Hello brethren,
When I think about the word “ecological” it makes a lot of sense to me: what is logical for ecology.
But now we are going to have to go beyond logic, because it is not being exercised at a time of crisis. Nature is God, and so we need to go on a crusade to get the information we need to take action to make the change necessary for our survival as a special .. preserve and honor the nature that gives us life.
I just watched the documentary “The Cove” about the dolphin trade in Japan. Japan has one of the biggest fishing industries in the world. They have been killing whales for food, but as the whales have run out they have begun the kill dolphins.
Here is why this killing is not eco-logical:
1. We all feel pain, and we know how terrible it is to feel pain. When dolphins are killed, they are stabbed without proper aim all over their body until they bleed to a level of weakness that they can be pulled onto a boat or dragged from the back of it. The dolphins also know fear, just like we do, but still they are captured and corralled into a small cove where they wait to die. How could we inflict that kind of pain on another mammal since we fully understand what kind of torture it is?
2. There are toxic levels of mercury in a dolphins body thanks to human beings dumping waste into the ocean. So we have poisoned the animals that we are about to kill. Poisoning, trapping and torturing .. what we mammals to do to our own kind. And then what do we do .. we eat the poisoned meat! Pregnant women especially who eat the meat give birth to children with deformities and the inability to use their bodies and their senses to survive. This means more pain for these children and more resources to take care of them. Weren’t we supposed to nourish ourselves on the food we eat? The toxic meat was also given away for free to school cafeterias. So first we poison the dolphin and then we poison our own children?
3. The dolphin meat is packaged as whale meat, so the customer is not being sold what they think they are buying. We all know we must eat to survive, and therefore providing other people with food is a service. But turning profit from selling food has turned it into a disservice. The fishing industry supposedly exists to provide food to people, but they are fishing themselves out of business and losing customer trust by providing poisoned, mis-marked food to their customers. Is it logical to poison and alienate the customer if the fishing company relies on the food that they provide?
Therefore .’.
It does not do any good to humans nor to dolphins to kill them for their meat. It is not logical, and it is not good for human beings, dolphins, or the environment.
So…
What can we do?
We need to get HUNGRY .. for INFORMATION!!!
I recommend two things:
1. Learn where your food comes from. Unfortunately we cannot trust the majority food manufacturers who will always put earning money for themselves ahead of the health of the customer. (And I must say, isn’t this a huge annoyance that we cannot trust the food we eat! We all need to get together and get the information we need so food manufacturers know that we are onto them and they will have to make a change.)
2. That you all see “The Cove” as a way to start your education.
http://thecovemovie.com/
Special note on the filmmakers:
One of the most amazing aspects of the movie is the danger the film crew had to face in order to make this documentary. In order to get proof, i.e. footage – the information the needed to show the world what was really happening – the filmmakers had to be incredibly crafty when laying out their plans to film, including planning late night trips to lay out specially made cameras build into rocks and sending trained divers to place underwater microphones so we could hear the dolphins frantically communicating as they waited to be killed and were killed. Meanwhile the filmmakers were harassed by the local fisherman and their cohorts and followed continually by the local police. I was moved by their bravery.
One of the filmmakers said “Either your an activist or an in-activist”.
So let’s do all we can: Get the right information and take action!
…for the sake of the beauty and sanctity of the “nature” that is our earth, and the integrity of human nature itself.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024943/
