The American cartoon South Park is taking on the Japanese whale and dolphin hunting industry in a new episode entitled “Whale Whores” premiering on Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 p.m. on Comedy Central.
In the satirical episode, Stan and his family attempt to spend his birthday at the Denver Aquarium so they can swim with the dolphins. Things turn bloody when the Japanese attack, kill all the dolphins and ruin Stan's big day. The cartoon highlights the link between swimming with dolphins and visiting marine parks to view aquatic life and the reality of how dolphins and whales are captured and slaughtered in Japan.
The award-winning documentary The Cove recently brought global attention to the grim reality of how dolphins are captured for marine parks. Every year in Taiji, Japan thousands of dolphins are driven into a hidden area behind fences and barbed wire. Then trainers from marine parks around the world fly in and pick their favorites and pay extraordinary prices for the dolphins. The public is allowed to watch the trainers select their dolphins, but not when the remaining creatures are herded into another area and slaughtered. It is estimated that each year Japanese fishermen slaughter more than 20,000 dolphins.
Via Comedy Central
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The good news is your not alone. There are tons of lazy parents around. Just because a show has "potty language" doesn't make it bad. Hell, you think Shakespeare was massively popular with parents?
I have always thought of SP to be hilarious but somehow always take serious issues and while making a joke of it, also show how ridiculous it is and to be honest if you understand their jokes then you will see a morale in almost all of their episodes.
The ending to this episode was brilliant, it captured exactly the mentality of americans and western europeans quite brilliantly. These cultures and countries breed animals (cows,chickens,sheep etc. etc.) for the sole purpose of killing and eating them. Those animals dont even get to live in the wild, whereas countries who hunt whales do it for the food and because its a part of their culture. What is it that makes hunting sea creatures more inhumane than land creatures. There is nothing at all that does, its just ignorant people who like to rant about something and this is something they found to rant about.
Yes, some species are in danger of extinction but what people seem to be too idiotic to know is that the species that are hunted by the Japanese, Icelandic, Greenlanders, North American natives etc. are not the ones in danger of extinction, at least not the ones in the vicinity of iceland and these whales for example pose a threat to fishery hotspots because they eat all the fish and drive them away. This is the circle of life, species hunt and eat other species to keep themselves satisfied and alive, we of course need to monitor ourselves but these ridiculous cries for a stop to whaling are stupid and ignorant and have no place in a community of intelligent people so please people out there with an interest in this. Actually study and gain some knowledge before you pick up those picket signs !!
Jon
I wonder if the Jewish creator of the show, Matt Stone, would appreciate the mockery of vicitms of the Holocaust...?
Jon: What makes it inhumane? Have you ever had an explosive harpoon go off in your guts, either? Why don't you visit a slaughterhouse, if you're so self-righteous? What makes it inhumane is that it takes the whale 20 minutes of agony to die, its innards blasted with shrapnel and the whale boat dragging it backwards through the water to try and drown it. If you think that's HUMANE, tell me, are you an idiot, or just a sadist?
Gayle: Thank you.
I notice a lot of Americans enjoy ridiculing things they don't seem to understand or want to engage in. This form of infantile humor seems to allow Americans to mock things without actually having to do anything.
At the end they convince the Japanese that chickens and cows were the cause of hiroshima, unlike whale and dolphin, and the show ends with the Japanese killing chickens and cows on-mass...then a south park character ends by saying "good work stan, now the japanese are normal like us."
I mean to the hindu, it's likely terrible we slaughter cows, but they don't have sanctions based on that belief.