Richard's actions were not directed against Japan.
He is active in Florida, Norway, and Iceland, and has even been arrested and imprisoned many times for this. Almost every year, he spends a period of time in a detention center.
"A dolphin placed in the right place can help them make a million dollars a year. If you interfere, they will break your hand."
"My colleagues, Jane Tipson and Jenny May, all died because of this. At that time, we went on a hunger strike to stop the trade of dolphins in Norway. On the tenth day, I fainted and ended up in the hospital. Then Jenny died.
They became their target, followed her to the beach and strangled Jenny to death with her belt."
"Oh my God."
Mu Jialun was speechless, but was in awe of the old man in front of him.
As in the previous street interview, in Richard's opinion, Japan's slaughter of dolphins is just an act of a few small towns and the government.
Japan does not always treat wild animals this way. Its area is much smaller than Sichuan, but there are 800,000 wild boars, more than 4 million deer, 30,000 bears, and 150,000 large mammals alone.
Monkey, the numbers may be unbelievable, but they are true.
Bi Fang explained to Mu Galen: "There are only 20,000 black bears in the whole of China, but in the island country of Japan, there are more than 30,000, so many that they need human control. Therefore, there are many deeper reasons for the slaughter of dolphins in Japan."
reason."
There are so many black bears that killing a hundred may not be enough.
The eating habits of the Japanese are somewhat different from those in major developed countries. Most of the other developed countries are continental countries, and the central country also has large pastures. The meat in these countries is mostly based on cattle, pigs and other livestock.
Since Japan is a small country with many volcanoes, it is an inevitable choice to seek food from the sea.
Even though the economy later developed and imported meat increased, the proportion of fish was much lower than before modern times, but it still occupied a more important position in the Japanese diet than other countries.
Under such an environment, the Japanese themselves have different ideas from most people about the behavior of catching sea fish and sea animals.
If you want to catch fish, there are fishermen. The Japanese and the dolphins are just like the hunters and the wolves.
It's even a little different. In the past, hunters killed wolves to protect deer. Now, what are the Japanese killing dolphins to protect?
To protect the sea that they themselves have emptied out for fishing?
Is it unethical to say that I killed all the deer myself, and then turned around and killed the wolves, saying that the wolves killed all the deer, so I have to control the number of wolves?
Richard felt that the Japanese did not realize this, and were like a child who broke a vase but refused to admit that it was his cat who broke it.
"Some people say that if you eat beef and mutton, you have no right to accuse of killing dolphins or other animals. This is wrong. After all, livestock and wild animals are different."
"Humans breed livestock, use feed to form contracts with them, and collect their meat, even to the point where it can be seen that one pound of meat is equal to several pounds of feed. This is a plantation-style exchange of equal value."
"But wild animals don't owe you anything. There are always animals that are not suitable for eating due to various reasons such as population size. Human beings now have the responsibility to actively maintain ecological balance because human abilities have evolved too much in the past hundred years.
Soon."
Driving into the mountains along the winding road, I shot something and pulled it back.
Wild animals can no longer protect themselves by relying on high mountains and dense forests.
The same is true at sea. If you read the novel "Moby-Dick", you will know that in the past, catching a whale meant risking one's life. It was a hymn to human hunting, a proof of courage, and a game between creatures.
This is the real normal hunting relationship in the food chain.
Now you can easily catch up with a big ship, kill it with one shot, and lift it up with a crane. Not to mention disemboweling it, if necessary, you can install a production line in the ship to directly make cans.
The Faroe Islands, as Denmark's largest fishing ground, live a comfortable life with a per capita income of 70,000 U.S. dollars by relying on herring, mackerel and other commercially caught fish.
But even so, the local people still have not given up the tradition of hunting whales. They use it as a gimmick to train young people to be courageous and carry out activities of killing whales and dolphins. They do not eat the meat from the massacre, but rather throw it into the trash can.
Almost every year there are news reports condemning it. The year before last, because whaling caused too much noise, more dolphins were killed in retaliation...
It is said to be retaliatory because they have a criminal record. In 2012, due to dissatisfaction with the EU's mackerel fishing quota, Iceland and the Faroe Islands ignored the advice of ICES and increased the mackerel fishing quota from 630,000 tons to
800,000 tons.
The same situation happened this time. In previous years, the number of dolphins slaughtered was around a few hundred, but this year it suddenly jumped to 1,428 dolphins. A large number of dolphins that could not be eaten in time were thrown into the trash can for no reason.
If humans allowed themselves to eat whatever they wanted, it would be easy to kill all species.
In the past, it was enough to eat as long as there was food to eat. Now that the average annual income of the Japanese is 40,000 U.S. dollars, they want to get it all from cetaceans, which is too much.
Changes in food ethics are a long-term process, and some foods that we previously took for granted will gradually be removed from our diets.
Foods that are not prohibited by law can be chosen based on personal understanding. It does not have to be a one-size-fits-all approach, and there is no need to force others to be consistent with you.
However, as a member of the human race, when enjoying meat filled with feed and chemicals created by polluting nature, we should be kind to nature within the scope that we think is reasonable and within our capabilities.
Valley splitting
Mu Jialun finally understood: "The first is greed, the second is unwillingness to admit mistakes, the third is destroying nature, and the fourth is bloody massacre, weird, they are quite capable."
"That's right." Richard confirmed.
"If it wasn't illegal to kill me, they would definitely do it."
Thinking of the two companions still lying in the hospital, everyone couldn't help but nod.
Richard sighed: "Perhaps everything is my fault, because the show "Dolphin Story" created this industry worth billions. The show inspired people's desire to swim with and touch dolphins.
,kiss."
"No." Bi Fang shook his head, "You are not imitating Ma Zhe. According to historical materialism, as long as dolphins are still smart and have performance value, this industry chain will appear sooner or later. The difference is just sooner or later."
The car quickly drove past the town hall, and after confirming that no one was following, it arrived at the foot of a remote barren mountain.
Mandy opened a black bag, which contained dozens of raincoats of different colors. She picked out camouflage-colored raincoats and distributed them to everyone. Taking advantage of the heavy rain and few people going out, they all went up the mountain.
The heavy rain made the road in the mountains very muddy. Jarrett almost slipped when he stepped down, but luckily he was helped by Mu Galen behind him.
"You two are too old, you should stay in the car." Mu Galen pointed at Jarrett and Richard.
Richard shook his head, how could he be absent?
Neither can Jarrett: "Our equipment is limited. I have to observe the entire bay before I can decide where to place the camera. Otherwise, I won't be able to shoot a qualified documentary."
There was more and more mud on their feet, and everyone felt that their shoes were at least twice as heavy. Mandy accidentally stepped into a quagmire, and when she pulled it out, her shoes were gone.
Bi Fang poked it with a tree stick for a long time before fishing it out.
"Oh my god, I don't want to wear them anymore." Mandy carried the muddy sneakers.
Bi Fang said: "You can go barefoot if you don't want to wear them. If you don't want to be bitten by strange insects, or be scratched by sharp stones, which will bleed out a lot of blood, and finally be invaded by germs, first the wound will start to suppurate, and then the entire sole of the foot will
It all started to swell, and eventually it became bloated, full of congestion, and finally I had to amputate the entire calf, really the thigh..."
"OK OK...please stop talking, I still want my legs."
Mandy repeatedly begged for mercy, rinsed the mud in her shoes with mineral water, put them on her feet, and continued to move forward while supporting each other.
Not long after walking, a yellow iron sign blocked everyone's way.
It says: "Be careful in case of falling rocks.", "Wild beasts are infested."
The iron sign was so big that it blocked the entire path. Next to it was a barbed wire fence that stretched all the way to the cliff next to it.
Richard smiled bitterly and said: "If it hadn't rained, there would have been fishermen patrolling the nearby mountains with knives. This is still a national park. Those fishermen told me: 'If anything happens here, we will be finished.'
They said so themselves.”
Bi Fang touched the iron thorn and walked to the cliff next to him, and then led everyone to cross the line of defense one by one.
After passing through the layers of trees, everyone could finally see a bay surrounded by mountains on three sides through the gaps in the trees.
"Is this Dolphin Bay?"
Bi Fang and Mu Jalun looked at the shallow bay at the foot of the mountain. The coastline was only a few dozen meters long, with low mountains on both sides. But on such a narrow coastline, thousands of dolphin carcasses were lying there.
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Dolphins always come to Taiji Town along their migration routes, which has not changed for thousands of years, and fishermen only need to wait for them to fall into their traps.
A dozen fishing boats lined up in a row. They put some long poles into the water with flanges on the tails, and then used hammers to hit the pole heads, which created a wall of sound.
They took advantage of dolphins' sensitivity to sound and drove hundreds of dolphins to the coast.
They were all running for their lives, escaping from the wall of sound.
After entering this bay surrounded by mountains on three sides, as long as the last exit is blocked with fishing nets, no dolphins can escape.
Every year during the dolphin season, this shallow bay turns blood red.
It is truly blood red, without any exaggeration. From the satellite view, you can even clearly see that this bay has turned into a red spot.
All dolphins not selected by the aquarium, regardless of size, will be killed.
The massacre at Dolphin Bay was a brilliant massacre, and its brilliance lay in the fact that it was a massacre that cut off inheritance.
It kills all the dolphins that are frightened and aware of the cruelty and evil of humans, so that the dolphins still naively think that humans are their friends, thus falling into the trap again and again.