Sustainable Living Hong Kong

“The Cove”, a documentary on the annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji, has won the Oscar for best documentary.

Every year dolphins are corralled into a bay and slaughtered in the town, but Taiji mayor Kazutaka Sangen protested at the film being awarded the Oscar, arguing that the hunt was legal in Japan and part of its traditional culture.

It’s amazing how “traditional culture” is always invoked when people seek to defend inhumane practices. They never seem to remember that human sacrifices were also part of many traditional cultures but are no longer practised, for obvious reasons.