Monday, March 8, 2010

Don't Look Away

Last night, the Academy Award for Best Documentary went to The Cove, a film about the Japanese practice of luring dolphins into a particular cove and slaughtering all but the females with no scars, which they then enslave for humans' entertainment. During the slaughter, the dolphins suffer unimaginably -- they gasp for breath, struggle against their savage attackers, and the cove's water runs crimson. It may be one of the worst things you've ever seen. But please don't look away. You must look - and not wince and turn your head - if only out of respect for the thousands of dolphins that these horrible, bloodthirsty people have killed. In honor of their lives, so selfishly and cruelly taken, give them the moments of your life that it takes to watch the story and learn what you can do to write its ending.

http://www.thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm

Another thing to think about. Not that it matters, because EVERY living thing deserves respect and to live without pain and fear, but scientists have recently stated that dolphins should be designated "non-human persons" - they're that bright and that complex, emotionally, psychologically, socially, etc... Yet the Japanese slaughter them like they're nothing - nothing but toys for entertainment and flesh to be consumed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece

Please contact the Obama administration and demand that they enter into NO agreements of any kind with the Japanese (see link below for news from Greenpeace that the White House is considering a deal that would weaken the moratorium on commercial whaling, something else the Japanese continue to do). The Japanese must be pressured and shamed for their continued slaughter of dolphins - and whales. It's genocide.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/activists-call-on-president