I attended a showing of "The Cove" a movie/documentary about the thousands of Dolphins that are captured each year and either sold off to Aquariums or SeaLife type parks.
They get enormous amounts of money per Dolphin sold, like $150.00 each. What's even more disgusting is the 23,000 Dolphins that aren't sold and are instead herded in to "The Cove" in the village of Taiji, Japan.
Here they are slaughtered and sold for their meat at a few dollars a pound.
Most people, especially in Japan may think they are eating Whale and not realize it's Dolphin.
Because of the ocean's food chain, Dolphin meat has pretty much the highest concentration of mercury.
They were going to start feeding it to the school kids through their lunch program.
This was stopped, but only because two Japanese councilmen were brave enough to expose the plan.
It is playing in Kihei on Maui, Hawaii through Thursday Sept. 11th thanks the Earth Foundation found at www.EF123.org.
The trailer is at http://www.thecove.com or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5qgVp0jng.
Not being a big animal activist (primarily because I a spread too thin right now) and having grown up watching the Flipper TV series and now a movie with my Grand Kids, this movie was a real eye opener.
We are one planet and can't close our eyes to this sort of thing and everyone needs to take a stance to stop this sort of useless slaughter of our fellow life on earth.
Even most Japanese don't know this happening. There is no real reason these days for this to continue, except to enrich a few people's pockets and some impoverished Countries willing to take Japanese money in exchange for voting in favor of continuing this behavior by voting in favor of allowing Dolphins to be caught and slaughtered by the millions.
About one hour into the show is the scene that shows them slaughtering the Dolphins, so if you don't care to see it, take a five minute break. The bay used for this literally turns bright red from the killing.
The world needs to know about this and it's up to us all to pass it on.
Jim Hall
www.EmpowerMaui.com
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