You Might As Well Do It Alone

          To get my thoughts going I ate a few buffalo wing flavored chips, a snack pack pudding, and a few goldfish. I think I am ready. Media; something we all enjoy. We watch movies, listen to music, and read books. Another type of media is the one that tells stories about our favorite stars, we get the news, and there is media that covers up.
          I have never thought myself as an activist. I still don’t think I am an activist at all. But there are things in this world that really irritate me. Miss T wrote about the TV show Jersey Shore and dumb it is. Here is the thing that gets me about this; why are we polluting our minds with trash like that? I guess it can be fun to watch just so you can see how dumb people are. But let me tell you what I really find enjoyable to watch; Life, the show about different animals in the world. Or Planet Earth, now I don’t get all the way into things where I watch documentaries about animals on KBYU every night. But I think life is a lot more interesting when we know about what goes on around us.
          Recently I have been thinking about documentaries, mostly because the best comedies on TV right now are mock-umentaries. I have been considering watching many different documentaries; my only problem is where to start. I wracked my brain trying to think about any that I have heard of, when I thought of one I heard about while living in California. I did not know the name, all I knew is that it earned lots of awards, and it got you thinking. I didn’t even know where to start looking for it. So I kind of put it off to the side. Then a few months ago my friend Allysann told me about a movie she saw called The Cove, she was disturbed. It all sounded familiar; I looked it up and it was the one I was looking for.

          Here is the difference between me watching documentaries and Allysann watching them. I think about them, I research details if I need more questions answered, and I feel educated. Allysann is the activist type where if it the movie really gets to her she will promote it and do everything in her power to change what is wrong. Luckily she is not crazy enough to hurt anyone, she might march but only if it all follows the laws. One of the many reasons I love her.
          I ordered The Cove off amazon; I got it this week and finally had time to watch it today. It was a different kind of movie I had ever seen. Not only did it make me want to change, but it made me want to make sure everyone around me changes too. Hence the reason I am writing this post. As I sit here casually snacking on fish shaped cheddar crackers, there are hundreds of dolphins being slayed in Japan. I have thought about what I can do here in the United States, and I expect there is not much for me to do. Luckily there is the internet.

          I recommend everyone to watch The Cove so they can see for themselves how killing dolphins for their meat is not only toxic to us and the environment, but it is a massacre. These animals have been proven to show intelligence that could surpass ours. While we spend billions of dollars exploring life outside this planet, we could just study life here. I know we each can recall a story we have heard about a dolphin saving a person’s life. From what I have studied there are ancient civilizations that protected dolphins because of this. If a person was to harm a dolphin they were sentenced to death. What other animal on the planet could you rely on if in trouble? Let me rephrase that, what other WILD animal on the planet could you rely on if in trouble?
          I understand that animals are killed for food. I understand that animals are even killed to make sure they do not over-populate. But the way things are done in this movie shows that not all animals are to be killed for food, or even to thin out the population. These are killed because of an easy and cheap way to feed a nation.
          Everyone needs to see this documentary. Then they need to do their part; www.takepart.com/thecove

Dr.K

(Song: Can’t Take It, Artist: All American Rejects)