Draw your own conclusions.
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Forget awards. Save lives.
First-time filmmaker Louie Psihoyos teamed with activist Ric O’Barry to make THE COVE, a front-runner for this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary. And while I am certain they’d love to cradle Oscar®, their mission was to save dolphins from their watery grave. For now, they can chalk up a partial victory. According to a National Geographic report, the Japanese town of Taiji — featured in THE COVE — has suspended its brutal, seasonal slaughter of the marine mammals… for one week. Of course, this is a bit like Ron Jeremy declaring celibacy for a week, yet is still proves the power of movies and, more importantly, the influence of impassioned movie-goers. The attention raised by the documentary and the ire inspired amongst audiences has proved too great for officials to ignore. But for those who care about the cause, please don’t feather your beds with laurels. (They’re itchy.) Let this serve as provocation to become even more vocal, more involved. You may never be nominated for an award yourself, but you’ll always have the honor of successfully(?) combating a Cetacean holocaust.
September 13th, 2009 at 3:45 am
This movie gives Sushi a bad taste, and Japanese culture a kick in the groin.
I could dribble on for paragraphs but I will keep it simple and pose a question, not designed to justify the actions portrayed in The Cove but to get you a thinking.
What would change if we found out tomorrow the bovine species was a higher thinking mammal? What slaughter house in Montana would close? Which steak house would cease to exist?
Yea I know that is three separate questions
September 13th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
It’s a fine question, TC. To me, the slaughter of the dolphins is not immoral because the creatures are cuter or higher-functioning or helpless under the circumstances. My issue is that the decision to kill the dolphins is illogical. The ones corralled and killed in THE COVE are sold as “whale meat.” But no matter what name it’s sold under, the seafood is dangerously high in toxins that can and does sicken the kids who are, essentially, force-fed this meat. So, it evolves from a (complex) moral issue to a simple health crisis.