GTV6FLETCH
05-04-2012, 9:15pm
Hey every and any one,
Um , I have just finished watching a Documentary from last week that my wifey recorded.
It is called "the COVE", i believe it aired last sunday on channel 2.
I am sick in the gut's right now ,lost for words and close to the angriest i think i have ever been.
so much so i had to come and jump on a public internet forum and talk about it .
It kind of makes me really appreciate nature a lot more than i ever did before,not human nature though.
If you did not see it and am wondering what i am blabbering on about well i'll try to briefly describe it.
There is this little fishing village in Japan called Taji,
every year they go out and round up dolphins and brutally slaughter them.
here is a bit of the web site.
Each year from September to May over 20,000 dolphins are slaughtered in Japan. Fishermen round them up by the hundreds using sound barriers to disorient and herd the frantic pods out of their normal migrations into hidden lagoons like the one featured in The Cove (http://www.thecovemovie.com/). Bottlenose dolphins, especially ones that look like Flipper, are pre-selected by trainers and sold off for upwards of $200,000 to marine mammal parks around the world, where they will remain in captivity performing as circus acts. After the trainers and spectators have left, the rest of the dolphins are inhumanely killed in what can only be described as a massacre.
The butchered dolphins are later used for food, but the Japanese government has intentionally sheltered people from the dangers of eating them. Consumers of dolphin meat run the risk of mercury poisoning due to high levels of the toxin within the animals. Adding to the danger, much of the pricier whale meat they purchase is actually mislabeled toxic dolphin meat. While the Japanese government defends dolphin hunting as part of their cultural heritage, this tradition has serious health effects on its own people.
The more lucrative captive dolphin industry is the driving economic force behind the dolphin slaughter in Taiji. In the U.S. alone, dolphinariums represent an $8.4 billion industry, while a dead dolphin fetches a mere $600. International law provides no protections against the killing of dolphins, and other slaughters occur in places outside of Japan. The International Whaling Commission (http://iwcoffice.org/index.htm) (IWC) affords no protections for 71 (out of 80, known) cetacean species, including all dolphins and porpoises, which is why Japan and other countries can legally kill them by the tens of thousands.
If u did watch it please comment here, i need to discuss it with people.
while watching it on tele my 5 year old daughter came into the room and i tried to pause it but she looks at the screen and asks me,"daddy,why is that beach all red and what were the men doing with the sticks".
I couldnt tell her,
my wife recorded it and after 5 mins refused to watch it.
I gotta go and have a smoke, be back.
Um , I have just finished watching a Documentary from last week that my wifey recorded.
It is called "the COVE", i believe it aired last sunday on channel 2.
I am sick in the gut's right now ,lost for words and close to the angriest i think i have ever been.
so much so i had to come and jump on a public internet forum and talk about it .
It kind of makes me really appreciate nature a lot more than i ever did before,not human nature though.
If you did not see it and am wondering what i am blabbering on about well i'll try to briefly describe it.
There is this little fishing village in Japan called Taji,
every year they go out and round up dolphins and brutally slaughter them.
here is a bit of the web site.
Each year from September to May over 20,000 dolphins are slaughtered in Japan. Fishermen round them up by the hundreds using sound barriers to disorient and herd the frantic pods out of their normal migrations into hidden lagoons like the one featured in The Cove (http://www.thecovemovie.com/). Bottlenose dolphins, especially ones that look like Flipper, are pre-selected by trainers and sold off for upwards of $200,000 to marine mammal parks around the world, where they will remain in captivity performing as circus acts. After the trainers and spectators have left, the rest of the dolphins are inhumanely killed in what can only be described as a massacre.
The butchered dolphins are later used for food, but the Japanese government has intentionally sheltered people from the dangers of eating them. Consumers of dolphin meat run the risk of mercury poisoning due to high levels of the toxin within the animals. Adding to the danger, much of the pricier whale meat they purchase is actually mislabeled toxic dolphin meat. While the Japanese government defends dolphin hunting as part of their cultural heritage, this tradition has serious health effects on its own people.
The more lucrative captive dolphin industry is the driving economic force behind the dolphin slaughter in Taiji. In the U.S. alone, dolphinariums represent an $8.4 billion industry, while a dead dolphin fetches a mere $600. International law provides no protections against the killing of dolphins, and other slaughters occur in places outside of Japan. The International Whaling Commission (http://iwcoffice.org/index.htm) (IWC) affords no protections for 71 (out of 80, known) cetacean species, including all dolphins and porpoises, which is why Japan and other countries can legally kill them by the tens of thousands.
If u did watch it please comment here, i need to discuss it with people.
while watching it on tele my 5 year old daughter came into the room and i tried to pause it but she looks at the screen and asks me,"daddy,why is that beach all red and what were the men doing with the sticks".
I couldnt tell her,
my wife recorded it and after 5 mins refused to watch it.
I gotta go and have a smoke, be back.