Animal Advocates Watchdog
Mar 08, 2010
Animal protest at the Oscars: 'The Cove' is on target
Among the Oscar winners last night was "The Cove'', a movie that could have far-reaching impact for animal life, particularly dolphins.
Movies like this get little attention or promotion when the big movie companies spend fortunes promoting the popular Hollywood flicks, but this deserves a round of applause in this community. I didn't see the film that won Best Documentary but looked into it because Ric O'Barry held up a sign for dolphins -- and we know that's a no-no in front of the Academy. So I was curious. Read on.
The movie http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2009-08-06-swimming-with-dolphins_N.htm features O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer from the 1960s television series "Flipper" who helped organize the effort to chronicle the grisly dolphin hunts in Taiji, Japan.
O'Barry has appeared on various talk shows urging an end to commercial displays of marine mammals following the recent killing of a trainer by a killer whale at the SeaWorld theme park in Florida.
"When the film is seen in Japan, it will shut 'the cove' down permanently," O'Barry said in a recent interview with Reuters. This small clip in the video below is disturbing and comes with a warning from me.
By Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY
