Netflix instant movies are incredible. Since K bought a Blu-Ray DVD player and wired it to the internet, I can log onto my Netflix account and access my instant queue. It's basically like ordering movies on demand, but for unlimited movies - $10 per month.
The first movie I watched was the 2009 documentary The Cove. The movie sheds light on an annual dolphin slaughter which takes place every year in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. The documentary's sad, eerie tone carried throughout the duration. It is decidedly one-sided. In America, we raise and kill cattle for food. It is our equivalent, you might say. But it is not quite the same - dolphin meat is highly poisonous.
This is a must-see for people around the world. However, I think that the most dedicated of dolphin lovers would find this very difficult to watch. But it definitely educates tourists who attend dolphin shows or pay to swim with dolphins.
Activist Ric O'Barry says "The dolphin smile is nature's greatest deception," Ric says. "It creates the illusion that they're always happy."
Here is a list of facts regarding cetacean captivity, hunting and use for food:
- Since 2000, Japanese researchers, such as Tetsuya Endo, a professor at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, have found high concentrations of mercury, which can cause mercury poisoning, in the whale and dolphin meat sold around Japan. In their studies, Taiji residents who eat whale/dolphin meat had high levels of mercury in their hair. (Wikipedia)
- Captures of dolphins are traumatic and stressful and can result in injury and death of dolphins. The number of dolphins that die during capture operations or shortly thereafter are never revealed in dolphinariums or swim-with-dolphins programs. (Savejapandolphins.org)
- Training of dolphins is often... misrepresented by the captive dolphin industry to make it look as if dolphins perform because they like it.. they are performing because they have been deprived of food. (Savejapandolphins.org)
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