I don’t think I will ever forget these two syllables. The Cove did a tremendous job documenting the dolphin slaughter each year in this little Japanese town. Go see The Cove. Then do something.

The point goes deeper, however, because the question soon turns to who else are we slaughtering and where is the line of justification? What do we do about cows? Chicken? Fish? How “humane” does killing need to be perceived by killers and non-killers to justify the slaughter of other beings (animals, as many call them).  Words like “harvest” hide the fact that we do not in fact have any right to capture and kill, or raise and kill, other beings for our food. Follow this thinking and it’s not far before finding the common ground that all beings must be free for us to be fully human.  To paraphrase a brilliant point, “if slaughterhouses had glass walls, there would be no slaughterhouses.”

I’ll leave this with the caveat that there are, in my mind even, alternatives, though I won’t get into that now.