Documentary "The Cove" exposing dolphin slaughter up for Oscar

[dale]

A win for them might help the dolphins...
here's the trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm
(and my cousin Paula produced it)

[valhalla]

Ok, and I'm friends with Olivia's M-I-L and knew her hubby when he was a youngster.

[dale]

Ok, and I'm friends with Olivia's M-I-L and knew her hubby when he was a youngster.

sorry - I'm clueless...I really am. Who's Olivia? Did she work on the dolphin film?

[jeanne]

i hope the Cove wins only to help people pressure the Japanese government to stop the slaughter.  I saw an interview with the man who worked on this (he trained Flipper and later was sad to see that dolphins were captured from the wild.  He then has worked to keep them in the wild and safe).  He showed clips of the movie- where the water is red with their blood after they are trapped and slaughtered.  They are beautiful, intelligent creatures and to see this is heartbreaking

[gayle]

A win for them might help the dolphins...
here's the trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm
(and my cousin Paula produced it)

Congratulations to Paula on winnning an Oscar.  Several billion people saw the clips tonight.  That is getting the message out.  I have known about that cove for several years so am personally delighted that the killings have been exposed.

[jeanne]

A win for them might help the dolphins...
here's the trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm
(and my cousin Paula produced it)

Dale, congratulate your cousin.  I was so thrilled to see that this won. 

[valhalla]

Ok, and I'm friends with Olivia's M-I-L and knew her hubby when he was a youngster.

sorry - I'm clueless...I really am. Who's Olivia? Did she work on the dolphin film?

She did and I am equally clueless, as I never remember any "titles" of people associated with films.  Heck!  I didn't even realize that they were doing the awards on Sunday.  Haven't been to a movie in over 20 years....

[valhalla]

Dale - Olivia Ahnemann was Co-Producer and MIL is over the moon this morning with the OSCAR Win.  Congrats to you cousin, too 

[Paul Hamilton]

Dale,

Congradulations to your cousin!  It's an important message, and the trailer was wonderful.

Paul

[gayle]

03-09) 04:00 PST Santa Monica -- It is sport among black-belt sushi eaters to see just how daring one's palate can be. But even among the squid-chomping, roe-eating and uni-nibbling fans, whale is almost unheard of on the plate. It also happens to be illegal.

Yet with video cameras and tiny microphones, the team behind Sunday's Oscar-winning documentary film "The Cove" has orchestrated a Hollywood-meets-Greenpeace-style covert operation to ferret out what the authorities say is illegal whale meat at one of Santa Monica' most highly regarded sushi destinations.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/09/MN881CCT9F.DTL#ixzz0hjyR9MJe

As reported in today's San Franclsco Chronicle

Gayle

[dale]

Thanks, Gayle.

[Donna]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Federal prosecutors have filed charges against the owner of a California restaurant and its sushi chef that marine mammal activists say served illegal whale meat.

Typhoon Restaurant Inc., which owns The Hump restaurant in Santa Monica, and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, a 45-year-old Culver City resident, were charged Wednesday with illegally selling an endangered species product, a misdemeanor.

Two undercover diners requested whale as part of an $600 omakase (oh-mah-KAH'-say) or chef's choice, meal. The young women were working with the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove," to record the whole meal.

They pocketed a sample, and genetic testing confirmed that it was meat from the endangered Sei whale.

If convicted, Yamamoto could face a year in prison and a fine of $100,000. The company could be fined $200,000.

[valhalla]

Although not endangered, the size of and numbers of Blue Marlin are down (Black Marlin, too).  I always wanted to go Marlin fishing to land one of these monsters (now under 1,000 pounds instead of 1,800 or bigger), take some pictures, and RELEASE the beasts.  Sadly, they magnificent fish are delicacies in Japan and many end up flying on ice to the Far East for dinner.  This isn't against the law, but it doesn't sit well with me. 

[valhalla]

We switched on Huckabee last night, caught the end of the Rove interview and as I was getting ready to do kitchen clean-up, saw "actor from the Cove".  Ok, plopped my butt back down and got a very real understanding of the herding and slaughter of the dolphins.  Between looking for Flipper/Cathy and the bloody slaughter, I'm not very comfortable about seeing dolphin shows again nor swimming with them at Discovery Cove.  Ok, only about 20 fisherman do the killing and it has been going on for about 400 years during the migration (for food), but it is the trainers who "sort" through the dolphins looking for the "right" ones that are perpetuating this slaughter.  150K for a Flipper and about 500.00 for food.  I get fishing and hunting for food, but this is literally shooting fish (mamales) in a barrel.

[Donna]

We switched on Huckabee last night, caught the end of the Rove interview and as I was getting ready to do kitchen clean-up, saw "actor from the Cove".  Ok, plopped my butt back down and got a very real understanding of the herding and slaughter of the dolphins.  Between looking for Flipper/Cathy and the bloody slaughter, I'm not very comfortable about seeing dolphin shows again nor swimming with them at Discovery Cove.  Ok, only about 20 fisherman do the killing and it has been going on for about 400 years during the migration (for food), but it is the trainers who "sort" through the dolphins looking for the "right" ones that are perpetuating this slaughter.  150K for a Flipper and about 500.00 for food.  I get fishing and hunting for food, but this is literally shooting fish (mamales) in a barrel.

I caught that on Huckabee last night also. OMG, I cried myself to sleep. I felt so sick after watching and hearing these poor dolphins scream as they are being attacked. Awful. The slaughter ends this month but will start back up on Sept 1st. They need at least 1000 journalist there in Sept to get the word out. Most of the Japanese don't even know this is going on. I hope this ends soon as these poor Dolphins don't deserve this. I could never watch the full version, what I saw last night was enough and I'm very weak when it comes to KILLING anything but Kudos to the film makers for getting the word out.