How many of you LOVE seafood? How about steak? Chicken? Burgers? Bacon? Tasty right? Well, I'm thinking about becoming vegetarian, including seafood/fish.
Tonight I watched the documentary "The Cove". Talk about making you think! This documentary focuses on the dolphins being slaughtered in Taiji, Japan. The dolphins are forced to shore then dolphin trainers go in the water and choose the one they want to be at their aquatic arena. The rest of the dolphins are taken to the other side of that cove and stabbed repeatedly with spears and then dragged on to the boats to be butchered and sold in Japanese stores as whale meat. Not only is the murder of these mammals tragic, but the meat that is being sold contains highly toxic levels of mercury.
At one point in the film a Japanese fisherman is quoted in saying, "this is our culture. you americans kill cows to eat, we kill dolphins." That quote really got me thinking. We do kill a crap ton of cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys and sea life but most of us see nothing wrong with that. Its the natural order of the food chain. But when I just stop and think about it, I would hate it if there were some species higher than humans and they would just come and choose the meaty people and kill them, you know? After that quote was said in the movie, they went to the streets of Japan. People were asked if they knew about the dolphin harvest. No one had a clue. That was one difference, we are aware we are killing animals... Taiji and other Japanese citizens are unaware of their killings.
Now, I know it is extreme to want to cut out all those things in my diet just because of one documentary... but I really want to. I just don't know if I'd really be able to stick to it. Cutting out seafood would not be hard at all because I don't like seafood. Last summer I cut out everything except chicken and turkey. So I guess I can look at it as me taking last summer just one step further. I'm sure in a future blog you'll find out what I chose.
Until then you can check out this website: http://www.takepart.com/thecove
It explains what is/was happening and what anyone can do to help.
Thanks for reading! :]
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Amberrr
