The Cove - Great movie, but the wrong strategy

The Cove may have won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2010, but the filmmakers not very likely to succeed in their goal to stop hunting in the Taiji dolphin.

This is not because the Japanese use deep-hunting dolphins. In fact, not generally eaten dolphin in Japan, is a little-known regional dish. Prior to The Cove by advertising on the practice of eating dolphin meat have been known by the Japanese, very few.

The Japanese are just asfascinated by dolphins as any other nationality, "swim with the dolphins is a popular activity for tourists in Japan.

On the other hand, the idea that dolphins are as intelligent as people do not generally accepted in Japan. The Japanese (and Chinese) word for dolphin, Iruka, means "ocean of pork," translated literally. This suggests that the dolphins are traditionally as a food source in East Asia so far, and most Japanese is difficult to understand why it is OK to kill cowsand pigs for their meat, but it's not OK to kill dolphins for the same purpose.

I think it's important to remember that dolphins have been killed and imprisoned in Japan are not endangered, and that hunting in a sustainable way. Another point, you should at least consider that perhaps the idea that dolphins have to be a privileged status and special dispensation may be hunted from a Western cultural identity.

Japanese journalistKatsuichi Honda made the following comments in an essay he wrote in reference to 1980 was written in the Land Trust President Kate Dexter, which was for the release of 200 dolphins in their nets, in the prefecture of Nagasaki was arrested. In discussions with the trailer of Kate, Honda made the following points:

"If this distinction [top intelligence] between dolphins and other animals is valid or not, a more important question is why there is no need to kill theseThe animals of lesser intelligence. Why can we slaughter cows without problems? The activists have provided no justification to explain the fate of the animals less intelligent 'when rationalized that the cows can be managed as farm animals and then we can kill them. I asked if we kill the dolphins and then you can tame. His response was, in fact, that this pathetic and barbaric. Their argument is not logical, but emotional, deeply rooted in their history andCulture.

For those who were born and raised in Western culture, dolphins and whales are animals, often in the ancient Greek or Roman mythology. An animal like in India, the cow is considered sacred and was never intended for slaughter and consumption. Thus, the difference of cultural and historical context of major ... I asked what he thought about whether Indian ranch in the western United States and went to save the cows. "

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