The Cove – the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins yearly
19 April 2010
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I’m sure many have read the news about this move winning the Oscar award and such. How many have really watched it? If u have not, I’ll highly recommend watching it.
thecovemovie.com
Dolphins and whales definitely do not like captivity. The recent Seaworld case is yet another reminder.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/24/killer-whale-florida
Capturing them for captivity for $150 000 is one thing. Why did they have to kill the rest that are trapped by them? For their meat? Dolphins meat are proven to be mecury toxic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)
Since 2000, Japanese researchers such as Tetsuya Endo, a professor at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, have found high concentrations of mercury, which can cause mercury poisoning, in the whale and dolphin meat sold around Japan. In their studies Taiji residents who eat whale/dolphin meat had high levels of mercury in their hair.[37] Whale meat contaminated with mercury is commonly eaten in the town, and residents have been found to have 10 times the level of mercury in their hair when compared to average Japanese citizens. [38] Although the film argued that the Japanese government and media were trying to conceal the facts, in actuality the Japanese Ministry of Health has issued warnings on the consumption of some species of fish, whale and dolphin since 2003.
The reason could well be what was discuss later in the movie about Japanese pride and such against Westerner telling them what to do and not. Pls dun make dolphin suffer for human pride.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_512905.html
Its mind bobbling why the japanese ppl in Taiji are doing to these intelligent animals. More than 20 thousand are killed yearly!
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