“Blood Dolphins” Premieres On Animal Planet (Video)
Written by Vegetarian Star on August 26th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Environment-Eco-Green, Film & TV, Household.
Blood Dolphins premieres Friday, August 27th at 11 PM E/T on Animal Planet.
The television series features activist Ric O’Barry, who first helped to expose the practice of killing dolphins in Taiji, Japan for meat through the award winning film, The Cove.
In Blood Dolphins, O’Barry brings along his son Lincoln O’Barry, though he first had second thoughts about doing so.
“Lincoln can go undercover and do things I can’t do,” Ric says. “I really didn’t want him to do this. It’s sort of a double edged sword. I have a lot of different emotions exposing Lincoln to that danger.”
Discovery has added a section under the show’s website which is basically a dolphin encyclopedia filled with facts about the types of dolphins most hunted, a dolphin intelligence quiz, and much more. Dolphins have been found to be loaded with antibacterial soap, for example, even though they’re probably not germaphobes.
Antibacterial agents are becoming a cause for concern for health officials as they may alter a person’s immune system to effectively defend itself , could increase the chances of allergies in children and lead to microorganisms resistant to the agents. All this while the antibacterial products have not shown to provide any added health benefits in households were people are generally healthy. More on this at the CDC.
If this wasn’t a good enough reason to ditch these products for old fashion regular soap and hot water, consider how your next bottle of Germ Blaster is affecting Flipper. Researchers have found Triclosan, a common antibacterial agent in soaps, in the blood of bottlenose dolphins, further enforcing that household products make their way into the waters and effect life other than humans.
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