re: The Cove...Oscar Winner for Best Documentary

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so are pigs, deer, cows, etc... the answer is hypocricy

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I have to agree with this. I don't agree with killing dolphins at all, but until I give up eating pork, beef, etc., I should probably keep my mouth shut about it.

holy crap...

ok, comparing them to chickens and cows is retarded. Since when does 99.9999% of the US not eat chicken and beef? Since when does chicken and beef have so much mercury in them that you could get poisoning if you eat them? What do they do with all that dolphin meat if nobody eats dolphin in Japan then?

It's all very sickening. But I won't give away the whole movie here.

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You think cows and chickens are cool with being slaughtered because they wind up getting eaten?

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what does that have to do with the dolphins?

You think if chickens were poisonous to be eaten and no one at them in the US, and they were being mislabeled as another meat...people in the US would be ok with tons of them being slaughtered by being stabbed and left to bleed out?

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ok, comparing them to chickens and cows is retarded. Since when does 99.9999% of the US not eat chicken and beef? Since when does chicken and beef have so much mercury in them that you could get poisoning if you eat them? What do they do with all that dolphin meat if nobody eats dolphin in Japan then?

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Who gives a rat's arse if Japanese people get mercury poisoning by knowingly and willingly eating whale and dolphin meat? The only actual bad thing that the documentary pointed out was that they mislabeled dolphin meat as whale meat in the supermarket.

It's the Japanese culture, leave them alone. If the Japanese came out with some study about how crawfish suffer when they are boiled and they are high in fat which in turn leads to a greater risk of heart disease, are you going to stop eating crawfish? No, you would tell them to STFU and mind their own damn business.

It's a stupid animal, people care more about a frickin dolphin than a suffering human being

Fuk U dolphin

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Lloyd Christmas

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look at this frickin guy.

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Who gives a rat's arse if Japanese people get mercury poisoning by knowingly and willingly eating whale and dolphin meat? The only actual bad thing that the documentary pointed out was that they mislabeled dolphin meat as whale meat in the supermarket.

It's the Japanese culture, leave them alone. If the Japanese came out with some study about how crawfish suffer when they are boiled and they are high in fat which in turn leads to a greater risk of heart disease, are you going to stop eating crawfish? No, you would tell them to STFU and mind their own damn business.

It's a stupid animal, people care more about a frickin dolphin than a suffering human being

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Obviously, you don't care about "suffering human beings" either.

Did you even see the mangled bodies the mercury poisoning caused? "Willingly", yes, but in what way did the documentary show those kids (or adults) as "knowingly" consuming dolphin meat with 100x's the mercury content?


Here's the real answer:

Even though they are edible "mammals", we don't eat dogs, cats, or horses here.

Flipper & his "smile" make him as close to an ocean pet we have.

That's the main reason we don't eat dolphins, and that is why the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act made dolphin meat taboo here. Most sane countries have agreed.

If this was a documentary about the black market horse meat trade in Mexico, or brutally killing dogs in East Timor, and selling the meat for money, this board who be horrified.



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Dolphins are also extremely smart

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Then why do they get lured in the same cove every damn year?

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the only species to have sex for fun

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I guess that's why I cry every time I have sex, because I certainly am not doing it for fun.

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Mahi Mahi is pretty good. and it's a kind of dolphin

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No its not it's a fish.

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Lloyd Christmas

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Everything this guy said is right on. This movie is absolutely ridiculous. Blatant, one-sided propaganda. Michael Moore tells a more two-sided story than this crapfest.

It's not illegal to kill dolphins. It's not illegal to eat dolphins. I don't even know why the Japanese try to hide it from Westerners. They can do whatever they want with the dolphins. It's probably delicious. If I ever go to Japan, I am going to eat an entire dolpin. I want to go to the dolphin buffet.


First "Flipper" commits suicide because she's so sad that she's in captivity, which is hilarious to me....and it gets worse from there.

As far as the mercury poisoning, the cause is the industrial waste that is dumped into the waters. BUT NO ONE IS DOING A DOCUMENTARY ON THAT ARE THEY? Nope...dolphins are cute, so I could get an oscar if I get people to cry about them. This world is f'ed....we'd rather cry about whales and dolphins than solve any real problems.

Also, if you eat tuna, tilapia, or frozen crawfish often, chances are you would test positive for mercury. Where does your frozen seafood come from? If you're not checking before you buy, and you buy the cheap bulk packs at wal-mart, you are buying chinese, mercury tainted fish.

Too bad Wal-Mart doesn't sell dolphin.

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Otherwise, horses, dogs, cats, and dolphins are actually a lean means of protein nutritionally. It's a mental thing with civilized cities/countries in that they don't want to see Rover or Flipper whacked over the head or speared and then served on a plate. So much so, they have made laws making these horses, dogs, cats, and dolphins taboo to eat. And rightfully so. Thus the outrage.

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People in Europe eat a lot of horse. Are they not civilized?

Also, laws can't make something "Taboo" only hippies can.