![]() ![]() Nemo‘s popularity caused a spike in the demand for clownfish, and, according to reports, in the year the film was released, two hundred thousand fish and other marine life were exported from the Pacific Reefs, endangering the reefs’ sustainability. Not only does it suggest that fish don’t belong in tanks, but that whole “friends not food” thing is a vegan mantra!īut here lies the rub – and another example of that disconnect we tend to experience so often. Nemo and Marlin rescue Dory – and the groupers – from their fate by telling them to “just keep swimming” downward, eventually reaching the sea bottom and breaking the net.Īt face value, the film seems to have an animal-friendly message. This point was no more apparent than late in the film when Dory gets caught in a fishing net with a school of grouper fish. These animals wanted to live, and they wanted to live free, as nature intended. From vegetarian sharks fighting hard to stick to their “Fish are friends, not food” mantra to a team of aquarium fish with an escape plan to the little girl meant to be Nemo’s new owner and her ignorance in handling fish (she shakes them to death in their plastic bags), it was hard not to put a vegan spin on things. I haven’t seen Nemo since my pre-vegan days, but as with Lincoln a few months ago, I couldn’t help but look at it through new eyes. This Disney-Pixar animated flick centers on clownfish Marlin, his son, Nemo, who’s been taken from the ocean by a dentist with an office aquarium, and regal tang Dory, who helps Marlin on his quest to find his son. ![]() (It was that or wall-to-wall Snowmageddon coverage on the local news. So I did the only thing I could do I watched Finding Nemo. They named the storm that made its way through the Northeast on Friday night Nemo.
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