Sunday, July 29, 2012

If you like dolphins, don't swim with them or watch them in a show.

I'm cleaning my room and popped in a documentary I got on Netflix called The Cove. I knew it was about dolphins in Japan and that's about it. It's actually about a cove in Japan where they herd and trap thousands of dolphins a year. They sell each dolphin for $150,000 and they are transported all over the world to "swim with dolphin" tourist attractions and are taught tricks to perform in shows. The dolphins that are not sold are slaughtered. 23,000 a year end up being sold as meat labeled as another mammal. This documentary has me in tears trying to fold laundry. I don't recommend it unless you want to be disturbed, but the message needs to be passed along. Oh, and everything they are doing is totally legal. The American's investigating are being arrested. Nice, right?