Acts that have canceled SeaWorld shows include the Beach Boys, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Trace Adkins, Trisha Yearwood, Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick, Heart, Barenaked Ladies, Martina McBride and 38 Special. Only Justin Moore and Scotty McCreery remain from the original list of acts on the event calendar. Their representatives have not responded to CNNs repeated requests for comment. The following stars are scheduled to appear in Japan: Rolling Stones - Feb 26 - Mar 6 Jeff Beck - Apr 7th - 16th Toto- Apr 24th - 28th AVRIL LAVIGNE - Feb 3rd - 8th Bon Jovi PAUL McCARTNEY Out There Japan Tour Eric Clapton - Feb8th - 28th Lumineers - Feb 6th - 8th - ask them to speak out against Taiji or CANCEL THEIR SHOWS IN PROTEST! Charlie Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Kirstie Alley and Juliette Lewis are among the stars who have called for an end to the annual slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan after the hunt kicked off again this week. Activists have long campaigned against the yearly cull of bottlenose dolphins, which are herded into Taiji Cove and speared by fishermen, and the barbaric practice was highlighted in Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Cove. As the hunt got underway again on Monday, a number of stars took to Twitter to express their outrage. Cheers star Alley pleaded with Japanese citizens to take a stand against the practice, writing, The Japanese people need to stop the slaughter in Taiji... We can not bully them into stepping up. We can just bring it into their view. Hollywood actress Sarandon called the cull heartbreaking and infuriating and Lewis urged fans to tweet their opposition, adding, Stop this insanity... Tweet 4 dolphins. Other stars to have spoken out against this years cull include Sheen, who threw his support behind the the Sea Shepherd Conservation Societys campaign against the dolphin slaughter, as well as rocker Matt Sorum, Yoko Ono, William Shatner and illusionist David Blaine. Read more: 3news.co.nz/Hollywood-stars-tweet-against-dolphin-cull/tabid/1160/articleID/329268/Default.aspx#ixzz2rF2Tr9eT The widow of John Lennon on Monday joined a rare U.S. request to stop the annual dolphin cull in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, days after the U.S. ambassador to Japan waded into the row. Yoko Ono published an open letter to the people of Taiji, the small town made famous by the Oscar-winning film “The Cove,” which documents the annual bloodbath, urging them to halt the cull for the “future of Japan.” Ono said the hunt, in which scores of dolphins are corralled into a cove to select the prettiest for sale to aquariums and butcher the rest for meat, was damaging the reputation of Japan. It “will give an excuse for big countries and their children in China, India and Russia to speak ill of Japan,” she wrote. “I am sure that it is not easy, but please consider the safety of the future of Japan, surrounded by many powerful countries which are always looking for the chance to weaken the power of our country. “At this very politically sensitive time, (the hunt) will make the children of the world hate the Japanese. “For many, many years and decades we have worked hard to receive true understanding of the Japanese from the world,” she said. “But what we enjoy now, can be destroyed literally in one day. I beg of you to consider our precarious situation after the nuclear disaster (which could very well affect the rest of the world, as well).”
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