Louie Psihoyos, Oscar winning director of "The Cove" on the SeaWorld Tragedy

Louie Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Cove,' discusses the recent SeaWorld tragedy, and similarities between his film and 'Avatar,' with New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin at Asia Society, March 9, 2010.
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[NKWIA12]

The Cove :

The Dolphin Freaks of The War Addiction States.

戦争中毒国のイルカ異常者たち

[NKWIA12]

I am a Hindu.

A cow is a sacred living thing.

A lot of cows are killed in the U.S.

Would you stop killing them please?

[NKWIA12]

@Natheyja Honey, all you say is your wishful thinking. It's all hypothesis. Again, if you were right, tell me what kind of their behaviors show they are self-aware ???

[Natheyja]

@NKWIA12 Can't more like don't want to. Not to a person like you, you do not care about anything. The only thing you do is insult people and think you are smart. I don't want to have any kind of conversation with you because you've proven to me that it is impossible to have a real conversation with you. So stop replying to me. What you type only proves what kind of person you truly are.

[NKWIA12]

@Natheyja The result : You can not explain that whales and dolphins are self-aware .... Sorry. ((+_+))

[Natheyja]

@NKWIA12 I can see from all the rude comments you're getting that people don't like you/are not very friendly with you. I have not been rude to you or calling you names, that's what you've been doing. So maybe you outta try being friendly to people and maybe other people would actually want to talk to you rather than insult you. But whatever, however you like it, it's your business. Just don't drag it onto other people.

[Natheyja]

@NKWIA12 are my replies too complicated to get through your thick skull? You don't take anything out of what I write why on earth would I bother with your bs. I told you I'm through with you and your potty mouth.

[Natheyja]

@Trish91171 And yes, I do know the drives have been going on long before this became so public.But the dolphins are not the biggest problem,it's the Japanese people themselves,they are the biggest consumers of seafood in the world and if they focused a bit more on giving back rather than always taking dolphins would not be a problem.We're already beginning to have serious problems bec of overfishing,can't even imagine how it'll be in 100years if this keeps going. People have the power to change.

[Natheyja]

@chrysan6128 But the levels of mercury in the people of Taiji are a lot higher. And they sell the meat in Japan disguised as meat of whales, not very good now is it. Also it's really bad to compare average lifespan of people of Taiji to USA because Japanese live more healthily in every way,and people in Okinawa have the longest living people on average than anywhere else in the world. If you'd compare Taiji to rest of Japan I'm sure you would have a better comparison than a nation of obesity.

[Natheyja]

@Trish91171 There has been close ups but nothing serious. Many people get close to orcas by scuba diving, snorkling (like you can do in Norway for example), canooing and if they did want to kill humans I'm sure they would have done so by now but they haven't. And this is around the world. :P Yet in amusement parks there's been many cases of death, during the decades they've been in captivity.

[Natheyja]

@Trish91171 I don't believe it will end the drives either. It happens on so many other countries as well. But it is extremely disgusting 'tradition' that probably most of Japan doesn't even know its still continuing. It is very inhumane and that should already tell people everywhere in the world to stop doing this, same with whaling. But unfortunately humans are beasts. ;( And there hasn't been a single case where orca kills* a human in the wild, correction there from my part.

[chrysan6128]

@Natheyja According to the recent research on Taiji residents' health conditions, nobody has actual adverse mercury influences in spite of two or three times degree of mercury. Average lifespan USA 1998 Man73.8 Woman79.5 Taiji 1985～1995 woman82.9 WHAT?82.9 longevity! Why?

It is said that selenium in dolphin meat decrease the poison of mercury.