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were a lot of things that I really enjoyed while watching “The Cove”. The best
part about the film was how determined the cast was to reveal to the world the
dolphin slaughtering taking place. These people had to break the law in order
to catch everything they wanted to on camera. If they were caught breaking the
law in Taiji, Japan, they would immediately be arrested. This shows just how
secretive they wanted to keep the dolphin killings. The most problematic
concept that I see in the film is the mass killings and capturing of the
dolphins. The film notes that there are approximately 23,000 dolphins killed in
Japan every year by the country’s whaling industry. As I noted in my earlier posts, these dolphins contain high concentrations of mercury in them which is harmful to the human body when consumed. That being said, slaughtering that many dolphins is completely
If I chose one person from the film to have lunch with
and chat, it would be Rick O’Barry. I would ask him if he thinks there is hope
that the whaling industry in Japan will stop these killings anytime soon. Rick
has definitely done his part by showing the rest of the world these inhuman
acts of dolphin slaughtering. Now it’s up to the rest of the world to take
action. So, I’d like to know if and when he thinks this problem will be fixed.
It seems that our documentaries were somewhat similar. I watched Blackfish. It showed a lot of evidence and was just trying to get the word out about the lies that SeaWorld was covering up. I hope that our documentaries were able to spread the word about the terrible things going on undercover in this world. Great post, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that Rick did a good thing in showing us what is going on over there. I think that what they are doing to the dolphins is horrible and something should definitely be done about this issue.
ReplyDelete"I would ask him if he thinks there is hope that the whaling industry in Japan will stop these killings anytime soon." (Marzo S.) I do not think that he would be able to say yes. The reason I say this is because Japan has been doing this for so long it will take such a massive thing to get them to stop it completely. Anther huge factor is just because us as the Untied States view this as wrong it doesn't necessarily mean that they do! I do agree that it should be stopped but the fact is will they soon? No i do not believe that they will.
ReplyDelete"I would ask him if he thinks there is hope that the whaling industry in Japan will stop these killings anytime soon." (Marzo S.) I do not think that he would be able to say yes. The reason I say this is because Japan has been doing this for so long it will take such a massive thing to get them to stop it completely. Anther huge factor is just because us as the Untied States view this as wrong it doesn't necessarily mean that they do! I do agree that it should be stopped but the fact is will they soon? No i do not believe that they will.
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