THE COVE - it will make you cry

If you don't cry while while watching this movie you have no soul and might be eaten by a bear.

The movie centers around one seemingly crazy old dude named Richard O'Barry. Ric was Flipper's trainer back in the 60's and has been trying to overcome his role in dolphin captivity for the past 35 years. He wrote a book in 1989 called "Behind the Dolphin Smile" that I read when I was 12 and was infatuated with dolphins.

The movie picks up where the book ends and brings us to the modern exploitation of dolphins. It centers around one small cove in Taiji, Japan where 23,000 dolphins are herded and slaughtered by Japanese fishermen every year. It is the MOST DISTURBING footage of dolphin slaughtering I have EVER seen. The movie was created and produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society and they did a truly superb job. Thought it's a documentary, it shows like a movie, an environmental activists Oceans 11.

The cast of characters include;

Louie Psihoyos, the producer

Joseph Chisholm, the roady

Simon Hutchins, the Marine,

Mandy & Kirk, the FreeDivers,

Greg "Moondog" Mooney, the uber Scuba Diver.

This mod squad each brings something unique to the table as they attempt to covertly hide HD cameras around the heavily guarded cove. Infarred cameras, heli-camera, faux rock housing, night vision divers, one crazy old decoy , some covert ops sh*t.

Movie Highlights:

Countries that are paid by Japan to attend the International Whaling Commission to vote favorably towards Japan's agenda don't even know whales are native to their own country. Come on , you can't even do a tiny bit of research before showing up to the International WHALING Commission. WTF?

Salty ole' Ric O'Barry strapping a monitor to his chest with the dolphin slaughter footage playing and then crashing the IWC. Classic.

Dolphin meat has toxic levels of mercury. Mercury levels that rise 2% every year from the burning of fossil fuels and polluting our oceans. Just another reason we need to find fuel alternatives, and quickly. 70% of the human population relies on seafood as a main food source.

This story, as horrifying as it is, pales in comparison to the larger issue of the depletion of our fisheries throughout the world. Our excessive consumption is creating a deficit that we might not come back from.

"No real change ever comes from the government, it comes from people" We have to stop waiting for our government to fix all our problems and injustices, cause it will never happen. It takes people with a common vision and passion to create change.

Movie trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/

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Hopefully I did a good enough job scaring the shit of you, now go watch the movie and get pissed off.