Inside Japan's Global Dolphin Trade | *Trigger Warning: Graphic Content*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- In Taiji, Japan, the dolphin hunting industry has shifted from killing dolphins for their meat to a more lucrative, but equally controversial industry-the capture of live animals for overseas "dolphin shows."
In this video, VICE World News travels to the town made infamous in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” with Ren Yabuki, the director of Life Investigation Agency, a Japanese animal rights NGO and the only group tasked with monitoring this year’s dolphin hunts.
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Just got done watching...I`m a grown 59yo man and I have tears.The drowning of baby dolphins was just too much...Hopefully one day, the World will visit Taiji...
Yes...hopefully the world will visit Taiji ... and shame those fracking pieces of excrement.... what truly terrible people.
@@maxzorin9425 Watch Seaspiracy from Netflix and you will see much worse than this. Taiji is just the tip of the iceberg.
@@Nick66606 Between the news, volunteering at the local animal rescue and daily observations of humanity in action, I have more than enough tragedy and sadness to fill my day. I counterbalance this flood of misery with my dogs, my friends, my books and my drink. Subtracting another hour from those things I enjoy, to learn another tragedy I can’t fix, perpetrated by people I can’t educate, is self inflicted harm, and I am not masochistic, though… for those Taijin assholes I could easily see my self being “Hannibalistic.” Sibilo caratteristico with a nice chianti perhaps…
@@maxzorin9425 Excellent explanation of most people's views of the lack of compassion in TAIJI,Japan and China.
@CheesyChicken4LiFe WHAT AN IGNORANT COMMENT
I’m glad this is getting more exposure, there’s literally no reason to be killing the dolphins or a valid explanation to justify it.
to eat?
@@jenasis2903 it’s literal poison.
@@atxbee lol no?
@@jenasis2903 it literally is. dolphins have a high concentration of mercury.
@@atxbee lmao no. Maybe in the Faroe islands, but not in Japan, or Norway etc. They check concentration so it's all g. Tasty
it's crazy how this happens for about 6 months every year and so many people have no idea. the fishermen hate when people record them doing this and even said, "if the world finds out what goes on here, we'll be shut down..."
They're better shut down
And youtube will probably suppress this video :(
They would be more than shut down Id ascend my own ninja squad to fillet those shitheads!
なんで価値観の違いとして受け入れられないのか？
これでは争いがなくなることは無い
@@ああ-f1n1v A difference in values doesn't have to be accepted. We had a difference in values with Hitler as well, should we have accepted it then?
Great piece. As the guy who filmed most of The Cove movie including the slaughter scene, this brings back many intense memories. God bless Ren, LIA, Ric, and Dolphin Project for keeping at it.
Dolphin Project never care about dolphin abuse happening in San Diego.
God bless🤣🤣🤣
白人共はいつも争いを生む
盲目的に神を信じているから
@@gigiparis5654 So your point is what? That because they don't address your specific concern they should be doing nothing? I would rather have people doing something somewhere that nothing anywhere... AND what exactly have you done to combat this cruelty that gives you the moral high ground to criticize the efforts of others? I know for a fact that the Dolphin Project have taken more action than I have, and I am appreciate for all they HAVE DONE rather than critical for what that have not done.
Fair play Charles for your work in The Cove - one of my favourite films of all time, but least favourite to watch for obvious reasons. Fair play for helping to highlight that! The Dolphin Project are reporting live this year. Ive done a video, about Twitter censoring them. I noticed no other social platforms are doing so. People need to pressure Twitter into changing this policy, especially at a time when they are reporting from the cove in Taiji right now. Hope some folks here can send a tweet at twitter!
Don’t forget kunito seko
Thank you Ren, It must be so hard to witness & document... We are forever grateful for your hard work bringing this to the forefront... Taiji is such a beautiful place that could be so successful as a dolphin tourism district... Those boats used for slaughter could be used to take tourists out in the ocean to observe the beauties of nature! NO MORE NETS! NO MORE PENS!
Supply and demand. Just like prostitution, drugs etc.
What I don't get is predator priests.
Who keep supplying them?
Well said!
@CheesyChicken4LiFe if you need to ask that question you will never understand the answer.
I disagree. I think that all dolphins deserve a painful death. They are potheads, rapist, and disgusting serial killer of the sea.
In Ancient Greece eating dolphins is akin to cannibalism. Dolphins are known to go out of their way to save humans. It’s sad how some of our species treat our watery friends.
"Would you feel sorry for a man confined in a five square meter room?"
Hell yeah, if he's kidnapped, separated from his family that's probably been slaughtered, confined against his will, forced to do tricks, and doesn't even understand why he can't have the whole world open to him anymore.
Sounds like a worldwide problem being done to all kinds of animals
I think mankind has now know what its like being confined, from a 5 square meter room, to a 500 square meter house and backyard to a 5 acres farm. For days up to months. It is not pleasant. Then your townspeople died of coronavirus. Your neighbours. Your families and friends. Hopefully the human race learns from it and start treating nature better.
@Kkay Wettemup True. But in probably most cases, prisoners did something bad to get there. What have the dolphins done?
This is more than just the culling of "animals". It has been proven time and time again that Dolphins possess a level of intelligence and sapience that is very close to if not on par with our own. This isn't a hunt, it's genocide.
I am against whaling, but those who criticize only Japan for this are very shortsighted and stupid. Whaling is also done in Norway, Denmark and Korea. It was only exposed because of Japan's lax security.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU for being there and documenting what is surely some of the worst atrocities on nature the people of the planet inflict and now must witness! Ren, I have watched your work for a while and you are super wonderful, efficient and impassioned! THANK YOU! Just to see the look on your face when it was a Blue Cove Day makes you so special!
Would I feel sorry for a man trapped in a large room?
Yes. Yes I would. You're taking the freedom away from a person who is used to going to work and overall living their daily life.
The problem with the way dolphins and small wales are kept is the fact that they don't get enrichment, nor is it anywhere close to their natural environment where they swim hundreds of miles a day. Even your average zoo in most countries will have regulations and laws on how to ensure that the animal has the ability to perform their natural behaviours (often through enrichment) and the most dolphins have is some trainer blowing a whistle or asking them to perform behaviours they wouldn't in the wild.
Yet we've all been locked in our houses for a year by our masters
Supply and demand. Just like prostitution, drugs etc.
What I don't get is predator priests.
Who keep supplying them?
Thank you for making this video. I can't imagine the heartbreak you suffer when you see these animals suffer. I am sorry for that and will pray for you and that this video will help open people's eyes. Hopefully soon we can live in peace with these beautiful animals.
元漁師で太地くじらの博物館の前ディレクターという方が「日本の場合には崇めるとか敬うとか祀るとかっていう、あなた方の命を頂きますよという風な、私は他の国にはないと思うんですよ。」と言っていますが、自分で言っていて矛盾は感じないのでしょうか？確かに外国には崇める相手を殺す考えはないと思いますね…😥お年を召した方は古い常識を取り払うのは難しいと思いますが、この言葉を聞いて「ちょっとそれは今の時代もう違うんじゃないか」と若い人だけでなく多くの人が感じ取れるのではないかと、私は思いました。
生きる為に殺す。
生かされてることに感謝する。
何もおかしなことは無い。
キリスト教的差別思想の貴方には理解出来ないだろうがね。
あなたはきっとヴィーガンなのだろう。
心を持って、命をいただく。だから無駄にはしない。売れ残りは廃棄、といったハンバーガーチェーン等とは違う考え方ですね。ちなみに豚も牛も鳥も人間によく懐きます。実は賢いんです。
油を取るだけのためにクジラを乱獲していたアメリカ。クジラが絶滅しそうになると、クジラの肉は美味いよと、使えなくなった捕鯨船を地球の反対側の日本に売りつけた。そういう歴史を知るとね、、、過去は過去、今は今、とやっていたら、最初に悪さしたやつがいつまでたっても得をする。ちなみにアメリカ海軍はイルカやアシカを今でも軍事利用してますよ。それもどうなのかね。
まあ、白人至上主義のレイシストが立ち上げたVICEなんか、金儲けのためのただのエンタメですけどね。真剣に観るもんじゃないでしょ。
若い人、っていう括りワイは嫌い
矛盾は感じないでしょう。また時代も関係ないと思いますが、、むしろ、人口増加による食糧難により、陸生生物だけでは今後、人類が必要なタンパク質が不足すると言われています。地球の7割を占める海からもタンパク質を調達しないと、更に食糧難が深刻化すると思います。
因みに、クジラ、イルカだけを特別視する理由は何故でしょうか？
@K O では、捕鯨を容認している日本国政府は、法を犯しているということでよろしいでしょうか？
キリスト教徒やイスラム教徒は日本から離れた方がいいですか？
それと、クジラ、イルカを特別視する理由について回答頂けますか？
didn't even watch, the heart hurts too much just seeing the title. just came to support and look at comments for comfort in people who share the same feeling as me. I'm sorry humans can be so cruel.
in turn humans are animals . when we behave like basic nature without Spirit; acts like this are tolerated .... the genocide of sentient beings is never justifiable . Makes me wonder what the earth would be like without humans plaguing it
I think its all our problem, you guys go to the Aquarium right? We see captured dolphins. We eat sushi. Government are also making money out of it by selling and trading. We paid for the tickets and the meat. We are all to blame for their capture, for our amusement and pleasure even if we don’t eat their meat. So before you blame others, start thinking what you should do to help sustain the world for future generations. Mother nature provided us a lot. We have to give back.
yes, that is why i don't go to marine parks. more people need to be educated on the dark side of that industry and know that buying tickets to cetacean shows allows these hunts to continue
Supply and demand. Just like prostitution, drugs etc.
What I don't get is predator priests.
Who keep supplying them?
Na, I don’t go to aquariums or zoos. I’d rather see them in the wild where they belong. That kinda entertainment is dated anyway, it’s not like it’s 1900 anymore. Seeing animals thrive is more of a thrill than just looking at it in a box.
Sushi are not made from mammals at least the ones I eat
Omg, this is incredibly sad. People are truly evil. 😢😢
So much of the world has stopped capturing and killing dolphins. Look at the good it has done. These hunts are inhumane. The Taiji dolphin hunts need to end NOW.
This should be shown to Asian Boss so they can make an interview if the country is aware of it and how they feel about it and what should be done.
They are aware and it's legal there.
They are aware. They open a festival for this event. They also sell dolphin meat in supermarkets
It should be widely telecasted on Japanese television daily.
人間としての思いやりとか…心がないのかな？この人たちは、可哀想とか苦しさを感じないのかな
私は見ているだけで、締め付けられる思いです
人間がごめんね
This town's economy as well as it's population have plummeted despite hunting dolphins and small whales for many decades. The town has never flourished compared to other fishing villages. However, they are so proud of it that you can find " Whale Town " at the entrance of their town. But it's only a matter of time until it becomes bankrupt. As much as I love Japan , their cultures and traditions, this town's so called traditions have to be abolished completely. They actually don't need to hunt dolphins because Kumano Sea is abundant with marine life as it is located in the north of the pacific ocean.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -plato
honestly I can't watch it, it is too heartbreaking for me, but I wish more people knew about this awful business
Seems like most of the commenters did not bother watching the entire documentary... anyways, just to point out to Vice, the ex-dolphin trainer said "jōshi" meaning your superior e.g. supervisor/manager not joshi which you translated as girls.
Damn Japanese doing their WWII cruelty all over again.
People in japan are well aware of this... they know... nothing will change.
th-cam.com/video/QayUjPoiTmE/w-d-xo.html
Japanese have such mindset nothing can change them. Even their Government is so damn stubborn. They refuse to heed to advice from other nations. Such a.holes. Dolphin meat is high in mercury & not advisable for human consumption.
This needs more exposure
I saw a documentary when i was in LA 11 yrs ago about this and its brutal . Now 11 yrs later my estranged brother has lived in Japan for a decade and he to is working on a documentary on this topic .
Wow… i cried the second I saw the first dolphin being slaughtered. This is beyond heartbreaking for me. This is like killing people, as dolphins are just as conscious and sophisticated as we are… if not more so as we have yet to learn their vast language.
Are the police somehow involved? Why are they chasing off the only people with working hearts(people who actually care for the beings we share this planet with)? They complained that he might film something illegal. Isn’t that good? If something illegal happens and somebody has it on film, that’s evidence! They should be thanking him. Why do the police harass people on the right side of this? Are they being paid by the dolphin killers? This is such a crime.. in so many ways.
My only rejoice is that people ALWAYS reap what they sew. I hope that they reap their consequences sooner rather than later…
Looks like the police are themselves "criminals". Rightly said. What ever ones sows so shall they reap.
Would you feel sorry for a man in a 5x5m room? What type of analogy is that! Taken from his family and kept there against his will forced to perform for food erm yeah I think i would. He should be kept in one
I've hunted deer, hogs, squirrels, and have slaughtered pigs, cows, and chickens, throughout my life, on top of fishing, for food and nothing else. I've always given my thanks and prayers to those animals that I've take down to put food on the table. But the killings and cruel treatment of these dolphins was hard to watch. Extremely. Kudos to these brave individuals, along with all the others, for shining a light on this.
Isnt this like 10 yr old content? Any updates on the situation?
Anyone that swims with dolphins or watches dolphins in captivity is guilty
Even if your snorkeling off some beautiful coast and some dolphins come to swim with you?
@@mutalix swimming with them in captivity
@@jlc5271
Absolutely agree!!
Even if they are rescued non releasable dolphins?
Sadly, when I went to Cancun, I was too young to understand animal cruelty, so I went to swim with the dolphins there😢😢😢
In Japan , they respect the lives they take for food... The hunters have shown they have absolutely zero respect for the dolphins they slaughter. They run over them with skiffs causing injury , they have been heard laughing as they kill, they have been seen hitting the dolphins etc..... if that is their version of respect then they are sadly lacking!! As for the rant of the fisherman, it is illegal to take the humpback whale.. He was clearly frustrated and obviously was angry because he could not commit an illegal act due to Ren's diligence. The hunters/fishermen seem to think they are above the law by the looks of it. They know what they do is wrong but greed drives them..Thank you Ren and other Japanese activists for your dedication and compassion for the dolphins of Taiji.. There is hope for them due to your voices.
I do hope and pray these same criminals are re-born as Dolphins and Whales and face similar deaths as these poor creatures are going through.
That whole town could benefit from the eco tourism they could probably get. The fisherman would probably be just as happy to take people out to see the dolphins, as long as they are making a living still.
Ric O'Barry told a story on the cove how one time he came without a camera and a fisherman, looked at him picked up a baby dolphin and slit its throat. Apparently it was already dead but he only did it as a message to Ric.
So sadly no, I don't think they would be just as happy with boat tours and what not. It's a nice thought though
I praise this man 💪🙌 for getting up every day to make sure the rest of us in the world know what these horrible people are doing to these beautiful creature's we should be worshipping not killing!
I agree. Dolphins are way more mature then us.
my advert before the video was master class Japanese cooking
I just found out about this..
Now I'm not one to go and be all "ur a monster for doing this" or "ur a monster for eating meat" or anything. I eat meat, other animals eat meat, hell the dolphins eat fish and such. We need to eat meat as a way to get proteins and nutrients that plants don't have (I mean, we ARE omnivores).
But do we REALLY need to eat dolphins? Like, for real? They are one the most intelligent creatures on this planet, able to even kill themselves when they are too depressed. Why do we have to push them in a corner and brutality slaughter them? They were not bread to eat like cows and chickens and other meats, Since I see that argument Alot in the comments, certain cows and chickens are breaded for consumption, while animals like horses, dogs and cats are breaded for companionship. Dolphins? Whales? Sea life in general? They were made to live, along side us. If that is the case, why not we just eat each other? We are meat, we have intelligence and we can suffer excruciating pain-
I want to visit Japan one day, it's my dream too, and I will not fault them on their traditions and ways of life, as we Americans have ways of life that the Japanese don't agree with either. But like I said, I will never eat a horse, dog or Dolphin. I don't agree with this, and believe it should be shut down, because even Hitler thought he was the hero in the end. But I won't fault them either, because it's their "tradition" and their way of life (Maybe, I'm not sure, I'd like to ask any Japanese person their thoughts on it? I've seen that some don't agree with it and some that do, I dunno-)
What the heck? I thought the pandemic kept those jerks at bay.
Plus, they don't kill dolphins. They make sure those creatures suffer slow and painful deaths.
May love & peace be with you all. Hope one day they can see they are just a entitled to live as any other life form in this planet.
So everything is equally deserving of death.
@@hungvu262 exactly
Before you comment, reflect on yourself. *Do you oppose murdering dolphins BUT eat cows, pigs, chickens?* Speciesism is hypocrisy. Go vegan.
It's so barbaric Please Don't buy a Ticket to a Dolphin show or swim-with-dolphin activity. They are literally dying to entertain humans.
horrific.
Cruel Japanese...
Found out about this from the Seapsiracy show on Netflix..😡
This is the same town that drowned a young minke whale after keeping her trapped inside fishing nets for nineteen days. Ren and Kunito live streamed the minke whale every day, and Ren was able to use his drone to get video of the nearly 20-minute drowning. I am grateful for and have learned so much from Ren and Kunito this hunting season. The young minke whale was named “Hope,” and Ren’s video is on his TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/OIZ8kls9FTM/w-d-xo.html
I was surprised that wasn’t shown considering it was even mentioned in western news articles. (And a very short one in Japan as usual not questioning anything and just saying it’s not possible to free it because of currents if I remember correctly.) Too graphic maybe?
It is good to have a look behind the scenes of this cruel, heartless, and murderous ongoing spectacle
Why do only certain animals get preferential treatment/protection from greater society?
What about the billions of chickens, cows, pigs, and etc, that are slaughtered (in more inhumane ways) and consumed every year?
The way some people get all riled up about these “special animals” while not giving a damn about the other ones seems like a very unfair double standard.
yes, all animals are special & deserve respect & preservation. criminal animal abuse is everywhere within the so-called industry.
It's called "speciesism", the precursor to human "racism".
I'd say it has to do with the concept of duty. Some people think, "The duty of this animal is to be our pet and the duty of this animal is to be eaten." In short, humans think we own the world so we dictate the position and duty of other species. If anyone goes against that order, we call them freaks.
While the ethics of eating meat in general certainly should be questioned, there are a number of ecological and ethical issues to dolphin farming that go beyond eating any animal for food.
From the ecological standpoint, humans domesticated livestock since the dawn of humanity specifically for eating, and we ourselves evolved to eat them. That means that, as far as eating meat goes, there's minimum ecological impact associated with eating farm animals, and most domesticated livestock species will go extinct if humans had no incentive to farm them. On the other hand, Ocean ecosystems are difficult to observe and we have no idea how to calculate the grander ecological impact of killing several pods of dolphins a year. Not to mention dolphin pods have their own separate cultures passed down through the generations, so each one plays an irreplaceable role in their local ecosystem.
From a economic standpoint, farmers put their own resources into their produces, which is regulated. These fisherman pay lipservice to respecting their prey (in an extremely racist way, by implying that noone else in the world respects the animals they eat), but they don't put any money back into maintaining the ocean, which is a shared resource that they don't own. This means everyone else pays for their poaching.
From a cultural standpoint, conventional meat produce have nutritional value and are used in cultural practices throughout the world. These farmers are selling a toxic product with to an extremely niche market as a fake cultural practice in order to cover up international wildlife trafficking. They're killing dolphins to profit off people who think dolphins are cute. All of this together is definitely a greater crime against greater society than meat eating in itself.
Dolphin Whale meat has high levels of MERCURY which is not advisable for human consumption
HORRENDOUS! CRUEL!
Please add English subtitles
@20:26 you spelled [areas] wrong, but managed to nail association...nice
we deserve every bit we get back from the earth... how we can destroy such beauty is completely beyond me.. its like were writing the handbook on how to turn heaven into hell by merit..
Thats our Nature we are a Predator just like all other animals
@@oscarobregon3007 yeah but we're taking advantage of nature and in the process we're destroying our home and eventually ourselves
@@oscarobregon3007 What other animal destroys its own environment like humans?
@@jenniheartsharkie3747 nd even if you found another destructive animal.. i bet you it wouldnt be one that goes to school and is explained all this nd then goes to church to thank for everything gods given them... wtf..
Did southpark tell the Japanese that dolphins were responsible for the nukes during ww2?
I need clarification for what that is said in 22:19
"In Japan, our culture demands that we respect the lives we take to eat: Please forgive me for taking your life in order to survive...I don't think they have this approach to the sanctity of life in any other country..."
How is this reflected and applied in practice in the present case of the slaughter of dolphins??
この部分は映画の内容に対して語っているのであって、今回の虐殺について語っているわけではない。
This is real Japan. Japan do actually many horrible things. ...
For wonder their country is in crisis. The world has moved forward but not Japan.
Ahhh that's why theres no dolphin pokemon yet
This is still going on wtf dude theres no fucking hope for humans
Please watch the 2009 documentary The Cove.
Why is it so hard for these people to understand there is a massive difference between killing an animal that has been domesticated and breed for the sole purpose of being killed for food and capturing a wild animal and slaughtering it. Besides u dont see cows and chickens mercilessly rounded up abusivly manhandled and then brutally killed swimming in its familys blood slowly painfully drownding in blood for up to 20 minutes. Please tell me how its the same from a ethical standpoint
Chickens and cows are also dumb af.
They have also been selectively evolved by us for hundreds of years to be food.
Eating them has no major impact on the ecosystem.
All of that is different with dolphins.
What makes unnecessary killing wrong/unethical? The fact that you're going against a sentient being's will to live & emotions. Intelligence, breeding or species don't matter. Otherwise it'd be okay if people killed dogs or if another species came along & treated humans the way non-vegans/speciesists treat other animals- & I don't think you'd agree with that no matter how much smarter that other species would be.
I recommend checking out Earthling Ed's videos as he explains it all very well.
@@KanashiAtisuto we evolved to eat meat.
Get lost vegan.
@@Doom_Squid_Son eh no, especially chickens
It's proven that bird brains are more efficiently organized for intelligence
If a chicken's brain was as big as a dolphin's they'd be far smarter than them or humans
Intelligence doesn't matter
@@ivyme5783 no.
Ren, you are our hope. Thank you.
Why do you blur their faces? If I was you, I'd show the shit out of their faces to the world. These people need to educate, especially that person at 23:40.
YOU NEED TO HIGHLIGHT THE SIGNIFANCE OF THE TOXIC LEVEL OF PPC, METHLYMERCURY, FOR EXAMPLE , DENATURING THE ENZYME
Yes eating an apex predator is not healthy.
Thank you Ren!
Why? Do we need to eat them and whales? Really?
I'm watching this eating McDonald's. Cows are actually really smart, too.
I've given up beef and dairy, there are docu's on here about it. what I call Big Cow is much worse for the earth than pork or chicken. Not ready to go vegan giving up supporting what I call Big Cow is a huge step forward.
@@alexcarter8807 Yep. I always wonder why people keep dying from cancers..its the processed food and the red meat.
I'm eating smoked brisket i love the playing cows on the dodo . TBH nature is much more brutal of a killer than humans . most humans 90% do not enjoy the suffering of other creatures so we kill quick . animals in nature are eaten while alive with no remorse . watch a Pac man frog eat another frog .
Cows are dumb af what are you talking about!?
Dolphins are literally as smart as primates which includes humans.
@@condorX2 Cancer is genetic. It has nothing to do with red meat lol.
Thats the same as killing people when he's looking at u and understand everything thats going on around hem there human in diff body should.d be ashamed
This is bad in every way it should stop I feel like saying the environment is a one world anatomy
0'45 is this photo is in Japan? , "White Whale"is catched at Taiji. right?
0:46 that girl is from transformers revenge of the fallen i think
Hunt these hunters like the way they do to these poor thinking creatures
even in Japan they no the frustration of typing back to someone and them blocking you. lol
这种屠杀🐬的魚夫和财团跟吃者失心疯的行为...一定会灾难降临...可悲可怜
Thank you for your passion.
Technically hunting any creature for meat is bad and with this mentality makes you a monster. I am past the stage of accepting all humans including myself as a sinner and a monster but with dolphins and whales on the line, they are endangered marine life and not breaded in farms like other meat is hence it is not nice and makes you utter evil to cause extinction of a type of mammal fish just for your selfish needs. They cannot use survival as an excuse as well because there is many other things to eat today instead of this or to change their fishing market for other common fishes instead of dolphins and whales. It's funny how locals have an option to generate way more money with dolphin viewing attractions which will conserve their habitat and let people view them or even through dolphin viewing and research facilities which will give them money. So in the end for these hypocrites both eating and livelihood won't be a problem and that town with so much beauty won't be stained by blood. I wonder are Japanese really okay in the head?
Thank you for sharing this documentary, the dolhphins are beautiful. My simple question is, why can we humans become so dominant over which animals we should hunt and which not. The cove portrays this so unfairly, we should face the fact that so much more cattle are slaughtered every day, and respect every food we eat, would that be a dolphin or a cow. Hunting dolphins for commercial use is a totally different issue, and it is very odd that these activists overly focus their attentions to Taiji Japan.
Why should they stop people from killing cows? There are refugees in need of safety, shelters, and medical attention.
Why help refugees when there are people starving in our own country? Help those on our soil instead.
Why help those who have a better chance at receiving aid? We should focus on the homeless of other, less wealthy countries.
See the problem with your statement? Telling someone to stop caring out their issue just to focus on another is missing the point entirely. The activist trying to bring awareness are not telling you that eating farm animals is wrong. If you want to support organizations that are trying to bring awareness to the plight of farm animals, there are plenty of them. There are many problems in this world, and someone having a passion to stop one does not make them somehow less important. Dolphin hunting damages the ecosystem of the ocean, their meat is dangerous to consume, and the wildlife trade in life dolphins for entertainment helps keep the hunts alive. These are problems worth bringing awareness to.
GRRRRRRR this sucks BIG. That it's still going on says a lot about our species -- we are the plague, we are the assholes. And that's not just the slaughterers themselves, but every one of us who does not speak out about this (and every injustice we humans see and do). Either we are part of the solution and reform or we are part of the problem.
People all over the world love dolphins, if they only knew that this animal might not have a future left on this planet. That is, if this slaughter is allowed to continue.
This needs to fucking stop
Imagine if Dophins had IQs And EQs that were on average higher then Humans
Amazing that despite the exposure things haven't gotten better since the cove. Another reminder nothing changes under capitalism.
Same people complaining about dolphin killing have no problem eating other kinds of meat. Just saying.
I mean dolphins are self aware unlike any farm animals we consume at least to my knowledge.
Eating a dolphin is akin to eating a chimpanzee basically
@@gelationousskin835 I would disagree. There have been scientific studies done that show that Pigs are smarter than dogs. Are you going to start consuming dog meat and keeping pigs as pets now?
@@jayaniee I think our current treatment of pigs is wrong but I'm still fine with eating and consuming both.
@@gelationousskin835 but wouldn’t that go against your original logic in regards to intelligence being the thing that decides whether or not an animal is consumable?
Terrible
protect Ren at all costs!
Thank you so much Ren for recording and sharing this with us.. Shark meat is edible I'm wondering why don't they slaughter sharks instead? Dolphins and Whales meat have high levels of mercury, dangerous for human consumption. Also Dolphins and whales eat smaller fish & they are no competition to the Fishermen if that's their reason for this slaughtering.
"Children in America would kill for dolphin burger"
- Chinese Mr Krabs
今まで何も食わずに生きてきた奴だけ批判していいよ。
Why nobody go to save dolphins in Denmark?
このおっさんはどんな食生活してんだろうな
Its hard for the US to take the moral high ground when it still has aquatic theme parks with orcas and dolphins and Zoos. Sure in practice they justify keeping the animal by saying the animals can't survive in the wild, but that is speculation, you don't know that for a fact! When house cats get lost they easily transition to catching small game, so I'm pretty sure lions, tigers, and bears will manage to kill something to eat. Also, with Orcas and Dolphins being so smart I'm pretty sure they will figure out how to catch a fish.
Exactly.
Why are the Japanese selling live dolphins for $48,000 - because the U.S. wants that supply. Demonize not the source, but the consumers.
@@illustryfe5354 dude if I went around kidnapping and selling women just because there was a demand, yea its bad that there's a market, but I would still be a monster.
@@illustryfe5354 We are all in it together. The $ sign is visible when they write about the price of sale of a live Dolphin or whale.
Sad
is it for food?
I wish all the animals in the ocean would just gang up on their ass when they try to capture anything
sometimes i wish that too. animals know better than that. we just haven't learned from their high standards. they respect nature & others, unlike us humans.
NO MORE NETS!
Cows don’t have toxic levels of mercury, you dolt. 😑
很令人憎恨讨厌……
Human greed exceeds any form of life, apparently.
The difference is that, we do not eat dolphins. In France, they still eat horse. Did anyone notice, how much they make. For selling dolphins, then you get to see a sheet. Where dolphin meat, only sales for $480. I get its traditional for the individuals. A craft handed down from father to son. Keep it up and the dolphins are going to leave earth. Like they did in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Based.
I think settles all the debates on whether cetaceans are more clever than humans. They exist at our mercy, not the other way around. But I agree, we must become more merciful.
The atrocity must be stopped! The righteousness shall arrive!
Share this people!
勘違いしている海外の人々が非常に多くて残念です。
古い思考の高齢者や、政府や漁業の意図は殆どの日本人は知らないし、国内ではその実態の報道もされない。
なので殆どの日本人が虐殺について知れば政府や漁業を非難します。私も非難します。
今の時代、動物達の知性がいかに優れているかなんて国民の殆どが知っているし、我々と同等の知性ある生命の虐殺を許すはずがない。
個人的には、知性が無いと思える植物や魚などは虐殺可能という思考にも疑問を感じるが、生きるために多種の命を奪うのは大前提として、命を奪う理由に値するかどうかが肝心だ。
それと、テレビやインターネットの情報を100％鵜呑みにしないでほしい。事実と真意が大きくズレている事が多いので。