Today I watched a documentary called "The Cove". It tells the story of a small coastal island in Japan that kills 23 thousand dolphins a year. The dolphins killed are sold as "whale meat" their meat saturated with mercury. The dolphins not killed are brought to aquariums and trained to perform at shows such as "The Sea World"
You maybe already thinking that the ones kept alive to be used in shows are the lucky ones. After all they have that appearance of happiness as if they were always smiling. Wrong. Acording to marine biologists they get extremelly depressed in captivity, and are super sensitive to noise.
The person behind this documentary was the once trainer of "Flipper" Flipper's real name was Suzy, a female dolphin that acording to her former trainer commited suicide right in his arms. She took her last breath and sank to the bottom of the tank.
Is it not unspeakable that allthough everybody knows how smart and amazing these animals are, still they can be slaughtered like this? The water in the beach where they are killed turns completelly red. Thick and red like paint. You could hear their crying and see their desperation...It was nauseating and heartbreaking.
How awful! Barbaric! Sickening!
To think that God has left us in charge of the earth and all the living creatures in it, in the air, in the earth and in the seas...Like pastor Ophir said in one of his preachings. Christians should be the first ones to love and care for the planet and for everything in it, including other human beings. Why? Because we know He created. He created it all. Out of Gods giving heart and never ending creativity He created it all for the praise of His glory...
Genesis 1: 31 "Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good."
2 comments:
It's horrific to see such cruety take place. View some of the way slaughter houses operate. We surely live in a fallen world. I can think that people just don't give a care anymore. Look at what we waste. People would kill for what we throw away. Hurts me to see that people can't even recycle. It's simple to see that God made the earth one big recycle system.
Wake up America!
I did actually watch a documentary about slaughter houses...I just cant buy meat anymore. I practically grew up in a farm, surrounded by many other small and medium farms, in a little green town called "Porto Real" RJ. Animals raised for milking only, but the few that got killed for the sustaining of the household were not never misstreated and abused like that horror I watched. Besides they were raised completelly free to graze. At night an employee would gather them in barns. 4:30 am my grandfather would give them "breakfast" which was made of sliced sugar cane and wheat germ, then they were set free on the pasture to graze.
When I see meat in the supermarkets I want to puke. I have a friend that hunts dear and other animals and he used to tell me that, that if I ever seen a salughter house I would start hating beef. He was right.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it.
Julia Marassi
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