Red Water

“The Cove.” The name of it sounds like a horror movie. A movie where someone is trapped and has no escape from the killer that chases them. And it couldn’t be more accurate.

This film has to be one of the most moving and disturbing documentaries I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it, I'd advise that you go look it up. Watch YouTube clips, rent it from a video store- what ever!

The documentary features the rising level of mercury poisoning. There, the mercury poisoned dolphin meat is often sold at lower prices than other meat. this is probably due to the higher mercury levels that the meat contains. Also, for people to buy the meat, it is sometimes "mislabeled" as whale meat.

It escalates. The school systems in Japan were going to introduce dolphin into the lunch menu. There is no way to avoid the children from consuming this toxic food. Japanese children enrolled in schools are required to eat EVERY crumb of their lunches which are given to them by the school. There are no home made sandwiches packed at home.

            The main point about the documentary is not the mercury poisoning, but the way they are able to get hold of the meat. Dolphins would be corralled and trapped into a shallow cove. Mothers and babies are separated. There is even a moment in the documentary where the film makers were able to record the sounds of the dolphins as they called to their family members. The sound alone breaks your heart.

This is actually water... there is just too much blood for you to see the bottom...

 Then men in boats would travel across the cove, stabbing and attacking the poor dolphins. They have no way of escape. The cove is crammed, dolphin stacked upon dolphin. The water grows bloody as wounded and dead dolphins bleed out. There is a man in the movie that is in charge of the operation. He claims that when they kill the dolphins, it is in the most humane way possible. Clearly it is not the case.

I highly recommend this movie. It is horrifying and depressing. But the more people aware, the more likely it can be stopped.
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