japanese consulates in major cities across the United States to inform the public about the dolphin round up and slaughter in Taji, which occurs from September to March every year. This annual atrocity captured worldwide attention thanks to the Academy-award winning 2009 documentary The Cove.

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See Also: "The Cove" - a documentary about the story of the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan | Boycott "Kumano" | Taiji deceives skillfully as tradition for eating , and shifts to dolphin-trade business | To stop dolphin and whale captivity in japan. no more captives. Set the captives free | Stop the dolphin slaughter—stay away from marine-mammal parks | Japan's secret slaughter of thousands of dolphins