Hayden Panettiere, My Hero November 2, 2007
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You may remember a few months back I told y'all about Hayden Panettiere's passionate crusade to save the whales. Well, the Heroes star is taking on the Japanese fishermen once again, only this time it's to save dolphins, and it's in person. Man, I love her.
Hayden and five other surfers tried to disrupt the annual Japanese dolphin slaughter, in which more than 22,000 of the gentle animals are killed yearly. The brave six paddled out on their boards to try to reach a pod of dolphins before they were forced into a cove to be killed but were blocked by the fishermen who even tried to whack them with a boathook.
After heading back to the beach, the surfers gave a brief interview before quickly heading to the Osaka airport. "It was really frightening," Hayden told reporters. "Some of us were hit by the boathook. But in the end all we really worried about was the dolphins."
"It was so incredibly sad. We were so close to them and they were sky hopping, jumping out of the water to see us." It gets worse. At this point she tried to hold back the tears and added, "One little baby dolphin stuck his head out and kinda looked at me and the thought that it's no longer with us is really hard to take." How could you kill a dolphin???!!! Let alone a baby dolphin...they are heartless monsters if you ask me.
Most of the time you're lucky if you can find someone who'll take five seconds to sign a petition, but Hayden flew across the world, paddled out into the sea, and took on a mob of angry fishermen...she's awesome. This hero is the real deal. Check her out in action.
xox
Patricia
Comments
I'm surprised she would do this since she is a model for Neutragena products which test on animals.
Posted by: Kelly at November 2, 2007 4:50 PMI really didn't like Hayden before I heard about this story. To me, she was another fluff TV actres trying to become a recording artist. But now I feel differently. That's an incredible thing she did and awfully unselfish. Applause, applause.
Posted by: Patty at November 2, 2007 8:28 PMI LOVE HAYDEN.
She is so awesome.
Those people are monsters I can't believe they tried to hit them with a boat hook!
Omg. Props to Hayden and the other 5 surfers.
i love hayden. i hope next time can be stopped
Posted by: lizz at November 3, 2007 11:11 PMman, i wish celebrities would use their power to open people's eyes to american slaughterhouse conditions. it's easy to get upset over something as unfamiliar as eating dogs or dolphins because americans view them as "cute". still, she's awesome for doing what she did...how many celebrities would go to that extent?
Posted by: Lou at November 4, 2007 11:29 AMI think Hayden did the right thing in trying to stop the slaughter of innocent dolphins, but I have also seen pictures of her carrying around leather handbags and eating peperoni pizza. I realize we all have to start somewhere and I hope Hayden finds the courage to go completely vegan. I think what she did in Japan was extremely brave so it should be no problem for her to go veg.
Posted by: Jo at November 4, 2007 6:22 PMHayden rocks! I love that she is helping the cause with her celebrity status and her compassion.
Posted by: Mark at November 5, 2007 3:36 PMI'm glad that younger celebrities like Hayden are using their visibility to give issues like this attention. If only other celebrities her age could follow in that vein.
Posted by: Leo at November 6, 2007 12:15 AMI wish all vegetarians were as rich as hayden. I think the world would be a better place.
Posted by: at November 8, 2007 7:23 PMSHE IS AMAZING. I'm so proud to see such a young girl helping out in such a big way. I hope to be like her one day.
Posted by: Amanda at November 12, 2007 5:25 PMI'm a vegan and animal lover, but I don't support her actions in Japan. It's not her place. It's not her culture. She's not a citizen there. There are plenty of animals being mistreated here in U.S. slaughterhouses, circuses, and zoos that she could try to help.
If she is concerned about animal suffering, she should go vegan, or at least vegetarian with an effort to minimize dairy and egg products.
Posted by: Melissa at November 15, 2007 1:57 PMI dont believe that you have to be a vegeterian to care about animals. She wanted to help those dolphins from being killed. who cares if shes not a vegeterian she did the right thing helping those innocent dolphins. they couldn't defend themselves so she did.
Posted by: Chelsea at January 6, 2008 3:05 PMActually, she is a vegetarian, so..yeh!
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Hayden's Great...The Video Is So Sad.
Posted by: MIchelle at November 2, 2007 4:29 PMThose Fishermen Deserve Every Bad Thing They Get.