the cove

The cove is a bias film showing only the killing of the dolphins. The film leaves out what the true nature for these actions. The Japanese are not killing them just for the sake of killing them. They are doing it because their culture is an ocean thriving community that’s main resource is fish. With thousands of dolphins harvesting fish out of the coastal waters it is depleting their food supply. The Japanese in the film described them as a “pest” and that is exactly what they are. in our culture we do the same thing just with smaller creatures that we consider less intelligent. If our crops are under attack from “pest” we exterminate them to save are resources. yet the only reason it is acceptable is because we have grown up with this as our mind set. but its no different then what they do. its just like killing a wolf or bob cat. their both very intelligent creatures but we see nothing morally wrong with it. It is understandable where the producers are coming from. the producers show a great amount of evidence with the cruelty behind the slaughtering of the animals. Like the way the fishermen drive them into a single location and the unethical ways they kill them. In a since this film is a Trojan horse because of the methods the used to get the evidence and how they out smarted the Japanese police. No other documentary has ever used military reconnaissance methods to obtain information i.e. ” night vision, hiding cameras in fake rocks, doing black out surveillance".  This film had a devastating turn out for the Japanese. not just the people who were killing the dolphins but for the officials who were preaching that there ways were humane and the effects of the dolphin meat served no threat to the population. Though they knew the meat was laced with mercury, they still denied all evidence and introduced it to the public and schools causing a high outbreak of mercury poisoning.