It's horrible thinking that in two weeks, people in Japan will set out to capture and kill thousands of dolphins and most of the world doesn't know about it, It's even worse to think that these murderers think they're doing the right thing and will keep doing it, amirite?

The documentary "The Cove" is so freaking sad!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know right! It's horrible, I saw it when I just left Cuba, apparently some dolphins from there came from the Cove.. it's disgusting. Especially some of the people's attitudes on the documentry!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My sister is an obsessed dolphin lover and she like sobbed through the documentary. She bought one of those bracelets that donates money to stop the dolphin slaughtering.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they're not my favourite animals, tigers are which is why I aim someday to fighto stop a lot of stupid animal cruelty towards them in Asia someday, anyway I was the same, sobbed through it, sobbed with rage, genuine upset, disgust and I was so proud of the people that risked their lives to show the world what was happening, the creaters of that documentry are amazing. The people that were in it, I've NEVER wished ill health or something against someone untill I watched that documentry and it's STILL happening! Disgusting.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's disgusting and cruel. I'm a huge cheetah lover. and now they are so endangered :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly, I know! It's so sad that this is happening, due to ignorant people, poor people just wanting money and having no other way, hunters, fur traders etc. Why do we do this? ugh.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why does everyone keep pointing at Asia when the USA and Canada themselves kill thousands of seals each year themselves?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

although asia is getting rid of a pretty large percentage of the animals, i have to agree with you!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's true too. People who blame others have difficulty finding faults in themselves

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree with you, this is only one post, I have done stuff to try and stop or raise awareness in other countries, especially my own, The UK. My post is just a post that came to me when I remember that it was happening every September. Animal Cruelty is wrong, full stop.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah. I get unbelievably frustrated at all of the "save the dolphins" activists--not because they're fighting for animal rights, but because they're blatantly ignoring the rights of all other animals. Really, look into the treatment and legislation behind our domestic animals. Compared to them, the wild animals have it easy. At least they get to live their lives with space and freedom to travel for most of it. It's sad, yeah, but it's also sad how we slaughter even more cows and chickens in really inhumane ways after they've lived pretty sucky lives overall.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks for that. I've changed my vote to No Way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

livestock is born to be killed. so they either wouldn't be born, or they live a relatively fine life. not all farms are inhumane. so look at normal farms before you swallow stuff from PETA and those other organizations.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, well that just makes it all better. It's their JOB to be brutally murdered and then fed to humans. You know what that would be like? It would be like waking up every morning, watching your cousin or sister or whoever being taken away and never coming back. You live a shit life and your owner will never set you free. You don't know what's going on until the day you're sent away to be butchered. You realize how horrible it's all been for everybody else and finally see what's been happening this whole time, only to find out at the last second you were just born to die. Yes, incredibly humane.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Would you rather people brutally murder them for fun, and then just throw away the corpses? At least they're dying for a purpose. By the way, not all slaughterhouses are inhumane. Are some? Absolutely. But not all. And they're not smart enough to know that their family is being taken away. In fact, they probably don't notice that anyone is "leaving and never coming back". There's no "realization", either. Cows and chickens don't ponder over the meaning of their lives in their free time, nor do they think "Hey, wait a minute, wasn't that guy just here yesterday? Oh, no, they're disappearing! I must be next! I knew something was up!" They eat and sleep, completely oblivious to what's going on.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, they probably do notice. If they're smart enough to be able to raise their children like any other animal, they're smart enough to know who their family is--at least linearly. They're herd animals. They function as a unit and in the wild, they become more vulnerable as some of them get picked off. There's evolutionary reason for them to have that sort of cognitive awareness. And it's not primarily the fact that they see others dying around them--it's how they're treated on their way there, how they're killed. It's not like they get numbed before they die. Further, hunting is still legal. How is that not just as brutal? It's just as bad because not all of the animal gets used. It's not like they skin the hide and make it into leather. Huge portions get thrown away. It's a wasteful process. And it's not as if they'd be bred for people to go around killing if they weren't for food--this isn't Runescape, people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not just swallowing crap from PETA. PETA's making things worse, and it's not just vegetarians who are upset over this. Don't you think that if we're going to eat an animal, we should give it our utmost respect? I would urge you to look into the treatment of our domestic animals as documented from organizations besides PETA. I think you'll be surprised as to what you find.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everybody who disagrees with you is really thinking: "Well, I don't like what she's saying at all. It doesn't fit with my moral guideline so it must not be true."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually no I agree with her, like I said earlier. I wasn't talking about that in my post though, sure it's an issue a bad one, and there are some free range farms, people taking action. If you believe that that's why people are dissagreeing it's stupid because it's not as if what I'm talking about in my post is a picnic, is it? Animal Cruelty on all forms is wrong, we're both right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why would you change your vote to No Way? Does the fact that livestock is also murdered make this post any less true? Sheesh

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i live on a pig farm. and i wake up at six every morning because i don't want the abandoned kittens to die, so i feed them even though they spit out half of the milk. i know a lot about animals and how they are created. oh, and animals don't have any sense of the future. they only know the change of the seasons.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because this is fucking nature, oldtimer. If you want to really care about the animals, make every goddamn animal a vegetarian somehow. Besides, if we don't kill the dolphins, the jellyfish will. You know they're taking over the oceans, don't you? Literally taking over the oceans. Dolphins are very toxic to jellyfish, you know. And Japan is being stupid by killing the jellyfish, which releases their pores into the ocean, and instead making thousands of more jellyfish. So, either way, the dolphins are dead. By Japan killing them, they're dead by food. By the jellyfish killing them, they're dead by food. And what happens even if none of them kill them? Oh, something will eat them, just not us or the jellyfish. We're nature too. We have to eat as well. I don't give a damn if I'm eating dolphin meat (and ironically, I hardly eat meat). If dolphins were put under the category as "livestock", I'm sure you wouldn't give a damn anymore. I say kill the damn... (cont.)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(cont.)... things. I don't have anything against dolphins. In fact, I love dolphins. But just because I love them doesn't mean I'm going to interfere with nature. Never interfere with nature. And stop saving animals that are about to naturally die. God, the Earth is never going to evolve this way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The thing is with the dolphin meat from there is it's really poisonous, they label it incorrectly which is illegal, people have gotten really ill, from what I've seen and hey, it could be biased, many of the people selling this meat thrived for money, they didn't care how they got it, which is what sickens me about Cove, with your issue about jellyfish killing them, well isn't that just the circle of life? In my opinion there's a difference between killings like that which you can't stop and people killing thousands when they don't need to, you know they "release" the dolphins that are left behind and then chase them only to kill them as for fun right? I don't know if I'm explaining this very well but there's a big difference there, killing them like that is not nature, it's people going against it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I actually am really active in saving a lot of animals, of all kinds. I was just thinking with this issue, the Cove, not a lot of people know about it. It's better to spread the word than not at all, every little helps. It is sad how livestock is treated here, Battery chickens etc, I've boycotted fast food resteraunts and participated in protests and I'm only 16.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Good! :) I'm glad.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What was with that last part? So what if you're 16? I consider all ages equal, so it's like you saying "and I'm only 28." You're a person with a mind so I don't get what you were trying to say with that last part, like you are a helpless teenager or something that everyone is against or expects nothing of. If you've been participating in protests, whatever, do whatever the hell you want. And in some cases, spreading the word makes everything worse for your cause. Also, fast food restaurants are disgusting and have horrible health problems. I hope you've been protesting against that too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay then, that was stupid of me, I apoligize. For some yes, but this, In my opinion can be stopped if more people help to try and stop it, I agree with you, and yes I have protested against KFC thrice, ofcourse it's only one chainstore but I think I'm too young to be allowed into some protests, or am I wrong? If I feel strongly about something I'll try to stop it or share my opinion, fast food chains are horrible in so many ways, horrible to their staff, unhygenig, unhealthy, false advertising but this post isn't REALLY about that, it sort of touches it though and thankyou for making my comments more interesting,

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're welcome, I s'pose. Good to know you stand up for what you believe in, and fuck off anybody else you tries to stop you. That's good, keep it up. Even if I am against what you say.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(Wow, so many spelling errors in my last post, gak!) Thankyou? you're not being sarcastic, no? It's hard to tell via text, that or either I'm jsut being simple. Oh no it's alright, you've taught me new things, that's sometimes good when people dissagree with you, it brings you down and makes you realise, there are two sides to every story. It's just saddening how many different types of animal cruelty there is in the world, also just general abuse towards humans, it's all wrong. We're never gonna stop it completely, that's the truth.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Abuse of every kind is horrifying and revolting. However, I wouldn't consider the tactic of making un-endangered dolphins into food some sort of abuse... I mean, like I said, either way they'll appeal as food to somebody or something. And I wasn't being sarcastic.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah okay, they're meat and people eat different things all over, the thing I have a problem with ti HOW they're killed, for profit, fun (when they chase them out in the end I mean, and food) the food is only an issue with me mainly because people have gone sick due to mercury poisoning, the people in the Cove don't do health regulations and they sell the wrong piecies of meat. :|

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fun? I don't think it'd be fun. A lot of people who go out fishing on boats are in many dangers, and it's a job to be taken incredibly seriously. Profit, however, is what almost anything is for. Are you a vegetarian, animagus? If you aren't, then frankly I find you to be a hypocrite. Also, don't trust biased documentaries. Only trust factual documentaries, the ones that say what goes on, and doesn't portray it as bad without even saying so.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They actually torture the dolphins before they kill them by banging pipes against the boats so the sound waves hurt them and confuse them. It's so cruel.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not saying they don't, and I'm not saying it isn't cruel. I AM saying that our livestock gets tortured in other ways, and often not for the sake of rounding them up, but for the sake of either money, convenience, or just because employees feel like it and employers don't care.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's why people kill the Dolphins/Whales in Japan too.. but you''re totalloy right! It's so wrong that people do that, one of the farms down my road is really cruel to their animals, no space, basically battery hens, dogs tied up in very poor enviornment and all for the sake of money, they have sheep that aren't sheared etc, it's sick. I really don't understand how someone can hurt an animal like that, any kind of animal.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and the worse thing is, we've called the RSPCA etc, and they won't do anything! It's like they only focus on making adverts begging for money than actually helping animals, that is wrong! One person told me once that "they only specialised in domestic animals and not farm animals", either way, it has a heartbeat it's an animal, it can feel pain. That was right out of order, some stuff in the UK really need to change, and actually other countries too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So... how are dolphins any different than fish? and don't say intelligence (pigs are about as smart) or "lol dolphins don't taste gud" the fact is, this shit is regulated. and if you want a complete permanent moratorium on dolphin killing, you have to make sense. you don't "love animals", you love CUTE animals like tigers and dolphins and bunnies. grow the fuck up

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Erm, there's more issues in my post than just that they're killed, Dolphins that have come from the cove have caused a lot of mercury poisoning, the people sell the meat without labeling it correctly, which is very dangerous. Oh really? just cute animals? I work hard to save all kinds of animals when I can, screw it if they're cute or not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dolphins are mammals, not fish.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That wasn't his point. "How are they different than fish?" is not accusing it of being a fish. Read harder.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You are so stupid. Do you know what a mammal is?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Can you read?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the love of animals shouldn't be greater then that for humanity, it should be equal (no life is more important then another) that being said the cove pisses me off, those people don't understand, and hate shouldn't thrown at them because they're narrow minded. Everyone around me has problems because of the same way of thinking, but being bitter twards them or anyone else doesn't help.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

people get upset about animal rights in other countries but not the wars or genocides. that's pretty gross. equality doesn't exist, I'm sorry to say. so you should care about both, but i haven't seen a single post on here about darfur or sudan or places like that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow I've never realised that, you're right. That's pretty messed up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah. but if people cared more about science and educated more people, we could have more marine biologists. science is the only thing that will save those dolphins and cows and people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We discussed that in Geography, people in LEDCs need water and food but what they need more is an education to learn how to keep their country and their energy sustainable, it would decrease a lot of problems the World has, like hunting, deforestation, desertification etc.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Uh, you know Darfur is IN Sudan, right? And it's not that people don't care about the genocide going on there as much as they care about dolphin hunting or something, it's that awareness is low because there are very few news reports on it (unlike many animal rights issues), and the US government doesn't want to do anything/draw attention to it because the Sudanese government give us information about terrorists that hang out there, and when questioned about it they refuse to acknowledge that it's genocide.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no, actually, i didn't know it was in there. But we could still help refugees more and help in other places. I hate to say it, but animal rights need to be balanced with human, or be less.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True. But also, in some ways, animals need more rights than humans because they're helpless. I personally think they need pretty much the same rights as children - basically no say in society, but protected.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they are most certainly not helpless. we should leave wild animals alone. alone as in no helping or harming.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They're helpless against destruction of their habitat, and guns obviously. And yeah, no helping or harming is what I meant by protected. We'd keep people from destroying their habitat or food sources or whatever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

we really should elect the green team in the u.s. hopefully then we could actually enforce our habitats, and stop some stupid things like "hmmm, how long does it take to get through the amazon/ice poles/ etc?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you have a point, like I said earlier also, people do these kind of things along with other issues like deforestation etc, because they're poor and they don't know the effects it has, it's sad it really is but it is happening, this post was just to raise awareness, I didn't claim to favour anybody's lives over each other nor I have I said other things that other posters have accused me of, animal cruelty in all forms should stop.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

horrible, i agree. but i'm voting no because of so many other reason i don't even feel like explaining. sorry

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's alright, I don't mind.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dolphins are cocky bastards

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...this reminds me of family guy, am I right in thinking that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe. All I know is I don't like dolphins

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just like The Cove, you should all watch the movie Earthling... Its about all types of animal slaughter... If you're really into saving animals, you should really see this... Changed my view on life (new vegetarian)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've never heard of it, thankyou. I'll go looking for it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Anyone who eats any kind of meat should just shut up about this issue. No matter what you say, it is not any different.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

amen to that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes but for some forms of meat (that come from chicken and pigs for example) those animals are raised to be killed and eaten. The Japanese are taking what is not theirs and not only just killing them but selling them to aquariums all over the world landing many of these dolphins in captivity (which is also very bad for dolphins). They are brutally murdering thousands of dolphins each hunting season and selling their meat (which contains VERY high levels of mercury poisoning) disguised as more expensive whale meat.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its their culture. Who are you to judge? And when it come to killing wild animals, at least these dolphins spend most of their lives freely unlike the poor farms on animals that are tortured so much that they don't even have the will to live.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

most of their short lives* and it's not culture, it's something recent, to make money! a person on the documentary slit a baby dolphin in front of a camera just to piss people off, is that right? no. Yes, like we said, there are battery farms and things but there are also free range farming! No form of animal cruelty is right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, this obviously proves that we have different sources of information so there is no point in further discussion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't care if "it's their culture," that doesn't make it right. A few centuries ago they hung thieves in England, should they still resort to capital punishment for simple theft? Dumbshit.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well then, I suppose all the Hindu people should bash people who eat cow meat because to them, that is just wrong!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

if you watched the documentary you would realize that it's not their culture because only the people who are slaughtering them know about this. they asked thousands of people and no one knew about this... so no, it's not a culture.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

First of, you can not learn the truth from one or two documentaries. Secondly, most people do know about it and those that didn't before it got all the publicity is because it only happens in one town called Taiji. So maybe you should research a bit more.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Since when is selling dolphins to aqariums and brutally murdering thousands dolphins and disguising their very TOXIC meat and selling it as more expensive whale meat a Japanese tradition?? Especially since a large amount of the Japanese population is unaware of this so-called tradition and the Japanese government has worked VERY hard to keep this secret unknown to the public.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am going to assume that you do not live in Japan or have ever been to Japan because if that was the case, you would know better. People in Japan know that it's dolphin, not whale. They are aware of it. The labels are misleading to foreigners but perfectly clear to the Japanese. Also, the toxicity is not hidden. The Japanese fishing association has all the information about Hg levels on their websites. The website also states the amount of dolphin meat that can be consumed without harm and that it must not be consumed by pregnant women. And once again, I am not supporting the dolphin hunt. Heck, I am against killing all animals and am a vegetarian. But all I am saying is that we should not be singling out Japan because we think killing dolphins is disgusting. We should not be imposing our values on them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What!? No, they aren't. That's why people have been arrested, for labelling incorectly on purpouse to gain money! It doesn't matter if I live there or not, it's fact. Okay, some people may kno,w the government do, but the people? no, The documentary 'Cove' is banned in Asia, because the government doesn't wanna expose the horrors to their country. Yes, dolphin meat can be safe but a lot of what was being sold has high levels of mercury! People did it illegaly, it might be better now than it was, but ti happened, loads of people got sick. If your telling people to research their facts, make sure yours are right too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dolphins can actually be quite vicious. Although I still don't like the idea of killing them. I understand the situation, but I feel like it could be handled differently.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Humans can be vicious too, it's still no excuse to kill them. It's not jsut that they're being killed, Whales are in this too, the dolphin/meat is also being labeled incorrectly and it's caused Mercury poisoning, plus it's illegal. Thanks for sharing your opinion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is not illegal in Japan, which is where it is done. It is regulated by the government and everything.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

parts of what they are doing are illegal that's why some people HAVE been arrested and questioned.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

5 things you can do now to help: http://www.takepart.com/thecove

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why didn't I know about this?:(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sorr love, but it is happening. go to http://www.takepart.com/thecove and you can help to stop it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Support the cause on September 1st! Wear you're doplphin gear.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Animagus, I hope more people aspire to be like you. It's amazing that you're only 16 and already taking an active part in something important. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I can't even begin to say how much you've just turned my day around, I'm 15 actually but 16 tommorow, it's better to say 16. Hehe.. thankyou so much!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Domestic animals such as cows, chickens, and pigs were domesticated so that we could raise, breed, and eat them. This process has been going on for thousands of years because we need something to eat. I don't think it's wrong, but to treat them in a cruel way is wrong. If your going to eat a animal, you might as well treat it with respect and any farm that can't do this is sickening. The poaching of wild animals and cruelty of domestic animals are both important, but I think poaching is more serious, because if a species goes extinct from poaching, there's no bringing them back.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you are my hero. thank you soooo much for bringing this issue to our attention! i watched the documentary immediately after reading this and i will do anything in my power to help the OPS!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thankyou, that's so nice! And I'm glad I inspired someone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago