Recently I saw the documentary "The Cove". I am no animal activist professionally nor have I done any work in this field, but yes like many other sensitive human beings, I am an animal lover to the core. A person who believes that every animal and plant deserve the same amount of freedom and respect and protection that we have or we get. I am not sure how many people love life (in every form) to this meaning.
I was broken, disgusted and hopeless after watching that documentary till the end. I have always wanted to do something fruitful of my life, help the helpless and save the vulnerable. That one documentary brought my whole understanding of science and research and development to a big question mark. Why are we doing all this, what makes sense, who is benefiting and how long do we go on like this? To most of the people I will sound emotional, illogical, ignorant, and what not, I am falling short of such words myself! I am not against scientific research if anyone thinks so, but all I want to know if there is any categorization on issues that is there in front of everyone and on issues which we don't even know how fruitful and helpful their outcome will be. A research that helps making life easier and comfortable is beneficial and acceptable to all.
To those who dont know what The Cove is all about, its a documentary movie that won several awards in the year 2009, recording live what happens in the Taiji region of Japan every year, starting from September, and continuing up to March. There is so much about this documentary that anyone can Google it and know the in and out of it. The gist is that thousands of Dolphins are caught and slaughtered, severely inhumanly everyday. Why is it done, no one has the answer. No one is allowed to see or capture this event on any kind of picture or film. When it is so strictly protected from disclosure then these fisherman know what heinous act they are performing everyday. Still they do and have been doing for I don't know how many years.
I am not bragging about just one kind of animal being killed in the world, but to this number and like a tradition which has no ending, I am not sure if any slaughtering can be compared to this one. Dolphins, to some researchers, are equally or probably more intelligent than we human beings. Well there is nothing humane about being a human being these days. On many occasions they have saved lives of swimmers who have come under life threatening circumstances in the ocean. People find them intriguing, Dolphins like being around swimmers. An animal which is so much social like us, does it never occur to those butchers to give it a second thought?
Well why it is being done and feeling sorry and miserable about it is not going to help and change anything. I am trying to find it for myself how I can bring my life and my understanding to any use. There is so much agony now that any kind of our activity seems useless. We are doing so much research on finding life on Mars! Such an irony! The life that we have here on our own planet, we are progressively destroying it, and we rejoice of finding extra terrestrial life!! Trillions of currency is being put on to find life on other planets, do we even think what if there is anything which does not want to be found! We have our own one big planet to look after, what about that? All the major wild life protection organizations are working through donations! (The government has money for Mars but not for Earth!!) It only makes me shameful and laugh on our disgraceful development. Who is the person who can decide what should be given more importance to? Things that we know there is or things that we don't know there is? It fills me with despair to see how ruthlessly we are enjoying our stay at this planet and amongst other living beings and treating everything around us as something of our use or entertainment or food or pest.
I am no longer afraid of any cataclysmic event, in fact I am hopeful that it might be the only answer to the type of life sort deserving this planet, given to the current scenario what we have made, we definitely don't.
