Do we really need to dolphins in captive? Just so that we can go "Awww..." whenever the dolphin do a backflip, keeping us entertained for the 30mins we paid for? The easiest retort may be that "It's easier to educate the public". The public should be taught the dolphins ought to remain where they should be - in the wild.
In the show, many Japaneses are unaware that their fellow countrymen are killing dolphins. These people are unaware that as consumers, they are perpectuating the massacre of one of the mascot they are promoting in the tourist town of Taiji. It's an irony that the little girl was patting the dolphin softie in the souvenir shop, when at the dolphin site, hundred of dolphines are murdered with multiple stabs, dying slow deaths. Are our lives so compartmentalised..that we may be unaware that we are actually part of an ugly chain of events? Sea Worlds and marine parks as fronts for an ugly dolphin trade, rapid deforestation to support commercial demand for wood, over-fishing to provide that fresh salmon or tuna on a dining table half a globe away, global warming due to our massive use of fossil fuels..what other deeds are we doing, that in our frenzy of consumer buzz, we forget that whatever we are taking in, are depleting our natural resources?
Sometimes I think it's really the time to look at how man should live with nature..instead of trying to lord over it. It is definitely not right that dolphins, and other animals as well, should be slaughtered just for our unjustified incessant and excessive needs. Like, do we really need to eat sharksfins? Or was that just a extravagant way of showing off our affluence? If this goes on, will there be a point, beyond which the planet we live in loses the ability to regenerate itself any more?
In the show, many Japaneses are unaware that their fellow countrymen are killing dolphins. These people are unaware that as consumers, they are perpectuating the massacre of one of the mascot they are promoting in the tourist town of Taiji. It's an irony that the little girl was patting the dolphin softie in the souvenir shop, when at the dolphin site, hundred of dolphines are murdered with multiple stabs, dying slow deaths. Are our lives so compartmentalised..that we may be unaware that we are actually part of an ugly chain of events? Sea Worlds and marine parks as fronts for an ugly dolphin trade, rapid deforestation to support commercial demand for wood, over-fishing to provide that fresh salmon or tuna on a dining table half a globe away, global warming due to our massive use of fossil fuels..what other deeds are we doing, that in our frenzy of consumer buzz, we forget that whatever we are taking in, are depleting our natural resources?
Sometimes I think it's really the time to look at how man should live with nature..instead of trying to lord over it. It is definitely not right that dolphins, and other animals as well, should be slaughtered just for our unjustified incessant and excessive needs. Like, do we really need to eat sharksfins? Or was that just a extravagant way of showing off our affluence? If this goes on, will there be a point, beyond which the planet we live in loses the ability to regenerate itself any more?
I remember that someone told me, that people who chose to watch a certain documentary they are already choosing to believe what is the being said. I say that it's a reminder, to see what we fail to see or choose not to see.
(p.s. - this reminds me of another show..Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, from my favourite Gibli Studio; showing how the Earth struggle to regenerate itself. I cant believe that Google Video has the whole clip! But voiced over in English. The original one in Jap is a must watch)
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