The Cove

Last Sunday the feature length documentary 'The Cove' screened on ABC1, hopefully to the effect of shocking and outraging viewers as to the inhumaine, abusive and unsustainable practices of dolphin hunting that pose to not only wipe out dolphin populations around Japan, but to endanger the human health of those who eat the mercury laced dolphin meat. 'The Cove' is in an important step to ending this foul trade, a trade that, like the rest of the whaling industry, is an absolutely senseless industry kept afloat by government subsidies and practiced most undoubtedly simply to defy the will of the international community. The film also reveals the beauty and intelligence of dolphins, a self aware species that may be just as smart as we are. If you didn't see it last Sunday I highly recommend it.