The Cove wins an Oscar !!!!

haffajappa

brandon10 wrote:

Tell me something. Are you the fool that would debate a book in English class without having read it??

Watch the fucking movie before you comment in a thread about it otherwise you look like a complete idiot. Like your post equating them to salmon. That's one of the main points in the movie, we don't eat dolphin. These are senseless killings of a VERY intelligent animal.

Watch the movie. You may actually learn something.

not only that, but they are canning it and passing it as other types of meat. The Japanese people don't even know about it...

brandon10

haffajappa wrote:

brandon10 wrote:

Tell me something. Are you the fool that would debate a book in English class without having read it??

Watch the fucking movie before you comment in a thread about it otherwise you look like a complete idiot. Like your post equating them to salmon. That's one of the main points in the movie, we don't eat dolphin. These are senseless killings of a VERY intelligent animal.

Watch the movie. You may actually learn something.

not only that, but they are canning it and passing it as other types of meat. The Japanese people don't even know about it...

I know.....and there was so much more in the film than just the slaughter of dolphins. Mercury levels in the large fish were scary. And some of the stuff in the film that showed how intelligent dolpins are. I also liked how they showed the corruption throughout those lower levels of Japanese government and that oceanic organization. Very good film.

polaris_x

wow ... someone equated the slaughter in taiji to salmon!?? ... what's there to say really?

gimmesometruth27

Mar 11, 6:39 AM EST


Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... TE=DEFAULT

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.

Typhoon Restaurant Inc., which owns The Hump restaurant, and sushi chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, were charged with illegally selling an endangered species product, a misdemeanor.

According to a search warrant, marine mammal activists were served whale during three separate visits to the restaurant. Federal labs confirmed the meat came from a Sei whale, an endangered species protected by international treaties, documents said.

Agents also seized some suspected whale meat during a search of the restaurant Friday but are awaiting test results to confirm it was Sei whale, U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozak said.

In October, two activists posing as customers went to The Hump and ordered "omakase," which means they let the chef choose the choicest fresh fish. They also requested whale and pocketed a sample.

The young women worked with Louie Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," to record the meal with a hidden camera and microphone.

"These are endangered animals being cut up for dinner," Psihoyos said. "It's an abuse of science."

Psihoyos took their findings to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which started an investigation.

Activists claim the whale meat came from Japan's scientific whaling program and was illegally exported, but the U.S. attorney's office is still investigating the source of the meat.

Japan kills hundreds of whales in Antarctic waters each year under its research whaling program, which has triggered violent protests by conservationists and caused strong objections by diplomats in recent years.

An attorney for Typhoon, Gary Lincenberg, said the restaurant accepts responsibility for serving whale and will agree to pay a fine. If convicted, the company could be fined up to $200,000.

Court records say agents interviewed Yamamoto, a Culver City resident and a chef at The Hump for the past seven years, and he admitted serving whale to two young women.

Yamamoto's attorney, Mark Byrne, declined to comment on the charges, saying he hadn't had time to review them. If convicted, Yamamoto could face a year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.

During the October restaurant visit, animal rights activist Crystal Galbraith, 27, and a friend who spoke fluent Japanese racked up a bill of $600, feasting on increasingly exotic dishes to gain the confidence of the waiters and chef.

"It was heartbreaking to eat an endangered animal, but I knew that I was doing it to save" the whales, said Galbraith, a vegan. "We were there eating for four hours. I felt so full and sick."

The waitress brought out a dish of whale sushi, identifying the whale in English and Japanese, court documents said. The dish was listed as whale on the check and cost $85.

The team sent samples to Scott Baker, a professor and cetacean specialist at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute, for genetic testing. The results showed the meat was from a Sei whale, court records said.

The Sei whale is a baleen whale found throughout the world's oceans, and known for its graceful and quick swimming and its long, low vocalizations, Baker said. Fully grown, the mammal is longer than a bus.

Eating Sei whale meat is common in Japan, Korea and Norway and among native peoples in Alaska and Canada, but it is illegal to export the meat because of the Sei whale's endangered status.

In late February, when Psihoyos and the rest of his team were in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, Galbraith and another friend returned to The Hump twice more.

This time, agents from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sat at the bar and watched Yamamoto at work, court records said. During the third visit, another agent watched the chef go to his car and retrieve a package wrapped in clear plastic.

Shawshank

This movie was amazing. I believe it earned it's Oscar, and then some. I'm not in favor of the senseless killing of anything, whether I find them cute or not. What is shown in this film is the absolute butchery of a species at a level I had never seen before. I find it ironic that now the real money with Dolphins is in selling them to places like Sea World. So the one city that slaughtered all of their Dolphin now have to import them in order to have anything to sell.

darthvedder81

So it's OK to kill something as long as you eat it? And what does "intelligence" have to do with anything? The smarter something is the less reason we have to murder it? Environmentalists have such a weird moral framework.

brandon10

darthvedder81 wrote:

So it's OK to kill something as long as you eat it? And what does "intelligence" have to do with anything? The smarter something is the less reason we have to murder it? Environmentalists have such a weird moral framework.

You should really watch the movie. I'm not even mad at your lack of understanding in these posts. I'm just embarrassed for you. :oops:

What would happen if you were to round up thousands of german shepards and slaughter them with swords? How do you think the public would feel about you? Not environmentalists, the general public?

haffajappa

brandon10 wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

So it's OK to kill something as long as you eat it? And what does "intelligence" have to do with anything? The smarter something is the less reason we have to murder it? Environmentalists have such a weird moral framework.

You should really watch the movie. I'm not even mad at your lack of understanding in these posts. I'm just embarrassed for you. :oops:

What would happen if you were to round up thousands of german shepards and slaughter them with swords? How do you think the public would feel about you? Not environmentalists, the general public?

and then wrapped them up and sold it as pork to the general public

Pepe Silvia

kinda off topic but has anyone seen the movie the year of the dog?

darthvedder81

brandon10 wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

So it's OK to kill something as long as you eat it? And what does "intelligence" have to do with anything? The smarter something is the less reason we have to murder it? Environmentalists have such a weird moral framework.

You should really watch the movie. I'm not even mad at your lack of understanding in these posts. I'm just embarrassed for you. :oops:

What would happen if you were to round up thousands of german shepards and slaughter them with swords? How do you think the public would feel about you? Not environmentalists, the general public?

I would never condone such a thing but you have to admit rounding up thousands of german shepherds and hacking them with swords sounds kind of badass. Like maybe they are Nazi German shepherds ala Wolfenstein? Would that make it OK?

It would make a pretty kick ass 80's metal album cover too!

Pepe Silvia

darthvedder81 wrote:

brandon10 wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

So it's OK to kill something as long as you eat it? And what does "intelligence" have to do with anything? The smarter something is the less reason we have to murder it? Environmentalists have such a weird moral framework.

You should really watch the movie. I'm not even mad at your lack of understanding in these posts. I'm just embarrassed for you. :oops:

What would happen if you were to round up thousands of german shepards and slaughter them with swords? How do you think the public would feel about you? Not environmentalists, the general public?

I would never condone such a thing but you have to admit rounding up thousands of german shepherds and hacking them with swords sounds kind of badass. Like maybe they are Nazi German shepherds ala Wolfenstein? Would that make it OK?

It would make a pretty kick ass 80's metal album cover too!

uh, no, actually it sounds quite the opposite of badass :(

darthvedder81

uh, no, actually it sounds quite the opposite of badass :(

The opposite of bad is good but what's the opposite of "ass"?

What if in addition to being Nazi German shepherds the dogs are wearing "Palin 2012" doggy t-shirts? Can we kill them then?

haffajappa

darthvedder81 wrote:

uh, no, actually it sounds quite the opposite of badass :(

The opposite of bad is good but what's the opposite of "ass"?

What if in addition to being Nazi German shepherds the dogs are wearing "Palin 2012" doggy t-shirts? Can we kill them then?

don't know the opposite but you might be the synonym...

darthvedder81

haffajappa wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

uh, no, actually it sounds quite the opposite of badass :(

The opposite of bad is good but what's the opposite of "ass"?

What if in addition to being Nazi German shepherds the dogs are wearing "Palin 2012" doggy t-shirts? Can we kill them then?

don't know the opposite but you might be the synonym...

What I love about Pearl Jam fans is how we never call each other names. Eddie would be proud!

haffajappa

darthvedder81 wrote:

haffajappa wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

The opposite of bad is good but what's the opposite of "ass"?

What if in addition to being Nazi German shepherds the dogs are wearing "Palin 2012" doggy t-shirts? Can we kill them then?

don't know the opposite but you might be the synonym...

What I love about Pearl Jam fans is how we never call each other names. Eddie would be proud!

Eddies a vegetarian
and at least I didn't say you sounded like you tasted like a popsicle thats been stuck up someones ass...

darthvedder81

And for that I thank you HaffaJappa!

Now, back to the issue at hand.

German shepherds who are Nazis and wearing Palin 2012 t-shirts. Let's say they are zombies too, so technically they are already dead. Can we machete them then?

gimmesometruth27

darthvedder81 wrote:

And for that I thank you HaffaJappa!

Now, back to the issue at hand.

German shepherds who are Nazis and wearing Palin 2012 t-shirts. Let's say they are zombies too, so technically they are already dead. Can we machete them then?

if you are not going to contribute in a constructive way, please make your own thread instead of destroying and making a mockery of this one. some of us take this issue seriously...

brandon10

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

darthvedder81 wrote:

And for that I thank you HaffaJappa!

Now, back to the issue at hand.

German shepherds who are Nazis and wearing Palin 2012 t-shirts. Let's say they are zombies too, so technically they are already dead. Can we machete them then?

if you are not going to contribute in a constructive way, please make your own thread instead of destroying and making a mockery of this one. some of us take this issue seriously...

It's pretty obvious he realized he was way over his head in this thread. So instead of watching the film and coming back to post anything constructive, he starts acting like a five year old that won't get his way.

brandon10

Seriously, how would the American people feel if we were to kill thousands of dogs and secretly pass them off as pork?