True stories - The cove

[matthew]

Watched this program last night, 23 thousand dolphins are slaughtered each year and the government covers it up.

That is all.

 

[sydney]

Watched this program last night, 23 thousand dolphins are slaughtered each year and the government covers it up.

That is all.

jesus , how much wasababi and soy sauce do they need to wash that lot down.greedy yellow fuckers...!!!

are you sure its not 2 to 3 thousand,23 thousand is f***ing thousands

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The Cove (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There is a horrific video that was circulated a few years ago along with a petition.

glumbert - Dolphin massacre in Japan

Not for the faint hearted.

 

[dannyboy]

ive seen that before, why the f*** did i watch it again...... horrific...... very sad

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

No campaign to save the hundreds of thousands of snakes that are skinned alive in restaurants in the Far East then?

Not quite Flipper, are they?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Very good film this.

Funny story. I skim read a review of this which painted it to be a light hearted mocumentary about the use of Dolphins in the entertainment industry in America and so convinced my now ex-girlfriend to come and watch it on the basis that it would be a bit silly and funny (not that the enslavement of Dolphons are either).

Long story short, it turned out that it was about the horiffic slaughtering of Doplhins in Taiji inclusive with some really horrendous video's, my now ex-girlfriend started crying during the film, and I just felt like the worst person ever. I got seriously trolled by a commentor on IMDB.

Anyway, it's a really good documentary and the lengths people go to disrupt and stop the trade with very little recognition should be commended.

 

[folkestonesgull]

This makes me mad, as does the lover of shark fin soup

 

[sydney]

they might not get recognition over there but they are well covered here , likewise the sea sheperd crew who are continually hounding the jap whaling fleet in the southern ocean............the japanese are more worried about loosing face if they back down on commercial whaling , i for one ,having seen many whaling exhibitions , old whaling stations and also been whale spotting more than a few times ,find it utterly disgusting that they continue with it.

 

[beorhthelm]

whats covered up? im pretty sure its well known, i've seen it on TV years ago.

 

[Superphil]

It's OK to eat Fish (they have no feelings apparently) but it's not OK to eat other sea dwelling creatures?

What difference does it make? Fish are trawled for hours jammed in a net before being lobbed up on deck, and then processed and frozen.

Prawn fishing boats trawl in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico? 90% of the animals they catch (juvenile fish, starfish, celapods etc) are tossed overboard, dead, for the waiting gulls, while only 10% of their catch, the prawns, get boiled alive in the boat before being chucked in the freezer.

Your huge far eastern Tiger Prawns? Lovely ain't they? Bred in massive concrete lakes 2 feet deep, in which the prawns live 1000 of them to a cubic metre, when in the wild they live 2 to a cubic metre.

Why do we get so much more upset because they’re Dolphins?

With the rate the other fishing methods are going, with little or no consideration to marine sustainability, there will be nothing left for the Dolphins to feed on soon anyway.

 

[Hotchilidog]

It's OK to eat Fish (they have no feelings apparently) but it's not OK to eat other sea dwelling creatures?

What difference does it make? Fish are trawled for hours jammed in a net before being lobbed up on deck, and then processed and frozen.

Prawn fishing boats trawl in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico, 90% of the animals they catch (juvenile fish, starfish, celapods etc) are tossed overboard, dead, for the waiting gulls, while only 10% of their catch the prawns, get boiled alive in the boat before being chucked in the freezer.

Your huge far eastern Tiger Prawns? Lovely ain't they? Bred in massive concrete lakes 2 feet deep, in which the prawns live 1000 of them to a cubic metre, when in the wild they live 2 to a cubic metre.

Why do we get so much more upset because they’re Dolphins?

With the rate the other fishing methods are going, with little or no consideration to marine sustainability, there will be nothing left for the Dolphins to feed on soon anyway.

Quite. If people really feel that strongly about what they have seen in The Cove then maybe they should start to apply that rationale to other creatures also.

 

[sam86]

It's OK to eat Fish (they have no feelings apparently) but it's not OK to eat other sea dwelling creatures?

What difference does it make? Fish are trawled for hours jammed in a net before being lobbed up on deck, and then processed and frozen.

Prawn fishing boats trawl in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico? 90% of the animals they catch (juvenile fish, starfish, celapods etc) are tossed overboard, dead, for the waiting gulls, while only 10% of their catch, the prawns, get boiled alive in the boat before being chucked in the freezer.

Your huge far eastern Tiger Prawns? Lovely ain't they? Bred in massive concrete lakes 2 feet deep, in which the prawns live 1000 of them to a cubic metre, when in the wild they live 2 to a cubic metre.

Why do we get so much more upset because they’re Dolphins?

With the rate the other fishing methods are going, with little or no consideration to marine sustainability, there will be nothing left for the Dolphins to feed on soon anyway.

Good post.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

It's OK to eat Fish (they have no feelings apparently) but it's not OK to eat other sea dwelling creatures?

What difference does it make? Fish are trawled for hours jammed in a net before being lobbed up on deck, and then processed and frozen.

Prawn fishing boats trawl in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico? 90% of the animals they catch (juvenile fish, starfish, celapods etc) are tossed overboard, dead, for the waiting gulls, while only 10% of their catch, the prawns, get boiled alive in the boat before being chucked in the freezer.

Your huge far eastern Tiger Prawns? Lovely ain't they? Bred in massive concrete lakes 2 feet deep, in which the prawns live 1000 of them to a cubic metre, when in the wild they live 2 to a cubic metre.

Why do we get so much more upset because they’re Dolphins?

With the rate the other fishing methods are going, with little or no consideration to marine sustainability, there will be nothing left for the Dolphins to feed on soon anyway.

Phil, Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures with many human qualities, certainly slighly up the scale from a Cod I would have thought or a snake.

 

[cardboard]

makes me so angry i just flippered my lid

 

[Superphil]

US, not intelligent enough to fall for the old herding into the cove trick are they?

Animals is animals, if you feel strongly about the marine mammals that can't talk, then as Hotchillidog says....

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

But intelligent enough to understand pain, fear and depression.

 

[Superphil]

And we know that fish dont get hurt, don't suffer fear, or get traumatised?

 

[Silent Bob]

US, not intelligent enough to fall for the old herding into the cove trick are they?

Animals is animals, if you feel strongly about the marine mammals that can't talk, then as Hotchillidog says....

Are you really arguing that dolphins are no more intelligent than prawns?

Not that I would be in favour of that kind of treatment of any animal.

 

[Giraffe]

Is it Denmark or Norway where they carry out some kind of ritual every year and kill hundreds of whales/dolphins in cold blood in a bay, complete bloodbath which teenage boys do as some kind of ritual to becoming a man!!