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The Cove

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Sun, 09/05/2010 - 06:00

Thomwade

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So...has anyone else watched this doc? It's now available on Netflix...so I figured I would check it out. It's brutal...it starts out looking like it could be the story of some paranoid environmentalist, the guy who trained the dolphin's that played Flipper...but it was very moving and downright horrific towards the end.

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 14:13

Private J.V. Vasquez

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I heard about this, when I saw the academy award and I read about this there was a lot of controversy around the issue. I would like to see the documentary.

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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 13:00

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I thought it was excellent. It is horrific but it needed to be. It's just insane that the town has stautues of dolphins everywhere and then slaughters them by the thousands. I think these guys had some serious balls to go in and film this stuff. I felt sorry for the women who were with them when the Japanese guys were all in their faces and they were breaking down and crying. Russia was the first country to declare that killing a dolphin was akin to murder and would be treated as such as they are a sentient species. When my ship was out to sea dolphins would swim along with us every day.

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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 13:47

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This was on Tv the other day and I couldn't COULDn'T watch it. It was so heart breaking and it really GOT me inside. knowing that something is intelligent and sentient and capable of love and understanding humans and to be terrorized and killed for non-essential meat - just breaks my heart. It makes me struggle with my food identity and want to become a vegan. I can't understand or make sense of how I am supposed to survive by destroying the lives of other organisms. It isn't fair and it is sick - it makes me feel like a monster.

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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 14:29

Thomwade

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The movie didn't really drive me towards veganism. I have no problem with meat eating in a general sense. But animals like dolphins and whales are slaughtered in such great numbers, it's horrifying. Nature should be guarded and preserved. Dolphins are not providing some essential meat, the dolphins slaughter in the cove are killed merely for not being chosen for captivity. I am not comfortable at all with whales and dolphins being forced to perform.

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 15:31

Hans

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I don't like it either even if the argument is that they are born in captivity so don't know anything better. LIke I said they swam along with my ship everyday up to speeds of 35 knots and greater and they seemed to love it. I had to sit through the dolphin show at the zoo here a few weeks ago because the kids love it but it got me upset because their pool was even smaller than I imagined.

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