The Cove Hits Select Theatres Today
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 31st, 2009 in Animal Issues, Film & TV.
If you’re in the New York or Los Angeles area, you have the opportunity to see the breathtaking documentary, The Cove this weekend.
The Cove covers the annual killing of over 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Japan’s Taiji, Wakayama.
Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos, the documentary was filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and hidden cameras disguised as ocean rocks.
It all started when former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who captured dolphins in the same cove during the 1960s for the movie Flipper, started to realize that dolphins were intelligent creatures that weren’t being served justly when held in captivity.
Eventually, O’Barry joined forces with Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society to travel to Japan and expose the bloody industry of dolphin meat.
Visit the official website of The Cove and learn more about what you can do to help dolphins, both in captivity and those being slaughtered for meat.
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July 31st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
What a horrible industry, especially considering 1. they are not only killing dolphins, but 2. they are serving mercury tainted meat to unsuspecting individuals.
I hope this film opens a lot of eyes.