Let me first give a fictitious example to illustrate the problem of this film: Hindus believe that the cow is the mount of Lord Shiva, so it is divine. Therefore, not only the Hindus treat the cow as a god, but even the Indian Constitution stipulates that no one is allowed to harm the sacred cow.
One day several Indians discovered a terrible tragedy.
In the distant United States, those respected cattle were kept in captivity like livestock. The evil Americans let the sacred cows live in a small and dirty place full of feces, and at the same time they don't feed them grass but corn. Every day, countless cows are entrusted to a slaughterhouse that is not open to the public, and then killed by various brutal and inhumane methods. This is really cruel in the eyes of Hindus, because they think that cows are human, they are as meek as dolphins, and they will help people to cultivate the land unselfishly. After living with cows for a long time, they will find that they also have feelings and can recognize them. People. Therefore, this group of Indians decided to expose this tragedy to the world.
They concealed their identities and secretly brought a large number of the most advanced photographic equipment to the vicinity of the largest slaughterhouse in the United States. They tried to find a few butchers to reason and tell them that cows are emotional, docile, cute, and human animals. But the butcher replied that there are so many cows in the world that should be eaten. To say that cattle have human nature, pigs also have human nature. Scientists have done experiments, and pigs can recognize themselves in the mirror. Is it because of this reason that they don’t eat pigs? The Indians do not give up. They continue to say that now your cattle are grown up eating genetically modified corn and even the meat of other animals. Their meat contains a lot of pathogenic bacteria that will damage your lives. The butcher replied that all our beef will be inspected by the FDA before leaving the factory, which will eliminate the possibility of food poisoning to the greatest extent. You don't need to worry about it.
The Indians saw that persuasion was ineffective, and they decided to use just actions to save the lovely cows. Some Indians sneaked into the slaughterhouse, deliberately causing chaos, undermining production settings, and rescuing the cattle. Unfortunately, he was caught by the butchers and beaten up, and then sent to prison. Because it is legal to kill cattle and eat beef in the United States, the deliberate destruction of slaughterhouses is just as disgusting from local residents as terrorists.
After plan A failed, the Indians continued to carry out plan B. They sneaked into the slaughterhouse and recorded all the shots of the butchers killing the cattle. At the same time, they also did not take pictures of the poor cattle panicking when faced with the threat of death. Lost, the eyes full of desire to survive. They believe that as long as it is an individual, even a hard-hearted person will be moved by seeing such a poor cow eager to survive.
Despite the great resistance, the Indians' "Sacred Cow Bay" was released globally as scheduled and won an Oscar. After watching the movie, audiences all over the world condemned the cruelty and ignorance of Americans. Everyone donated money and materials to support international sanctions against the United States, and used national power to stop the slaughter of cattle.
My story is over, the last thing I want to say is: environmental protection and ecological protection are ultimately for the benefit of people, not really for the animals to live a happy life. Although it may seem cruel to kill other animals and eat meat, this is the instinct of living creatures, and you cannot make lions and tigers vegetarian. I personally like cats, dogs and other small animals, but I have no right to restrict others from eating dog meat. If you think this behavior is unreasonable, you can use culture or science to persuade them, instead of using illegal means to destroy their life-sustaining tools and abuse them with biased information! Perhaps most Japanese fishermen are not well-educated, but they are just making a living, not because they like to kill dolphins.
And even if you take a 10,000 step back, even if the Americans are right, their actions will not produce good results. Using illegal means to destroy the livelihood tools of the locals, and using films with obvious prejudice and unfair orientation to put pressure on them will only make the fishermen angry. (It can be seen from the film that the Americans did it). If you want to convince them not to kill dolphins, you can convince them with civilization and science: 1. Prove that dolphins are harmless to fish. 2. Prove that there are too few dolphins and need to be protected. 3. Through a reliable third-party large-scale test, it proves that dolphin meat is highly toxic (instead of just buying a piece and finding a pheasant scientist to explain) 4. Use political and economic pressure to force the Japanese government to give up not killing dolphins. The fact is: After the film’s success, Japanese fishermen continued to hunt dolphins; dozens of countries (including China!) voted for Japanese whaling at the ICW conference.
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