Animal Slaughter Documentary Analysis

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This documentary follows a young group of activists who study the lives of dolphins, whales, porpoises, and other marine mammals. The group goes travels around the world and goes to the area’s where they are slaughtering these animals for food and other resources. The film speaks of how it’s not the fact that killing them for food is not the reason to alert the world but the sole fact in the way that they do it. These people slaughter the mammals by luring them into this certain area called “the cove”, trap them and then kill them in many inhumane ways. This is a huge problem that has now had some light shed upon it but still has a significant matters in today’s society.

To begin the story, they start with the corruption of the practices going
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They now said that the mass slaughter of the dolphins was actually pest control. They considered these creatures’ pests due to the fact that they said they were eating all of the fish for the people. The Japanese were stating that the number of fish being caught for consumption had dropped when it clearly had not. The Japanese even had fishing ports in other areas such as Dominica, where they would pay them not to fish so the government could use these numbers to back their reason for these mass killings. They would also pay off their debts and help them out in many other ways so that these small governments would join their side in the fight against the rest of the world. They were trying to create an army so that the west could not interfere with their work. This way it was not just Japan that the activists were attacking but also these smaller countries that have not done much else wrong other than accepting the subsidies given to …show more content…
He did risk his life and the life of many with him but the fact is that this cove is still operational and alive. To go further I feel like he should create a second part to the feature where it goes into the legal battles against Japan, where he goes back and gathers more information now to show that nothing has changed. Although the documentary is eye opening, it seems that not enough people have taken the time to see this. If this film was broadcasted as national news, with trailer all over, and shown in all languages around the world, there would be more action from the people. The pathos from the cove itself should create enough outrage from the people that something more would be done in efforts to help these creatures. This will be a major problem until more action is taken against the Japanese. This pandemic is one that must be

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