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This documentary made by the trainer who worked on the original series of Flipper and who now holds himself responsible for the worldwide capture/imprisonment/slavery of dolphins shows the shocking (it truly is) and unacceptable events that go on year in year out in a small coastal town in Japan.
The plot of this film is not a secret.
In Japan, the truth is a secret with people eating dolphin meat toxically contaminated with mercury.
This is powerful and professional film making with a dedicated group of people volunteering to help.
That separates it from Sharkwater which told the perhaps even more terrible story of how we kill 100,000,000 every year.
Here the figure is 23,000.
The best go to Dolphin parks(?) for $150,000US, the rest are slaughtered in a pen with spears, the waters run red with blood and the town holds its dirty secret to its chest.
This planet is dying and we have one generation to put it right.
See this film and if you take your children you will have to think of an answer to the question "Daddy, what are we going to do about it?".
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At least at that one cove and for now.
My favorite talk radio head was discussing Greenpeace and whaling yesterday. He noted that whales and dolphins send very distinct sonar distress signals when they're being hunted and slaughtered (who wouldn't?). If activists could record these sounds and play them in the vicinity of the whaling vessels, it would make the potential victims ske-daddle in a hurry. Even if the whalers made more noise to drown out the early warning system, it would still signal to the sea life to get the heck out of Dodge.
I'd be inclined to design a lifesize, radio controlled exploding whale.....
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
The secret is out.
...what are the odds we'll get to see it stateside?
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I saw it at the Inwood Theater in Dallas, probably about three weeks or so ago. It's long gone now, after a short two-week run.
It will be out on DVD I presume. Catch it then.
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... some of the equipment was supplied by Industrial Light And Magic, it's been shown at Sundance... beyond that... who knows.
I saw it in a regular cinema...
dolphin park for that matter.I will never participate in any "swim w/ the dolphin" events, which are held at various resort locations around the world.
I will have no respect for the IWC (International Whaling Comission), which allows the Japanese to continue to kill whales for "scientific study."
While the Japanese are rightly indicted in this suspenseful documentary, many nations have contributed toward the destruction of the seas. Toxic levels of mercury in dolphins are but one of many barometers of ocean pollution.
Coral reefs are not only dieing from the warming of the oceans (a "natural" event according to some), but also from huge drift nets that literally catch everything by raking along the ocean bottom.
Most ocean fisheries are in serious decline; it is estimated that decline is as much as 90%. Further over fishing will lead to the extinction of major fisheries by 2050 or sooner.
Though I haven't seen Sharkwater, I am aware of this movie. One of the crueliest acts I have ever seen is the act of cutting off a shark's fins and throwing it back in the water . . . without fins, the shark essentially drowns. Please don't eat "sharkfin soap."
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... you (or should I say "I") can only imagine leaving the theatre stunned and silent.
The destruction humanity has wreaked upon the oceans is harder to see than than the land because its all... underwater... but the fishing stocks are dying, the reefs are dying and within 50 years we may well follow.
I have no way of checking this but in The Cove, it is stated that the world's fish stocks will disappear in around 40 years. 70% of the world's population is dependant on fish.
Between that and climate change, it seems the numbers of migrants being forced to move and who will eventually become angry and who may take up arms (anyone for a moslem/climate change/food confluence?) within our children's lifetimes?
If millions start to move then who or what could stop them?
What would you do if your family was starving?
Expect no less from others.
I was doing a repair to a slaughterman's car last week and the squealing of the pigs as they were chased around their pens before being stunned then butchered still lingers.
The general public might be more emotive when it comes to dolphins and whales, but we also need to get our own houses in order.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
This entire trade depends on dolphin trainers paying $150,000.
The rest are sold as "whale" and are poisoning people.
Remember, when mercury poisoning first appeared in the 1950s, the Japanese government denied it for 12 years.
The level of mercury in these dolphins is dozens, hundreds of times above the safe level.
"The rest are sold as "whale" and are poisoning people."
To put it bluntly, although kids who are fed it by their parents are obviously innocent, any adults eating whales deserve to be poisoned.
These would be the whales killed during 'scientific research' I imagine.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
The move to introduce dolphin meat into the compulsory school lunches was opposed by 2 councillors who were if I remember right were threatened both professionally and physically.
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Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
... really.
I buy music from Japan.
I am emailing the trailer for this film to each and every connection I have in Japan.
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