Honestly, there's no hope for us.
Why is it that every day, in one of the most free, most privileged places in the world to live, it's impossible to hide from the most hideous facets of the human race?
I'm always behind the first wave, but I finally watched the Cove.
Even a half hour after watching it, I'm still reeling from the horror of it. I'm still on the verge of tears, dumbstruck by the senselessness of it all.
Never again in my entire life will I go to an aquarium that houses cetaceans. Ever. I will not give money to a facility in order to swim with captive dolphins. It's just not worth the price.
What other horrors go on in this world that we will never hear about in our comfortable living rooms?
The part that killed me the most were the portions depicting the IWC's annual meetings. Where diplomats from all over the world, people with the power to affect real change, sit there turn a blind eye to such brutal mass slaughter and persist in doing nothing, or openly support the slaughter because it means money in their pockets.
I'm all for hunting. I'm all for feasting on the flesh of another animal, for catching it, for killing it.
This is not hunting. This is not killing some cow or chicken, some deer or even seal. Even the smallest schoolchild knows that whales and dolphins are intelligent and self-aware. Their lifespans are comparable to humans, with some species thought to live well over 100 years.
Dolphin meat has huge concentrations of PCBs and mercury. In Canada, we hear about ridiculous levels of toxins in beluga whales in the St. Lawrence all the time. But moreover, the market for dolphin meat for those killed in Taiji isn't even there. The meat has to be sold as other exotic whale meats to even make any money.
And these are the ones that are killed after a small percentage of the dolphins are captured to be shipped worldwide for aquariums. According to the film, as much as 80% of the world's captive dolphins have come from Taiji (I couldn't find any other sites confirming this).
Awareness does make a difference.
Sign the petition.
I'm always behind the first wave, but I finally watched the Cove.
Even a half hour after watching it, I'm still reeling from the horror of it. I'm still on the verge of tears, dumbstruck by the senselessness of it all.
Never again in my entire life will I go to an aquarium that houses cetaceans. Ever. I will not give money to a facility in order to swim with captive dolphins. It's just not worth the price.
What other horrors go on in this world that we will never hear about in our comfortable living rooms?
The part that killed me the most were the portions depicting the IWC's annual meetings. Where diplomats from all over the world, people with the power to affect real change, sit there turn a blind eye to such brutal mass slaughter and persist in doing nothing, or openly support the slaughter because it means money in their pockets.
I'm all for hunting. I'm all for feasting on the flesh of another animal, for catching it, for killing it.
This is not hunting. This is not killing some cow or chicken, some deer or even seal. Even the smallest schoolchild knows that whales and dolphins are intelligent and self-aware. Their lifespans are comparable to humans, with some species thought to live well over 100 years.
Dolphin meat has huge concentrations of PCBs and mercury. In Canada, we hear about ridiculous levels of toxins in beluga whales in the St. Lawrence all the time. But moreover, the market for dolphin meat for those killed in Taiji isn't even there. The meat has to be sold as other exotic whale meats to even make any money.
And these are the ones that are killed after a small percentage of the dolphins are captured to be shipped worldwide for aquariums. According to the film, as much as 80% of the world's captive dolphins have come from Taiji (I couldn't find any other sites confirming this).
Awareness does make a difference.
Sign the petition.