A world without cetaceans

¶ … Cetaceans

The feeling that this movie (the Cove) brings to peoples heart is obvious unless your heart is made of stone that you are unlikely not to be unaffected by it, when it displays how malevolence man has proved to be. In deed the mind get boggles when you think through if truly the picture comes to the perpetrators and if they know exactly that what they're doing in indulging in such atrocities, this extermination activity of species is found among those who are unsympathetic, brutal, and besmirched by the smell of proceeds that highlights Man's susceptibility for obliteration. It is total bullshit and it just portrays how deliberately ignorant we can at times get due to either lack of indulgent, or just simply burying our heads under the sand not to change incorrect mindsets in the name of dominating superiority over another by claiming a virtue of explanation of the preservation of culture.

Summary of the movie

A shocking secret that a few frantic men will do whatever it takes to keep hidden from the world and this unfolding event lies in some lagoon seems to be sleepy off the coast of Japans. At last, the truth of the COVE unfolded to the fore in a take action of clandestine cinematography that transforms a documentary into a fascinating action-adventure thriller which in turn pounds heart to call for help from the worlds oceans. The movie begins in Taiji, Japan, and this is where former dolphin trainer Ric OBarry comes out boldly to set things straight after such a strenuous search for redemption. In 1960s 5 dolphins were captured and trained by OBarry who in the international television sensation Flipper played the title character. His slam affiliation with those dolphins led him to a deep-seated change of heart. A inconsolable Barry One day came to comprehend that these deeply susceptible, extremely intelligent and self-aware creatures so wonderfully who also have rights to life in the open ocean must be rescued and never again should they be subjected to human captivity. This being the mission that brought him to Taiji, Japan a town that appears to be dedicated to the wonders and mysteries of the lustrous, playful whales and dolphins that enjoys waters off their coast. But in a hidden remote, shimmering cove, bordered by barbed wire which is hard for people to see lies a tinted reality. In this place, the so called under cover of night, where the fishermen of Taiji, motivated by an deceitful mercury market-dolphin meat that has been tainted and the so called dolphin entertainment industry engage in an unseen hunt. What they do is of chilling nature and of dare consequences hence so dangerous to human health. Halting anyone from seeing it is their major mission which they will go to greater lengths to achieve. Determined OBarry in collaboration with Louis Psihoyos and the Ocean Preservation Society then joined forces to deal with the real issues that has been ongoing and why the cove issue has been a thorn on everyone's flesh in the entire world. With the local Chief of Police breathing so hard on their neck and strong-arm fishermen hot on their trails, they had to recruit an Oceans Eleven-style team of submarine sound and camera experts, particular effects artists, nautical explorers, adrenaline junkies and world-class divers who were to carry out an undercover operation to photograph or do the coverage of the off-limits cove, while they still playing a cat and mouse game with those who would have them behind bars. The end result comes as a confrontational mix of exploratory journalism mixed with eco-adventure and eye-catching imagery that coils down to an imperative plea for hope. The director of the COVE is Louie Psihoyos and Paula DuPre Pesmen and Fisher Stevens being the producers. The film is then written by Mark Monroe with Jim Clark as the executive producer and the co-producer as Olivia Ahnemann.

Since 2000, researchers from Japanese that is the likes of Tetsuya Endo, who is a professor at the University of Health sciance of Hokkaido, did detected high concentrations of mercury in the whale and dolphin meat sold in Japan, which has imposed a threat. In their studies Taiji residents who consume whale and Dolphin had a very high levels of mercury in their hair (Johnston, Eric 2009)it was revealed that commonly consumed Whales meat in these town is contaminated with mercury as its evident that residents have far above the ground level of mercury in their hair that is 10 times as compared to average Japanese citizens. Japanese weekly journal AERA, in June 2008, revealed that the whale and dolphin meat sold and consumed in Taiji contained a level some of mercury around 160 times above the normal one and this was as a result of the sampling done on 8 men and women whose result had higher mercury levels around 40 times higher, this was based on a National Institute for Minamata Disease (NIMD) research. To avoid misrepresentation of the research result the NIMD explained it in details and later the full data of the research was published online. The report highlighted out that the quantity of methyl mercury which causes neurological harm, was not extremely high, and that the mercury in hair showed speedy diminish given that tests carried out by other institutions on the same people a few months later. They further offered to assist monitoring the health of Taiji residents ( Nimd.go.jp 2008 )by checking close to 1,000 Taiji residents since the previous year, and no sign of Minamata disease was reported.

Two councilmen from Taiji whose interview had been in print in the Japan Times in 2007, came in the Cove to elucidate out the hazard of including dolphin meat in the school lunch program, which come about for the fears imposed by the mercury poisoning, which predominantly has a detrimental effect to both children and expectant women. The program in Taiji got a donation of a 150kg of dolphin meat from local fishers and the whale meat from the Atlantic research whaling which they used in the research. Tainted dolphin meet serving was No more in school not even after. However, the councilmen carried on to support the activity, and one of them was quoted saying how annoying it was to be used in such a movie which intends to stop the same activity they support.There was hair samples from 1,137 residents which were in turn tested for mercury to establish if they had Minimata Disease, and the average amount of methyl mercury positive in the hair samples was around 11.0 parts per million for men while for women was 6.63 ppm respectively compared to the tests conducted in other 14 locations in Japan which had an average of 2.47 ppm for men and 1.64 ppm for women. The test was done by the National Institute. 182 Taiji residents whose level of mercury were extremely high undertook supplementary medical testing to perfect the symptoms of mercury poisoning test and none of the them however, displayed any of the established symptoms of mercury poisoning, according to institution

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