Have you watched The Cove yet?
You should.
It’s a film that elicits a strong reaction from all sides; I’ve heard everything from “I laughed all the way through” to “OhmygodIcriedsomuchmyeyesfellout!”
Whaling, and the dolphin slaughter that is the focus of The Cove are hard issues for someone like me (a Canadian meat-eater) to tackle. Our country defends an annual seal hunt that’s as much of a slaughter as anything else.
Mind you, the seal hunt doesn’t spread toxic food through our country.
We’re up against a wall when it comes to fisheries around the world. A great number of people depend upon them to survive, but a greater number are complicit in destroying ocean habitat as quickly and completely as possible.
As someone who grew up fishing our rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, the decline in what I hate to call “stocks” is truly frightening. Equally frightening is that jobs, money, and fierce nationalism are in the driver’s seat, while our health and that of our planet rides in the back, if not in the trunk wrapped up in an old carpet.
I quit eating seafood a long time before I watched The Cove, and I’m not ashamed to say I won’t be eating seal again any time soon – it just wasn’t for me, but the white fur gloves are great thankyouverymuch.
This is just a really longwinded way of me saying you should watch The Cove, and put some thought into what you consume and how that plays out in the world around you.