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Originally Posted by MissMisa
I saw some of this, it actually kind of upset me so much I couldn't finish watching it.
It's not the fact that it's dolphins they are eating/killing or whatever, it's the way they do it that people seem to have the issue with. It's very slow and painful for the animals in question, and much less humane than the methods used to kill cows etc.
I honestly don't know enough about it to comment, but I'm interested why this happens when most of the Japanese people don't know about it/don't want it? Is there any political reason or anything?
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It's because of the money. It's like... a billion dollar industry or something. They sell the dolphins to people who want to train them for dolphin shows at aquariums. And then the ones that aren't sold are killed for their meat. Only, they label it as whale meat. Cause dolphin has toxic amounts of mercury. (This is just what I know from watching th cove, and I have no idea how much of it is true, or how biased it is.)
I do think that the movie is probably quite biased, but still quite educational, and worth the watch.