The Cove

The red you see in the photograph. That's dolphin blood.

Just finished watching the  Oscar-winning docu The Cove.  

It's about a beautiful little cove in Japan into which dolphins are driven every September and either captured to become show dolphins in SeaWorld-type shows around the world, or they are slaughtered in the cove for their meat.

The film makers had to go in by stealth mode to get footage of the carnage, so well guarded and off limits has this little cove been made.

Scientists who have studied dolphins now believe that they are self-aware. Meaning, when they are driven into that cove, they know what's going to happen; they can think - they can predict things, ..... they know they and their babies are going to be slain.

Could our species be any more cruel?

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