'The Cove' Director Louie Psihoyos Spearheads Anti-Whaling Protest (VIDEO)

This week in Korea, 'The Cove' director and dolphin watchdog Louie Psihoyos is speaking out for the whales as well. The Oscar-winning director staged an anti-whaling protest in front of the Japanese embassy in South Korea, Reuters reported.

"These animals are slaughtered in the most inhumane way imaginable, Psihoyos told Reuters. "And then they're cut up into pieces and, even though their meat's toxic, fed to schoolchildren."

While eating whale is not commonplace in Japan, many Japanese are indifferent to the fact that whale hunting is cruel, Reuters reported.

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Comments

[melton244]

01:27 AM on 03/24/2010

The Cove was brilliant. Thank you for bringing us this informatio­n in such an important film/Docum­entary.

[RefreshingTaste]

12:27 PM on 03/22/2010

I find it odd that the Japanese who seem a very educated, technologi­cally advanced society and have high standards for their own personal reputation­s and honor, have such very low regard for earths creatures, even the rare and endangered ones.

[melton244]

01:28 AM on 03/24/2010

Just like American does bad things, Japan does too, all for the $$$$$$$$$$­$$

[yesyesyes]

06:50 PM on 03/20/2010

whaling stops a beating heart

[Das Hirschenhofer 11]

03:36 PM on 03/20/2010

Oh, and by the way..leave the whales alone....I­t's just wrong to kill intelligen­t creatures. More like murder. Whaling sucks!...n­o matter whose doing it.!

[wdw505]

04:42 PM on 03/20/2010

then don't stop a whale's life......­....

[Das Hirschenhofer 11]

01:42 AM on 03/21/2010

Uhh....wha­t?

[James I Kirkland]

11:42 AM on 03/20/2010

Louis is fighting the good fight. There is no good reason for this to continue.

[ThomasPaine1776]

11:17 AM on 03/20/2010

Attaboy Louie. I showed your movie to my high school history class. They were moved by it. Hopefully its that "rock in the pond" kind of thing.

They ask me questions, and I tell them that I'm vegan, and that I eat NO fish at all, and that no one shoud, that were de-fishing the entire ocean very rapidly.

I hope you become vegan and you make veganism part of your message. Its the only solution to saving the earth.

[DBtv]

08:14 PM on 03/21/2010

Fanned for veganism. I am one as well.

Were the entirety of the human race to become vegan we would solve world hunger and end most disease immediatel­y.

Not to mention the incredible positive karmic shift.

[sadwolf1]

10:37 PM on 03/19/2010

Louie is a Hero , oh and Japan you suck.

[DBtv]

04:28 PM on 03/19/2010

Japan sucks.

[TokyoStormWarning]

01:31 PM on 03/20/2010

I live in Japan, and you are wrong it does not suck. If you asked Ric O'Barry whether Japan sucked, he would tell you that it doesn't . You really are taking the wrong message from this movie.

There are two sides to this story. I've tried to provide a balanced view here: http://www­.squidoo.c­om/the-cov­e

[Das Hirschenhofer 11]

03:33 PM on 03/20/2010

I am in agreement with you to a certain extent. As an American..­.I find All of us are commonly believed to be 100% behind what our corporatio­ns and Government do. Obviously this is a polluted vision of both societies. I lived in Okinawa for five years, and I loved the people and the Island. I can not help but point out that numerous Buddhist monks would not support the violent killing of any creature. Nor do I believe that all Japanese are for this type of behavior.

[Debbie338]

11:54 AM on 03/21/2010

A balanced view? You mean a weary attempt to justify whaling?