The Cove

[Schlosser85]

This is a documentary about a whaling town in Japan where 23,000 dolphins are slaughtered annually and their meat, which contains so much mercury it's practically poisonous, is "mislabeled" as whale meat and sold in the fish market, where some of it even ends up in Japanese school cafeterias, where Japanese schoolchildren unknowingly eat meat filled with mercury.

Oh, and the few out of the 23,000 deemed "worthy" are captured alive and sold to places like Sea World, where they'll spend the rest of their lives performing tricks in exchange for food while the constant blaring announcers and music cause them excruciating pain because their hearing is vastly more sensitive than a human's.

Yea, makes me want to go to Sea World.

 

[Figs]

Is the Japanese government actually trying to stop these guys?

I'm not one of those insane animal rights activists but I think killing intelligent animals like dolphins is stupid. That and all those illegal whalers out there can eat a dick.

 

[8wid]

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It looks like a marvelous film to me that seems extremely insightful to a problem that no one seems to pay attention to anymore.

 

[Octoberist]

Look pretty darn interesting.