Imagine a pig. Take a moment. Now imagine a dolphin. What do you see? The dolphin – and indeed the whale – has assumed an almost sacred-like status in the West‚ while other animals such as the pig… well‚ have lost out. The Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove‚ which aired Sunday night on ABC1‚ is a masterfully crafted spy-like thriller telling the story of dolphin hunting practices in Taiji‚ Japan. The documentary shows terrible scenes of dolphins being rounded up‚ netted and then slaughtered
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Some 18-thousand dolphins’ porpoise are killed each year off Northern Japan. Permits to kill three thousand dolphins and small whales off the main island of Honshu are in effect. Most of the dolphins taken are slaughtered for meat. An increasing number are taken and shipped to oceanaria‚ mostly in Asia. The recent studies extremely high levels of contaminants such as mercury‚ cadmium and PCBs in dolphin meat has led some Japanese officials‚ concerned for the health of the citizenry‚ to an examination
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For many years‚ by many nations The Whaling Industry has been commercially profitable businesses who kill many types of whales. In the 18th‚ 19th and 20th century whaling fleets set their voyages from Europe and North America; they sourced the whales for their oil‚ whalebone for corsets‚ ambergris for perfume and meat for villages. The Japanese Whaling history goes back as far as 10‚000 B.C. when whales were driven into nets and harpooned repeatedly‚ then they would dispatch with a long sword or
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The question of whether whaling should be allowed in countries like Japan and Norway is a complex mix of cultural‚ economic‚ and political facets. To me‚ however‚ it is not a difficult question to answer. Simply put‚ while I would not disagree with the hunting of whales by the two countries if they did so sustainably and humanely‚ I think the practice has gone beyond a cultural activity‚ and therefore should not be considered for exemption under cultural reasons. A cultural activity is an activity
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Topic: Animal Protection Question: Should Australia take an aggressive stance against Japanese whalers or not? 1.0 History of Japanese whaling Japan’s first trip to the Antarctic whaling in the mid-1930s‚ began after World War II. Japan’s postwar ruins‚ the national deprivation. Under general MacArthur’s encouragement‚ the two Japanese Navy ships turned into a processing vessel‚ heading to the Southern Ocean for whaling. Japan has become rich in meat‚ imported from Australia and the United States
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The passage discusses three possible reasons for strange noises‚ name "quackers"‚ that Russian submarine sailors had reported during a period of time from the 1960s to the1980s. The author mentions three sources for these sounds‚ including nearby Orca whales vocalization trying to attract mates‚ the giant squids which live in the ocean and finally the undetectable foreign submarines. The professor‚ however‚ believes that none of these theories could justify the real source of these noises. The professor’s
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Here is the topic: Many people in Japan strongly believe that hunting dolphins has been a part of the culture‚ and non-Japanese cannot criticize their practice. Their opinion is that many Westerners eat meat‚ so they are being hypocrits for criticizing Japanese for eating another kind of meat. Do you agree with Japanese‚ or do you disagree? What are your reasons for your opinion? I strongly disagree. * Dolphins have very high mercury levels * Mercury is a known cause of birth effects
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Sea Mammal hunting is a major problem in the 21st century. The problem is most apparent in Japan. Japanese people are hunting sea mammals‚ and it is resulting in horrific effects on the sea mammal population. The organization Greenpeace has addressed this problem and they are educating people about this and trying to stop it in Japan. A major problem is sea mammal hunting in Japan. Japan recently killed 333 Minke whales‚ 103 males and 230 female. Most females were pregnant‚ and it was claimed
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1- Why are whales hunted? Whales were hunted mainly for these products: * lamp oil (from sperm oil) * margarine and cooking oil (from whale oil) * candles‚ soaps‚ cosmetics and perfumes (from sperm oil) * corsets and umbrellas (from sperm oil) * whale-meat for human consumption * animal feed (from meat meal) * fertilizer (from bone meal) * string for tennis rackets (from tendons) 2- What parts of the whale are used and for what purposes? The meat was used as food
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Jasmine Mann English 1100 Elizabeth Gooding November 26‚2013 The Truth: Mercury’s Impact on Human Health The Cove is an academy award-winning documentary; it informs the public about the increase in dolphin slaughter taking place in Taiji‚ Japan. Directed by Louie Psihoyos‚ they expose the massacre of thousands of dolphins annually. The Japanese authorities are seen to be supporting the slaughter of this species by all means. A group of volunteers conducted by animal rights activist Ric O’Barry
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