im proud to be from the faroes and thats my way to say people are stupid when they say that "Those who can kill an animal that easily can do the same to a human, easily too!!" so f*** them!!!
the pilot whales (grind) is that who saved us while we when there hunger in the faroes and 1 pilot whale (grind) is wort** 1 milion in meat and thats a lot of money for a small comunyty like we are
so we are thankful to the pilot whales for saving our islands if it werent for them we would not be here. sorry for my fails in the text but im only 13
We are saying how cruel are the people in Taiji, Japan but the fact a EU country is brutally killing these animals amazes me in a very bad way. And they try to justifie it by saying that they are not doing it for money or cause its a tradition? Is killing a tradition? Moreover u see women participating and even kids. What kind of parents let their kids to witness this massacre, this sea of blood. And what kind of a person you have to be to kill in such a horrific way a living creature.
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I'm going there and eat whales with the Faorese!!! Go Faroes, eat your whalel and enjoy it like you've been doing for 1,000 years don't worry about stupid brainwashed couch potatoes with pretend moral superiority while they're obese scratching their ass watching Kardashians and Jerry Springer eating Burger King. Maybe they can get some exercise hard work in the Grind? Oh no, they don't need any more blubber too much already. Fuck. Live & let live dammit
Centuries old cultural tradition and nosy people should mind their own fucking politically correct business and drink a nice warm cup of shut the FUCK up. These Faroese people were never overfishing or mass killing whales and blue and yellowfin tuna till they're extinct nobody even knew about this for the last thousand years till POLITICAL CORRECT ASSHOLES open their mouth about it. My advice is shut up and go protest Japanese or keep eating McDonalds morons.
OVER 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are slowly killed every year due to entanglement in commercial fishing gear, including critically endangered species. The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered pilot whales annually and use all of the meat.
HOW MANY OF YOU EAT SEAFOOD AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEATH OF 300,000 WHALES AND DOLPHINS KILLED ANNUALLY BY COMMERCIAL FISHING AND STILL CRITICIZE THE FAROESE???
i understand completely that we all tend to eat from other animals but the way these are pulled into the docks and simply slaughtered by a group of men with big knifes and ropes? im sure we could find a faster and caring way to get are resources with a quick kill? Just a question and idea.
Creatures getting their own food when opportunity arises... that is how nature is. See all the blood in the water? There is a thousand times more blood coming out of animal farms all over the US and those animals are getting beaten the crap out of but now that the green movement is on, everyone thinks that the giant farms are over so lets go pick on people who have learned how to kill animals without damaging the environment... yay!
The fact that there are people who think this is "justifiable".... shows that the human race is the worst thing that has happened to this beautiful planet.
IF the whalers went out and killed them without the use of boats, and massive hooks, and other horrible devices it be okay. Swim out and try to kill a whale with a knife and your hands. lets see how well that goes
@nickoo2nickoo2 At least they try to do it in the least painful way possible. i also don't fully understand this community. As long as this is necessary. If they only do this to keep a tradition going then that's sad
Making the argument that killing an animal through butchery is wrong is probably the most bizarre thing to say in this case. These people understand the animal, take the best precautions to insure a quick and relatively painless death and harvest, appreciate and distribute it among the community. The amount of whales killed seems a bit excessive and those numbers could be cut down, pardon the pun. That would be my only complaint.
No one should fly into a rage about this without first doing a bit of research. I was SHOCKED when I saw these images on facebook, but after looking it up a bit, I think this is actually more humane than the ways that we kill much of our livestock in America and other first-world countries. Now if you're against the killing of all animals no matter what, fine-- that's your cause. But don't rage about how cruel this is and then go eat a burger. That cow probly suffered more. It's hypocritical.
i really think she is missing the point, from what she is saying until the whales are not ENDANGERED it is ok to kill them, i think this does not make any sense at all.
Also culture importance to keep killing, what the hell, can't you find anther habit, am sure you're cutler will survive without this, so just don't try to explain you're self and cutler importance, if all cities start doing what you do you still think you can sustain this? if the answer is yes THEN i UNDERSTAND.
@michelimages2 How many cities are completely cut off from distribution routes for food and goods? How many cities are in the middle of the north Atlantic on steep rock formations?
Have you ever seen the prices for food in the faroes? It's sky high because everything has to be imported.
Culturall Importance = THAT'S HOW THEY SURVIVE! THEY LIVE OFF OF THE SEA (fish and whales) AND THE LAND (sheep)
yea c'mon.. when you see something like this, how could you even try to justify it? These aren't cows or chicken here, it's a family and you do know how intelligent they are, don't you? How could you call yourself human and not see the barbarism in this? Plus, their meat is not suitable for consumption. Nature herself has drawn the line between what we should and should not eat. How sad.. knowing how friendly whales and dolphins are to us compared to other species.
@tushaani So basically humans are not allowed to kill animals for food, but animals are allowed to kill animals for food? or is it just a particular group of animals that you "like" and think are "cute" that you don't want humans to kill?
@MykeHawke1 obviously and animal eating an animal is allowed because its called the "circle of life" but when humans get involve and butcher this many innocent whales that are killed by a completely different set of species with hands and technology to kill an animal is totally different!!!
@gummybears1339 No it isn't... just because humans are more clever than other animals and have developed advanced tools to help them doesn't mean they shouldn't use them to provide them with food.
@MykeHawke1 i suppose you think mercury poisoning is cute then. good luck to your health if you choose to be ignorant. and, you're missing the point. you can rear chicken, cow, pigs in hoards, but it takes years to attempt to "rear" whales in enclosed areas or naturally in the ocean. we're not saying it's wrong to eat animals for survival, we're saying it's wrong to damage the balance of nature. if you can't put back what you have taken, don't do it.
@notindieenough Yeh, mercury is as cute as alcohol, smoking, drugs and violence... which is through the roof in several other countries. And scientific studies have proven that the grindadráp does not damage the balance of nature of pilot whales.
@MykeHawke1 which "scientific studies" published this? it IS damaging in the long run. the exact figures of the pilot whale is unknown, and while not considered extinct presently, it does not mean they are not in danger of extinction the rate they are being hunted. stop comparing them to pigs. pigs are born in litters, one whale is produced at a time. the gestation and calving period is also much longer for whales.
@MykeHawke1 the american cetacean society states that gestation and calving period for the pilot whale is 12-15 months and every 3-5 years respectively. this compared to a pig's at 112-115 days and twice every year. so, my question is, your argument is that faroese only take a few thousand pilot whales every year, but can you replace this same amount every year? do the math, and tell me if it's sustainable.
@notindieenough Yes you can replace the same amount since there are almost a million pilot whales worldwide and the anual catch is around 900, which is 0,1% of the total population.
You say you come from Singapore? how many people live there? how are businesses doing there? How is the market? and how is the economy? And is it fair to say because your country doesn't have a lot of natural resources then countries that do shouldn't benefit from theirs?
@notindieenough They take 500 to 1,000, not a few thousand and there are 1,370,000 pilot whales in the northern oceans, so go ahead and do the math...
@MykeHawke1 BTW, i'm sorry if it sounds rude, but the sustenance argument sounds pretty lame to me. i come from singapore, a country that is way smaller than yours. the country itself is a city and land is scarce. we do not have rear animals or grow plants here. there is little natural resources here, and we import food from overseas. if you cannot afford to have beef which is considered a luxury, then replace it with something else. it's called living within your means.
@tushaani Cows and pigs have the intelligence of a 4 year old child and they live in cages for their entire lives and get slaughtered by the millions...
@tushaani You've gotta ask yourself: Is this really so much different from any other killing of any other species? I mean, the method of killing is very fast (fastest method of killing of wild mammals, both on land and in water, IWC Glasgow 1992). Sure you see a lot of blood, but did you really expect otherwise?
What does intelligence have to do with anything? Shouldn't we kill animals, because they're intelligent?
@tushaani did you know that pigs are as intelligent as a whales? Did you know that pigs, as whales and dogs and most mammals just like us live in groups (families)? Did you also know that the most harvested meat and animal product in planet earth is pork? Have you ever been to a slaughter house? Have you ever seen a pig being slaughtered? Killing an animal for consumption is ok as long as it is done in a humane way (whatever that means) and keeping in mind the survival of the species.
@tushaani you are fuckin' retarded, it's an island in a middle of nowhere, what are they suppose to eat? and they are not killing a thousands whales, just a few
it has a heart and a brain, it's just like us, It's obviously not a human but is still a living breathing being and it deserves much more respect then being butchered.
@BullsEyeBlaze What about the animals a lion kills every day? doesn't it deserve respect instead of being eaten alive? or the mother losing its baby to a lion or any other animal? what about them? or the animals that have to die to feed dogs and cats? or the animals that die so that animals in zoo can get some food? what about all those animals?
This is disgusting, how can human beings be so cruel, these anmials are just as equal as us, and should not be treated any differently then humans, how the fuck would you like it if you were trapped and being butchered, watching you family and friends die around you?
@7TKx THEY ARE NOT ENDANGERED, THERE ARE 1,370,000 PILOT WHALES IN THE NORTHERN OCEANS. DO SOME RESEARCH.
PERHAPS YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR CONCERN TOWARDS THE COMMERCIAL FISHING INDUSTRY; THEY KILL OVER 300,000 WHALES AND DOLPHINS EVERY YEAR DUE TO ENTANGLEMENT IN THEIR FISHING GEAR.
@MykeHawke1 no it shows that he feels for the living..this people is a pest.. the faster we get rid of the better -.- i ofc dont mean that but if u kill Anything like that u deserve to die urself..
@jegerover18ar Ok. Animals kill animals in a way more cruel way, then how come he doesn't shout at them and want to kill all carnivores around the world? He feels for the living right? Then he should also be mad at them... even dogs and cats are carnivore, what are they suppose to eat if people do not kill animals? plants? maybe it's okay to kill an animal to feed your dog and not the population. Also would it please you if whales were killed in cruel slaughter houses instead?
@MykeHawke1 hey im not for killing anything but yea we need to eat.. but when thats said i Dont belive taking from the wild if there is no need for it..
@jegerover18ar So are you saying they should raise animals that live in small cages until they are killed for food, rather than kill a non-endangered animal from the wild?
@ContrastNY -.-' did i say that? u can raise animals on grass fields where they have a good life.. why do all of u "supporters" think that if i dont like whaling i must love evil pig farms?
@jegerover18ar How many are there? That is the point; they are killing wild animals for food rather than animals raised in small cages in slaughter houses. "Free Range" slaughter houses represent less than 1% of all slaughter houses. It's more humane to kill a wild animal, provided it is not endanged, which the pilot whales are not, as there are 1,370,000 in the northern oceans and another 800,000 in the southern oceans.
@jegerover18ar WATCH "FROM FARM TO FRIDGE" HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HOW ANIMALS ARE TREATED IN SLAUGHTER HOUSES? IT'S A MILLION TIMES WORSE THAN THESE WHALES WHO GET TO LIVE THEIR LIFE IN THE OPEN OCEAN BEFORE THEY ARE KILLED.
This is heartbreaking and wrong, people this has to stop, these people have zero understanding of the consept of conservation, the pilot whales are soon to be extinct
@MrZapparin You could not be more wrong. There are about 1.4 million non-endangered pilot whales in the northern oceans, another 800,000 in the southern oceans, of which the Faroese kill and eat 500 to 1,000 annually.
The Inuits of Alaska kill and eat 50 to 75 bowhead whales annually, of which there are about 12,000 left.
@ContrastNY I dont agree with the killing of any threatened Species but you have got to be joking if you think you can compare the Inuits of Alaska with the Faroes. And the killing methods of both are terrible.
@Stopthegreed It's the ratio of whales killed to the population. The Alaskan's kill 50 to 75 Bowhead whales annually from a population of 8,200 to 13,500 whales. The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered, non-threatened pilot whales annually from population of 1,370,000 in the northern seas.
The Alaskan's also kill and eat Narwal Whales, Spotted Seals and Walrusses.
But, why are you focussing on the faroes when countries such as Iceland, Norway and Japan are commercially whaling?
@ContrastNY Like i said the Alaskans dont have easy access to the mainstream food as the Faroes do and the IWC sets their catch limit. And for me its not about numbers its more about the killing method and whether killing Whales is a necessity. I dont believe the Faroes would starve to death and think the hunt is more about a stupid Tradition than anything else. And i do focuss on Iceland, Norway and also Japan. And so does Sea Shepherd.
@Stopthegreed The Faroese do not have access to anything easily, food products, etc. Some of the villages such as Gásadalur did not have access to the rest of the country until a tunnel was built in 2005. The country as a whole is completely isolated from the outside world, and there are little to no distribution of imports into the Faroes.
@Eurofan2006 Ridiculous? What do you call slaughter houses? Watch From Farm to Table it's on this site.
At least the non-endangered pilot whales live a life in the open sea rather than cramped cages in a slaughter until the day they are killed. All of the pilot whale is used for food to subsidize the high cost of food in the faroes.
@Stopthegreed The Alaskan Inuits kill bowhead and nawal whales, spotted seals and walruses. And they have even killed pregnant whales, you can't tell if a whale is pregnant.
@MykeHawke1 Yer me too. Any asshole whos trying to make the world a better place is a fucking prick. We need less of every other species and more lovely butchering humans. Im proud to be part of the planets next mass Extinction. Humans are the greatest. Long live the human race. Gosh im starting to sound like those Nazis sounded huh..
@ContrastNY Wow you sound like the Japanese. Dont forget Japanese and the Faroes eat beef, lamb, chicken also. You could use that argument if they didnt but they do. And i dont agree with any slaughter houses.
@Stopthegreed You clearly haven't been to the Faroes... then you would know they have very little beef and it's considered a luxury since it's so expensive. The land is too steep to farm cows.
All of my comments are directed towards those who eat meat, support slaughter houses, but criticize the Faroese for eating non-endangered pilot whales. What has a better life; cows, pigs etc. in cramped slaughter houses for their entire lives or pilot whales who live in the sea until it's killed?
@ContrastNY We dont farm like that in NZ except maybe Chickens and pigs. Its all a disgrace. I must say tho, i have seen tons of footage of different animals being Slaughtered and the Fareos takes the cake when it comes torturing an animal to death. I myself would rather be shot in the head with a bolt gun than slashed to death with saws and knifes. But like i said i dont agree with any of it. And the fareos do promote slaughter houses if they buy meat from them also.
@Stopthegreed And remember NZ is also an island country. We use to Whale. Now everyone agrees that its something in our history we would rather forget. Its an embarrassment. Now we make millions from tourists wanting to go Whale watching. We have smartened up. I guess you may wake up one day and say this cultural thing is complete Bullshit and the fareos will see how the rest of the world views what they do. Or maybe they will just continue. Not everyone smartens up.
@Stopthegreed There are over 4 million people in NZ and less than 50.000 in Faroe Islands and NZ is like 200 times larger than the Faroes... And tbh so far you haven't had a single valid argument to stop the whaling in Faroe Islands.
Slashed to death with a saw and knife? Where do you get your information? Sea Shepherd?
Here is a little tip for you, videos that are against something, will manipulate their video/story to win you over to their cause. it's as simple as that.
@MykeHawke1 Im not arguing with you. I was stating a fact. I hate those pricks. How about Tonga. Double the population of the Faroes but have stopped Whaling and now run multi million dollar Whale watching tourism ventures. They also have to import most food stuffs. Heres a little tip for you. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I have seen so much footage from the faroes and the footage speaks for itself. And slaughtering pregnant mothers....Mongrels
@Stopthegreed A picture can say a thousand words, but a picture does not necessarily say the thruth, because it lets the viewer comes to their own conclusion.
Then what about Japan? one of the most advanced and civile countries in the world, yet they hunt whales?
@MykeHawke1 Its like the Faroes are fighting to stay in the Stone Age. Ive never seen a bigger group of RedNecks using Tradition as an excuse for their disgusting behavior.
@Stopthegreed You live on an Island that has a distribution channel for food and goods. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get food and goods into the Faroes? They just don't have the distribution which creates incredibly high prices, therefore they must subsidize their living costs...
@Stopthegreed Watch Farm to Table it's on this site. The Faroes do not have slaughter houses, the sheep roam the green mountains. In other countries cows, pigs, chickens, etc are crammed into tiny cages and hear animals being slaughtered every single day until they are killed.
The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered pilot whales annually that live in the open sea; a much quicker death than any slaughter house.
1. yes, if i want to eat meat i do kill an animal. I would do it when im hungry. Faroe's ppl dont suffer hungry but still kill it. They do it in a large scale which seriously crashes nature's balance.
2. Still a life is a life and must be respect. if i kill it to survive, it is respectable.
3. "they dont do it for cultural reasons, it happens to be part of their culture"... oh wait!
several hundred years is too much in the past, it must be changed to fit our actual state.
@parangaah What is disrespectable with it? They live their lives free and nothing gets wasted and they get a quick death, no child walks shocked away from a slaughter, and when they get older they know how it is instead of becoming old and to never have seen a slaughter before. No what is disrespectful is hiding your children away from reality only so they will become over sensitive people who have no idea where meat comes from.
@MykeHawke1 Nothing gets wasted? A quick death? These people hacking away at their spines does not qualify as a quick death, them flapping about in the shallow water does not qualify as a quick death. Sure a small part of the movement is post-mortem reflexes but most of it is the whale fighting for its life. If this was purely for a 'free meal', how come tons of whale meat is sold and exported every year. Animals are not on this planet to serve us, especially not when they're not..
@DontBotherTETRiS Firstly, the so called whale meat industry is not in Faroe Islands. Secondly, saying that in the meat industry animals die quickly only proves that you don't know what you're talking about. The truth is that the animals, f.ex. the chicken, dies a very slow and painful death before it becomes your meal and struggles throughout its entire life. Check out the video Farm to Fridge before saying the meat industry is more noble than the whale slaughter in the Faroes
@MykeHawke1 ..living in our natural habitat. Just because you have the opportunity to take advantage of a more trusting living being, does not mean that you should. Especially when it's not for survival as it once was but for a 'free meal'. There's nothing free about slaughtering these intelligent, social animals, it's an industry and a foul one at that. The domesticated meat industry at least provides a quicker death and is purely a nutritional food source. Whaling is not.
Most isolated small islands around the world have the same low murder/crime rates. We have them in the UK. It has nothing to do with how advanced morally they are. Most criminologists can explain it very simply.
I and others find it telling that you try to compare what you all do for a days entertainment for the last few hundred years to the Inuit’s.
No amount of propaganda will explain the practice away. As long as you all have a great time I suppose that’s all that matters!
@SCD4 The Alaskan Inuits are proud of their culture of whaling, so why shouldn't the Faroese?
Rather than trying to preserve the non-endangered pilot whales. Perhaps you might want to preserve the culture of the Faroese. There isn't a more peaceful place in the world, for example; there has only been 2 (two!) murders in the past 23 years. The rest of the world can learn a lot from the good people of the Faroe Islands!
what tradition used steel diesel driven boats to heard the whales in? if these savages used old canoes like their ancestors did you would understand the argument for culture this however is not!!
@MrSilverb4ck They used rowing boats, harpoons and methods that killed the whales in many cases slowly. The reason why they use these methods now is to satisfy sensitive animal lovers like you, and now you actually complain that it's not cultural anymore because they had to change their methods for YOU and the whales???.....
there are ways to kill whales faster and with less pain, but instead the faroe islanders choose to torture the whales with hooks and sticks. i don't understand how people can stand killing a animal or an other person. i get sick when i see dead animals.
@ilovelitago Yes, you are completely correct and obviously a professional in the matter which means your word is correct, you have seen it happen irl and witnessed the horrors up close and not just from youtube videos. You have been to a slaughter and seen how it's done and that they torture each and every one of those whales.
@ilovelitago Then keep eating your Grandiosa and your Norwegian plastic food. We are hunters. That's it. Then, indeed, you gotta do this as quick as possible. Don't you ever walk on worms or insects? Same shit.
@mellomdesyvfjell i try not to walk on insects and worms. if i see them i avoid them. and i don't so much pizza and all of that. i eat most vegtebals, but i am allergic to fruit and nuts so i don't have much of a choice.
@ilovelitago are you FRICKING kidding me ?! oh yeah, my dad goes whale hunting with forks!! hehe you're pathetic! if you want to speak up about a subject like this, can you at least know a little bit about it then?! FYI the whale dies instantly, it's only people like you, who think otherwise "a big town snob" SERIOUSLY I don't stand in for it either and I'm from The Faroe Islands! I haven't eaten it in years! and it really bugs me when it's "grindaboð" but seriously get your facts right!!
@ilovelitago I'm sorry I freaked out, but these comments calling us all these things and hearing it constantly make me crazy. Because what they say isn't true, and people that judge before knowing anything about the thing they're talking about, piss me off. So I'm really sorry about that all my anger got over you.
The whale dies instantly 'cause they stab them in the top of their spine. (don't know how to explain it)
@pennydave Of course we do!!! do you think we're stupid!! it's going around everywhere, and kids and young people don't eat it anymore! some do a couple times a year, but there are a lot of children that don't touch it (including me) I mean it's SUCH a long time ago ( seriously, I don't know why people, that don't know ANYTHING about it, think that they know more than us! weird)
@o8Cupcakes8o Oh, I see. I was thinking that some people knew about it but since they have these events only a couple times a year, then people thought that it was okay to eat as much whale meat during one time. Either that, or whale meat is extremely delicious (I never tried whale meat, so I don't know) Anyway, I learned in my class that if you eat a lot at one time even if it' only once, it could cause a lot of problems. But as long as people know about it, that's a good thing.
@pennydave It CAN lead into problems, but not just by eating it once. It's not good for especially girls, cause it can make you sterile, but it's not anything that happens just by eating it once. That's why we don't eat meat until we're "old" Hehe and it's really starting to get unpopular, so it's not going to be long until we don't eat it anymore! (even tho it tastes really good) (I'm sorry that I was so rude to you, but these comments calling us names make me kinda mad)
I hate seeing this. It's true it is 2011, and there is always another way. If we can import things here, so can they. They do it with such joy and I know they do NOT each as many as they kill. It's a sport to them too.
@MorgannLovesMatt So if we could breed the whales somehow and then kill them it would be okay? And how exactly do you know they do not eat all of it and that it's a sport to them?
@MykeHawke1 Look at Japan. Watch the Cove. If we absolutely NEEDED to rely on killing animals to survive like the cavemen, then of course it would be a need. But looking at them doing this, it's not a need. They don't look poor and when you research this more you will understand. I don't even agree with puppy breeding for selling since animals are like family to me and that's not what God created animals for. Some who buy them do experiments and torture on them.
@MorgannLovesMatt "when you research this more you will understand" *cough* I am from Faroe Islands... I agree we should not kill animals if it will endanger the specie, but so far the slaughter of pilot whales is sustainable and is not endangering the pilot whale population, unlike many other slaughters of animals. This slaughter is the same principle man has lived by for thousands of years. It's fine you think breeding animals for slaughter is more ethical, but I don't.
There are about 1.3 million Pilot Whales; the Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 annually for sustenance food. They weigh about 1.5 tons each (max size 2.5 tons). 1,000 whales x 1.5 tons = 1,500 tons of whale
There are about 14,000 Bowhead Whales left; the Alaskan Inuits kill 50 to 75 annually for sustanance food. They weigh about 80 tons each (max size 110 tons). 50 whales x 80 tons = 4,000 tons of whale.
If the Inuits hunted Pliot Whales they would need to kill many many more whales
@jd426999 "These whales belong to ALL OF US" so... that means they also belong to the Faroe Islands and makes it nothing wrong with them killing the whales because... they belong to them... the logic of you environmentalists or nature sensitive people is atrocious...
@MykeHawke1, come on stop bull shitting. The fact that we believe the whales belong to all of us DOES NOT mean we all want to kill them. YOU DO!!! Shame on you, what a disgusting way to express your traditions.
@thestick52 firstly, they DO NOT belong to all of us... who the hell said that? and btw, I was being sarcastic to a response...
And what exactly gives other people the right to say the faroese have no right to kill whales that are only in Faroe Islands and just happen to swim by? It does not affect anyone else in the world and it does not affect the whale population... The only thing it affects is the feelings of sensitive people who think they're making a difference bitching about it on youtube
@MykeHawke1 you tend to be a little too sarcastic when it comes to killing inoffensive animals and react as if people in the Faroe Islands had the mighty right to skin those poor creatures just because "they happen to swim by". Let's give the Kenyans the same right to kill their elephants, lions and so on then. The thing that worries me most is that sick people like you can still defend such practices and be convinced of his wretched pledge. SHAME!
@thestick52 The difference is the pilot whale is not endangered like so many animals around the world. Most people react to the slaugther as if pilot whales are the most endangered specie in the world. If you look at it correctly, they are not endangering the population, they do it for food that is contributed to everyone for free. This is not sick, what is sick is people like you judging without knowledge, believing in propaganda and never questioning information from the media.
Lions and elephants are critically endangered. There are 1.3 million pilot whales in the northern oceans and the Faroese kill about 500 to 1,000 annually for food.
@ContrastNY How gentle and merciful you are... I can hardly imagine someone slaughtering 500 to 1000 dogs or cats, all at the same place and time just because they aren't endangered species, can you? What lousy kind of argument is it? Sorry mate, I just don't follow you!
@thestick52 Do some research, they kill 500-1,000 annually, not at the same time or place. Dogs and cats are bred for domestic pets. What in the world do dogs or cats have to do with pilot whales?
The pilot whales that are killed have a far better life than any animal that is bred for the sole purpose of being slaughtered such as cows, pigs, or ducks for foie gras.
Pilot Whales are not endangered, and are used as a food source, just as the Inuits of Alaska kill bowhead and narwal whales.
what a load of old SHIT! fuck you and you traditions.... go to the supermarket for food.. this planet is already in need of help, and yet you go and kill the most beautiful things we have left..... get a grip on your lives.. its 2011!!!! fuck, brutal.
@Edwardianjack The supermarkets are responsible for making species critically endangered such as bluefin tuna, among many others. Pilot whales are not endangered, they are classified as "least concern".
BTW, do you have any idea how many whales and dolphins are killed in the commercial seafood process so "supermarkets" can sell fish???? 300,000 annually, due to entanglement in
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im proud to be from the faroes and thats my way to say people are stupid when they say that "Those who can kill an animal that easily can do the same to a human, easily too!!" so f*** them!!!
TheBasserne 1 hour ago
the pilot whales (grind) is that who saved us while we when there hunger in the faroes and 1 pilot whale (grind) is wort** 1 milion in meat and thats a lot of money for a small comunyty like we are
so we are thankful to the pilot whales for saving our islands if it werent for them we would not be here. sorry for my fails in the text but im only 13
TheBasserne 1 hour ago
Those who can kill an animal that easily can do the same to a human, easily too!!
allnew17 4 days ago
@allnew17 dumbest... comment... ever...
MykeHawke1 4 days ago
We are saying how cruel are the people in Taiji, Japan but the fact a EU country is brutally killing these animals amazes me in a very bad way. And they try to justifie it by saying that they are not doing it for money or cause its a tradition? Is killing a tradition? Moreover u see women participating and even kids. What kind of parents let their kids to witness this massacre, this sea of blood. And what kind of a person you have to be to kill in such a horrific way a living creature.
allnew17 4 days ago
@allnew17 :
Even Faroe Islands is a part of Kingdom of Denmark, they are NOT a EU country (so is Greenland too)!!
jonathan19960804 1 day ago
''yummy'' eg vil gjarna fáa fatur á Grindi aftur í ár :DD uuhm sum tað smakkar væl ;) og kinesarOr eta hundar bwadl :( tað er vemmeligt....... soleiðis tonka útlendingarar um okkum :(
MegaTechnoMouse 1 week ago
I'm going there and eat whales with the Faorese!!! Go Faroes, eat your whalel and enjoy it like you've been doing for 1,000 years don't worry about stupid brainwashed couch potatoes with pretend moral superiority while they're obese scratching their ass watching Kardashians and Jerry Springer eating Burger King. Maybe they can get some exercise hard work in the Grind? Oh no, they don't need any more blubber too much already. Fuck. Live & let live dammit
DeirdreEmm 3 weeks ago
@DeirdreEmm go to hell
trecoolgreendayluv 1 hour ago
Centuries old cultural tradition and nosy people should mind their own fucking politically correct business and drink a nice warm cup of shut the FUCK up. These Faroese people were never overfishing or mass killing whales and blue and yellowfin tuna till they're extinct nobody even knew about this for the last thousand years till POLITICAL CORRECT ASSHOLES open their mouth about it. My advice is shut up and go protest Japanese or keep eating McDonalds morons.
DeirdreEmm 3 weeks ago
This is whats make me proud of beeng faroes !!!
brandarh 4 weeks ago
wel when the oceans are polluted, they can eat what they want, they die anyway
sampleforyou 1 month ago
@sampleforyou exactly
rano0672 1 month ago
@ContrastNY
So fuck it anything thats large in numbers is fine to slaughter in a horrific way.
403766 1 month ago
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OVER 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are slowly killed every year due to entanglement in commercial fishing gear, including critically endangered species. The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered pilot whales annually and use all of the meat.
HOW MANY OF YOU EAT SEAFOOD AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEATH OF 300,000 WHALES AND DOLPHINS KILLED ANNUALLY BY COMMERCIAL FISHING AND STILL CRITICIZE THE FAROESE???
ContrastNY 1 month ago
i understand completely that we all tend to eat from other animals but the way these are pulled into the docks and simply slaughtered by a group of men with big knifes and ropes? im sure we could find a faster and caring way to get are resources with a quick kill? Just a question and idea.
abl175 1 month ago
Oh... if you a vegetarian. That is cool for you and all but humans are not vegetarians as a species. We are omnivores. Get over it.
donroca121 1 month ago
Creatures getting their own food when opportunity arises... that is how nature is. See all the blood in the water? There is a thousand times more blood coming out of animal farms all over the US and those animals are getting beaten the crap out of but now that the green movement is on, everyone thinks that the giant farms are over so lets go pick on people who have learned how to kill animals without damaging the environment... yay!
donroca121 1 month ago
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Folks..
1) Do you know that these whales have had the most amazing lives living free in the ocean?
2) This is something that we have done for many hundred years, it's a tradition.
And 3) Korea kill dogs... Just saying.
A7xBjorkJ 1 month ago
This meat isnt safe to eat.
LowCountryHerping 1 month ago
This hoe is crazy, " I was not surprised" dumb ass!!
Muziify 1 month ago
The fact that there are people who think this is "justifiable".... shows that the human race is the worst thing that has happened to this beautiful planet.
IF the whalers went out and killed them without the use of boats, and massive hooks, and other horrible devices it be okay. Swim out and try to kill a whale with a knife and your hands. lets see how well that goes
nickoo2nickoo2 1 month ago
@nickoo2nickoo2 At least they try to do it in the least painful way possible. i also don't fully understand this community. As long as this is necessary. If they only do this to keep a tradition going then that's sad
nickoo2nickoo2 1 month ago
Making the argument that killing an animal through butchery is wrong is probably the most bizarre thing to say in this case. These people understand the animal, take the best precautions to insure a quick and relatively painless death and harvest, appreciate and distribute it among the community. The amount of whales killed seems a bit excessive and those numbers could be cut down, pardon the pun. That would be my only complaint.
Willwhistleforfood 1 month ago
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No one should fly into a rage about this without first doing a bit of research. I was SHOCKED when I saw these images on facebook, but after looking it up a bit, I think this is actually more humane than the ways that we kill much of our livestock in America and other first-world countries. Now if you're against the killing of all animals no matter what, fine-- that's your cause. But don't rage about how cruel this is and then go eat a burger. That cow probly suffered more. It's hypocritical.
unscrewedhorses 1 month ago
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unscrewedhorses 1 month ago
i really think she is missing the point, from what she is saying until the whales are not ENDANGERED it is ok to kill them, i think this does not make any sense at all.
Also culture importance to keep killing, what the hell, can't you find anther habit, am sure you're cutler will survive without this, so just don't try to explain you're self and cutler importance, if all cities start doing what you do you still think you can sustain this? if the answer is yes THEN i UNDERSTAND.
michelimages2 1 month ago
@michelimages2 How many cities are completely cut off from distribution routes for food and goods? How many cities are in the middle of the north Atlantic on steep rock formations?
Have you ever seen the prices for food in the faroes? It's sky high because everything has to be imported.
Culturall Importance = THAT'S HOW THEY SURVIVE! THEY LIVE OFF OF THE SEA (fish and whales) AND THE LAND (sheep)
ContrastNY 1 month ago
yea c'mon.. when you see something like this, how could you even try to justify it? These aren't cows or chicken here, it's a family and you do know how intelligent they are, don't you? How could you call yourself human and not see the barbarism in this? Plus, their meat is not suitable for consumption. Nature herself has drawn the line between what we should and should not eat. How sad.. knowing how friendly whales and dolphins are to us compared to other species.
tushaani 1 month ago
@tushaani So basically humans are not allowed to kill animals for food, but animals are allowed to kill animals for food? or is it just a particular group of animals that you "like" and think are "cute" that you don't want humans to kill?
MykeHawke1 1 month ago 12
@MykeHawke1 obviously and animal eating an animal is allowed because its called the "circle of life" but when humans get involve and butcher this many innocent whales that are killed by a completely different set of species with hands and technology to kill an animal is totally different!!!
gummybears1339 1 month ago
@gummybears1339 No it isn't... just because humans are more clever than other animals and have developed advanced tools to help them doesn't mean they shouldn't use them to provide them with food.
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 i suppose you think mercury poisoning is cute then. good luck to your health if you choose to be ignorant. and, you're missing the point. you can rear chicken, cow, pigs in hoards, but it takes years to attempt to "rear" whales in enclosed areas or naturally in the ocean. we're not saying it's wrong to eat animals for survival, we're saying it's wrong to damage the balance of nature. if you can't put back what you have taken, don't do it.
notindieenough 1 month ago
@notindieenough Yeh, mercury is as cute as alcohol, smoking, drugs and violence... which is through the roof in several other countries. And scientific studies have proven that the grindadráp does not damage the balance of nature of pilot whales.
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 which "scientific studies" published this? it IS damaging in the long run. the exact figures of the pilot whale is unknown, and while not considered extinct presently, it does not mean they are not in danger of extinction the rate they are being hunted. stop comparing them to pigs. pigs are born in litters, one whale is produced at a time. the gestation and calving period is also much longer for whales.
notindieenough 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 the american cetacean society states that gestation and calving period for the pilot whale is 12-15 months and every 3-5 years respectively. this compared to a pig's at 112-115 days and twice every year. so, my question is, your argument is that faroese only take a few thousand pilot whales every year, but can you replace this same amount every year? do the math, and tell me if it's sustainable.
notindieenough 1 month ago
@notindieenough Yes you can replace the same amount since there are almost a million pilot whales worldwide and the anual catch is around 900, which is 0,1% of the total population.
You say you come from Singapore? how many people live there? how are businesses doing there? How is the market? and how is the economy? And is it fair to say because your country doesn't have a lot of natural resources then countries that do shouldn't benefit from theirs?
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
@notindieenough They take 500 to 1,000, not a few thousand and there are 1,370,000 pilot whales in the northern oceans, so go ahead and do the math...
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 BTW, i'm sorry if it sounds rude, but the sustenance argument sounds pretty lame to me. i come from singapore, a country that is way smaller than yours. the country itself is a city and land is scarce. we do not have rear animals or grow plants here. there is little natural resources here, and we import food from overseas. if you cannot afford to have beef which is considered a luxury, then replace it with something else. it's called living within your means.
notindieenough 1 month ago
@notindieenough Singapore is also a major shipping lane hub, the faroe islands are not!
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@tushaani Cows and pigs have the intelligence of a 4 year old child and they live in cages for their entire lives and get slaughtered by the millions...
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@tushaani You've gotta ask yourself: Is this really so much different from any other killing of any other species? I mean, the method of killing is very fast (fastest method of killing of wild mammals, both on land and in water, IWC Glasgow 1992). Sure you see a lot of blood, but did you really expect otherwise?
What does intelligence have to do with anything? Shouldn't we kill animals, because they're intelligent?
And how do you know dolphins are friendly to us?
TokiThor 1 month ago
@tushaani they're just like cows and chicken and not like humans. hence why this is absolutely fine.
163edley 1 month ago
@tushaani did you know that pigs are as intelligent as a whales? Did you know that pigs, as whales and dogs and most mammals just like us live in groups (families)? Did you also know that the most harvested meat and animal product in planet earth is pork? Have you ever been to a slaughter house? Have you ever seen a pig being slaughtered? Killing an animal for consumption is ok as long as it is done in a humane way (whatever that means) and keeping in mind the survival of the species.
CHAVALO373 1 month ago
@tushaani you are fuckin' retarded, it's an island in a middle of nowhere, what are they suppose to eat? and they are not killing a thousands whales, just a few
Xazard 1 month ago
commercial fishing and whale killing is as bad... go to seashepherd org
7TKx 1 month ago
it has a heart and a brain, it's just like us, It's obviously not a human but is still a living breathing being and it deserves much more respect then being butchered.
BullsEyeBlaze 1 month ago
@BullsEyeBlaze What about the animals a lion kills every day? doesn't it deserve respect instead of being eaten alive? or the mother losing its baby to a lion or any other animal? what about them? or the animals that have to die to feed dogs and cats? or the animals that die so that animals in zoo can get some food? what about all those animals?
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
This is disgusting, how can human beings be so cruel, these anmials are just as equal as us, and should not be treated any differently then humans, how the fuck would you like it if you were trapped and being butchered, watching you family and friends die around you?
BullsEyeBlaze 1 month ago
@BullsEyeBlaze In your opinion they are equal, in reality... no...
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
you show 5 or 6 y.o. KIDS WITH KNIVES slaughtering the dolphins.. BARBAROUS!
these dolphins are ENDANGERED... it's not like cows, tha tyou can breed
7TKx 1 month ago
@7TKx THEY ARE NOT ENDANGERED, THERE ARE 1,370,000 PILOT WHALES IN THE NORTHERN OCEANS. DO SOME RESEARCH.
PERHAPS YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR CONCERN TOWARDS THE COMMERCIAL FISHING INDUSTRY; THEY KILL OVER 300,000 WHALES AND DOLPHINS EVERY YEAR DUE TO ENTANGLEMENT IN THEIR FISHING GEAR.
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 no it shows that he feels for the living..this people is a pest.. the faster we get rid of the better -.- i ofc dont mean that but if u kill Anything like that u deserve to die urself..
jegerover18ar 1 month ago
@jegerover18ar Ok. Animals kill animals in a way more cruel way, then how come he doesn't shout at them and want to kill all carnivores around the world? He feels for the living right? Then he should also be mad at them... even dogs and cats are carnivore, what are they suppose to eat if people do not kill animals? plants? maybe it's okay to kill an animal to feed your dog and not the population. Also would it please you if whales were killed in cruel slaughter houses instead?
MykeHawke1 1 month ago
@MykeHawke1 hey im not for killing anything but yea we need to eat.. but when thats said i Dont belive taking from the wild if there is no need for it..
jegerover18ar 1 month ago
@jegerover18ar So are you saying they should raise animals that live in small cages until they are killed for food, rather than kill a non-endangered animal from the wild?
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@ContrastNY -.-' did i say that? u can raise animals on grass fields where they have a good life.. why do all of u "supporters" think that if i dont like whaling i must love evil pig farms?
jegerover18ar 1 month ago
@jegerover18ar How many "free range" slaughter houses are there in comparison to the standard slaughter houses that raise animals in cramped cages?
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@ContrastNY to few.... but thats still not the point. dont start to go off topic.
jegerover18ar 1 month ago
@jegerover18ar How many are there? That is the point; they are killing wild animals for food rather than animals raised in small cages in slaughter houses. "Free Range" slaughter houses represent less than 1% of all slaughter houses. It's more humane to kill a wild animal, provided it is not endanged, which the pilot whales are not, as there are 1,370,000 in the northern oceans and another 800,000 in the southern oceans.
ContrastNY 1 month ago
@ContrastNY really i can't speak to u..
jegerover18ar 1 month ago
@jegerover18ar WATCH "FROM FARM TO FRIDGE" HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HOW ANIMALS ARE TREATED IN SLAUGHTER HOUSES? IT'S A MILLION TIMES WORSE THAN THESE WHALES WHO GET TO LIVE THEIR LIFE IN THE OPEN OCEAN BEFORE THEY ARE KILLED.
ContrastNY 1 month ago
Fuck Sea Shepherd
bedofrazorsqwerty 2 months ago
This is horrible.. That is all I got to say,
megavolt2000 2 months ago
This is heartbreaking and wrong, people this has to stop, these people have zero understanding of the consept of conservation, the pilot whales are soon to be extinct
MrZapparin 2 months ago
@MrZapparin .... please tell me you're a troll, if not then please go and read about the pilot whale and see they are not considered endangered...
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 30 million sperm cells and your the one who made it through.
rebelgabriel4308 2 months ago
@rebelgabriel4308 *you're
Yeah, I'm amazing.
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 oh excuse me. "You're" smarter than everyone. Mommy and daddy must be proud of you.
rebelgabriel4308 2 months ago
@rebelgabriel4308 They are.
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 Keyboard Warrior!! aren't ya
rebelgabriel4308 2 months ago
@MrZapparin You could not be more wrong. There are about 1.4 million non-endangered pilot whales in the northern oceans, another 800,000 in the southern oceans, of which the Faroese kill and eat 500 to 1,000 annually.
The Inuits of Alaska kill and eat 50 to 75 bowhead whales annually, of which there are about 12,000 left.
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@ContrastNY I dont agree with the killing of any threatened Species but you have got to be joking if you think you can compare the Inuits of Alaska with the Faroes. And the killing methods of both are terrible.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed It's the ratio of whales killed to the population. The Alaskan's kill 50 to 75 Bowhead whales annually from a population of 8,200 to 13,500 whales. The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered, non-threatened pilot whales annually from population of 1,370,000 in the northern seas.
The Alaskan's also kill and eat Narwal Whales, Spotted Seals and Walrusses.
But, why are you focussing on the faroes when countries such as Iceland, Norway and Japan are commercially whaling?
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@ContrastNY Like i said the Alaskans dont have easy access to the mainstream food as the Faroes do and the IWC sets their catch limit. And for me its not about numbers its more about the killing method and whether killing Whales is a necessity. I dont believe the Faroes would starve to death and think the hunt is more about a stupid Tradition than anything else. And i do focuss on Iceland, Norway and also Japan. And so does Sea Shepherd.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed The Faroese do not have access to anything easily, food products, etc. Some of the villages such as Gásadalur did not have access to the rest of the country until a tunnel was built in 2005. The country as a whole is completely isolated from the outside world, and there are little to no distribution of imports into the Faroes.
ContrastNY 2 months ago
I really LOVE Faroe Islands,but this is just rediculous!!
This is ... I HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT!!PLEASE STOP IT !! =(
Eurofan2006 2 months ago
@Eurofan2006 Ridiculous? What do you call slaughter houses? Watch From Farm to Table it's on this site.
At least the non-endangered pilot whales live a life in the open sea rather than cramped cages in a slaughter until the day they are killed. All of the pilot whale is used for food to subsidize the high cost of food in the faroes.
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed The Alaskan Inuits kill bowhead and nawal whales, spotted seals and walruses. And they have even killed pregnant whales, you can't tell if a whale is pregnant.
Here is the pregnant whale the Inuits killed...
youtube . com / watch?v=4vz2k1jAhIE
ContrastNY 2 months ago
I fukn hate these pricks
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed yeh, I fukn hate those environmentalist pricks as well!
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 Yer me too. Any asshole whos trying to make the world a better place is a fucking prick. We need less of every other species and more lovely butchering humans. Im proud to be part of the planets next mass Extinction. Humans are the greatest. Long live the human race. Gosh im starting to sound like those Nazis sounded huh..
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed "Butchering Humans" then, what do you call the slaughter houses of the west?
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@ContrastNY Wow you sound like the Japanese. Dont forget Japanese and the Faroes eat beef, lamb, chicken also. You could use that argument if they didnt but they do. And i dont agree with any slaughter houses.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed You clearly haven't been to the Faroes... then you would know they have very little beef and it's considered a luxury since it's so expensive. The land is too steep to farm cows.
All of my comments are directed towards those who eat meat, support slaughter houses, but criticize the Faroese for eating non-endangered pilot whales. What has a better life; cows, pigs etc. in cramped slaughter houses for their entire lives or pilot whales who live in the sea until it's killed?
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@ContrastNY We dont farm like that in NZ except maybe Chickens and pigs. Its all a disgrace. I must say tho, i have seen tons of footage of different animals being Slaughtered and the Fareos takes the cake when it comes torturing an animal to death. I myself would rather be shot in the head with a bolt gun than slashed to death with saws and knifes. But like i said i dont agree with any of it. And the fareos do promote slaughter houses if they buy meat from them also.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed And remember NZ is also an island country. We use to Whale. Now everyone agrees that its something in our history we would rather forget. Its an embarrassment. Now we make millions from tourists wanting to go Whale watching. We have smartened up. I guess you may wake up one day and say this cultural thing is complete Bullshit and the fareos will see how the rest of the world views what they do. Or maybe they will just continue. Not everyone smartens up.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed There are over 4 million people in NZ and less than 50.000 in Faroe Islands and NZ is like 200 times larger than the Faroes... And tbh so far you haven't had a single valid argument to stop the whaling in Faroe Islands.
Slashed to death with a saw and knife? Where do you get your information? Sea Shepherd?
Here is a little tip for you, videos that are against something, will manipulate their video/story to win you over to their cause. it's as simple as that.
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 Im not arguing with you. I was stating a fact. I hate those pricks. How about Tonga. Double the population of the Faroes but have stopped Whaling and now run multi million dollar Whale watching tourism ventures. They also have to import most food stuffs. Heres a little tip for you. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I have seen so much footage from the faroes and the footage speaks for itself. And slaughtering pregnant mothers....Mongrels
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed A picture can say a thousand words, but a picture does not necessarily say the thruth, because it lets the viewer comes to their own conclusion.
Then what about Japan? one of the most advanced and civile countries in the world, yet they hunt whales?
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
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Stopthegreed 2 months ago
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@MykeHawke1 Its like the Faroes are fighting to stay in the Stone Age. Ive never seen a bigger group of RedNecks using Tradition as an excuse for their disgusting behavior.
Stopthegreed 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed You live on an Island that has a distribution channel for food and goods. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get food and goods into the Faroes? They just don't have the distribution which creates incredibly high prices, therefore they must subsidize their living costs...
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@Stopthegreed Watch Farm to Table it's on this site. The Faroes do not have slaughter houses, the sheep roam the green mountains. In other countries cows, pigs, chickens, etc are crammed into tiny cages and hear animals being slaughtered every single day until they are killed.
The Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 non-endangered pilot whales annually that live in the open sea; a much quicker death than any slaughter house.
ContrastNY 2 months ago
1. whale's life does not belong to humans, belong to whales.
2. Faroe's ppl does not need to kill whales to survive.
3. cultural tradition my balls: there are aways other (and better) ways to ceremony the same reason.
4. i can see kids doing this for fun, nice teachings. =(
5. again: cultural tradition my balls
parangaah 2 months ago
@parangaah 1. If you want to eat meat, you have to kill an animal, and who are you to refuse people of eating meat?
2. No they don't, but it's still a free meal for those who want a piece, and that saves money.
3. They don't do it for cultural reasons, it just happens to be part of their culture which it has been for several hundred years.
4. Kids are not doing this for fun, however they are taught to see reality, not hidden away from it like in America and other countries.
5. See 3.
MykeHawke1 2 months ago 2
@MykeHawke1
1. yes, if i want to eat meat i do kill an animal. I would do it when im hungry. Faroe's ppl dont suffer hungry but still kill it. They do it in a large scale which seriously crashes nature's balance.
2. Still a life is a life and must be respect. if i kill it to survive, it is respectable.
3. "they dont do it for cultural reasons, it happens to be part of their culture"... oh wait!
several hundred years is too much in the past, it must be changed to fit our actual state.
parangaah 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1
4. they are seeing a desrespectable reality and this is sad.
5. see 3.
parangaah 2 months ago
@parangaah What is disrespectable with it? They live their lives free and nothing gets wasted and they get a quick death, no child walks shocked away from a slaughter, and when they get older they know how it is instead of becoming old and to never have seen a slaughter before. No what is disrespectful is hiding your children away from reality only so they will become over sensitive people who have no idea where meat comes from.
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 Nothing gets wasted? A quick death? These people hacking away at their spines does not qualify as a quick death, them flapping about in the shallow water does not qualify as a quick death. Sure a small part of the movement is post-mortem reflexes but most of it is the whale fighting for its life. If this was purely for a 'free meal', how come tons of whale meat is sold and exported every year. Animals are not on this planet to serve us, especially not when they're not..
DontBotherTETRiS 2 months ago
@DontBotherTETRiS Firstly, the so called whale meat industry is not in Faroe Islands. Secondly, saying that in the meat industry animals die quickly only proves that you don't know what you're talking about. The truth is that the animals, f.ex. the chicken, dies a very slow and painful death before it becomes your meal and struggles throughout its entire life. Check out the video Farm to Fridge before saying the meat industry is more noble than the whale slaughter in the Faroes
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MykeHawke1 ..living in our natural habitat. Just because you have the opportunity to take advantage of a more trusting living being, does not mean that you should. Especially when it's not for survival as it once was but for a 'free meal'. There's nothing free about slaughtering these intelligent, social animals, it's an industry and a foul one at that. The domesticated meat industry at least provides a quicker death and is purely a nutritional food source. Whaling is not.
DontBotherTETRiS 2 months ago
Most isolated small islands around the world have the same low murder/crime rates. We have them in the UK. It has nothing to do with how advanced morally they are. Most criminologists can explain it very simply.
I and others find it telling that you try to compare what you all do for a days entertainment for the last few hundred years to the Inuit’s.
No amount of propaganda will explain the practice away. As long as you all have a great time I suppose that’s all that matters!
SCD4 2 months ago
MMMMMMMhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm Whale :)))
bardurn 2 months ago
Cultural?
Now there’s something to be proud off.
SCD4 2 months ago
@SCD4 The Alaskan Inuits are proud of their culture of whaling, so why shouldn't the Faroese?
Rather than trying to preserve the non-endangered pilot whales. Perhaps you might want to preserve the culture of the Faroese. There isn't a more peaceful place in the world, for example; there has only been 2 (two!) murders in the past 23 years. The rest of the world can learn a lot from the good people of the Faroe Islands!
ContrastNY 2 months ago
@ContrastNY
what tradition used steel diesel driven boats to heard the whales in? if these savages used old canoes like their ancestors did you would understand the argument for culture this however is not!!
MrSilverb4ck 2 months ago
@MrSilverb4ck They used rowing boats, harpoons and methods that killed the whales in many cases slowly. The reason why they use these methods now is to satisfy sensitive animal lovers like you, and now you actually complain that it's not cultural anymore because they had to change their methods for YOU and the whales???.....
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MrSilverb4ck *the reason why they DON'T...
MykeHawke1 2 months ago
@MrSilverb4ck The inuits use diesel boats, diesel fork lifts and drive their catch home in their SUV's and cars. JUst watch below...
youtube. com/ watch?v=xjptuS7c4q0
ContrastNY 2 months ago
Hey thats my grandpa!!! XD ABBI!! :D
wow...he is young O.o
JollyKettan 3 months ago
you
einartorstun 3 months ago
@gonzilio79 Save the whales for what?
mhlck 3 months ago
@mhlck SUPPER
R3troguy 3 months ago
@gonzilio79 Shut the fuck up you idiot.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
the taste of grind! love it<3
35elias 3 months ago
Fuck the terrible human race...
gonzilio79 3 months ago
@gonzilio79 lol... you fail.
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@gonzilio79 fuck you, how do you thing pigs have it they get killed every day this is ones a year
einartorstun 3 months ago
@einartorstun
sorry, man. i am a vegan. so i do not eat animals. pigs do not really have it better. so, you are right with your comment
gonzilio79 3 months ago
What for sick people are that ?!? They learn their kids it's just normal and that's wrong !!
Mikeplatje 3 months ago
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@Mikeplatje How can you know?
What makes you think you are smarter than all 49.267 of us?
R3troguy 3 months ago
screw tradition and culture, that's just an excuse some of us have, whales are delicious and I want my share on the dinner table. !
Kleyvarin 3 months ago
ебанутая традиция
irafd 3 months ago
there are ways to kill whales faster and with less pain, but instead the faroe islanders choose to torture the whales with hooks and sticks. i don't understand how people can stand killing a animal or an other person. i get sick when i see dead animals.
ilovelitago 3 months ago
@ilovelitago Yes, you are completely correct and obviously a professional in the matter which means your word is correct, you have seen it happen irl and witnessed the horrors up close and not just from youtube videos. You have been to a slaughter and seen how it's done and that they torture each and every one of those whales.
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1 SPLITTING SARCASM
It's quite uncommon for me to meet someone that is not a major activist against whaling, let alone supporting our cause.
R3troguy 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1 sarcasm..........?
ilovelitago 3 months ago
@ilovelitago Then keep eating your Grandiosa and your Norwegian plastic food. We are hunters. That's it. Then, indeed, you gotta do this as quick as possible. Don't you ever walk on worms or insects? Same shit.
mellomdesyvfjell 3 months ago
@mellomdesyvfjell i try not to walk on insects and worms. if i see them i avoid them. and i don't so much pizza and all of that. i eat most vegtebals, but i am allergic to fruit and nuts so i don't have much of a choice.
ilovelitago 3 months ago
@ilovelitago are you FRICKING kidding me ?! oh yeah, my dad goes whale hunting with forks!! hehe you're pathetic! if you want to speak up about a subject like this, can you at least know a little bit about it then?! FYI the whale dies instantly, it's only people like you, who think otherwise "a big town snob" SERIOUSLY I don't stand in for it either and I'm from The Faroe Islands! I haven't eaten it in years! and it really bugs me when it's "grindaboð" but seriously get your facts right!!
o8Cupcakes8o 3 months ago
@o8Cupcakes8o chill dude. now i know. you don't need to aact like a prick just because i said somthing wrong. how do the whales die instantly?
ilovelitago 3 months ago
@ilovelitago I'm sorry I freaked out, but these comments calling us all these things and hearing it constantly make me crazy. Because what they say isn't true, and people that judge before knowing anything about the thing they're talking about, piss me off. So I'm really sorry about that all my anger got over you.
The whale dies instantly 'cause they stab them in the top of their spine. (don't know how to explain it)
o8Cupcakes8o 3 months ago
@o8Cupcakes8o it's ok. i just hope the whales die as quick as possible.
ilovelitago 3 months ago
@o8Cupcakes8o btw i don't have anything against faroe people. i'm sure most of them are nice people.
ilovelitago 3 months ago
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@ilovelitago oh I wasn't talking about you if you think that, but there are some other people that do and it's really uncomfortable.
o8Cupcakes8o 3 months ago
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Kleyvarin 3 months ago
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Kleyvarin 3 months ago
In my country we have a tradition that is called: "slaughter alot of animals and eat their flesh"
What's the difference to what the faroese are doing? NOTHING AT ALL
Hyddan92 3 months ago
Whale meat has high levels of mercury and can cause a lot of problems. I hope they know that.
pennydave 3 months ago
@pennydave We do know about that.
But the times when we (well, at least me) eat the meat, they are few and far between. So it's not that dangerous for us.
R3troguy 3 months ago
@pennydave Of course we do!!! do you think we're stupid!! it's going around everywhere, and kids and young people don't eat it anymore! some do a couple times a year, but there are a lot of children that don't touch it (including me) I mean it's SUCH a long time ago ( seriously, I don't know why people, that don't know ANYTHING about it, think that they know more than us! weird)
o8Cupcakes8o 3 months ago
@o8Cupcakes8o Oh, I see. I was thinking that some people knew about it but since they have these events only a couple times a year, then people thought that it was okay to eat as much whale meat during one time. Either that, or whale meat is extremely delicious (I never tried whale meat, so I don't know) Anyway, I learned in my class that if you eat a lot at one time even if it' only once, it could cause a lot of problems. But as long as people know about it, that's a good thing.
pennydave 3 months ago
@pennydave It CAN lead into problems, but not just by eating it once. It's not good for especially girls, cause it can make you sterile, but it's not anything that happens just by eating it once. That's why we don't eat meat until we're "old" Hehe and it's really starting to get unpopular, so it's not going to be long until we don't eat it anymore! (even tho it tastes really good) (I'm sorry that I was so rude to you, but these comments calling us names make me kinda mad)
o8Cupcakes8o 3 months ago
@o8Cupcakes8o No problem. Glad I learned something new today :)
pennydave 3 months ago
I hate seeing this. It's true it is 2011, and there is always another way. If we can import things here, so can they. They do it with such joy and I know they do NOT each as many as they kill. It's a sport to them too.
MorgannLovesMatt 3 months ago
@MorgannLovesMatt So if we could breed the whales somehow and then kill them it would be okay? And how exactly do you know they do not eat all of it and that it's a sport to them?
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1 Look at Japan. Watch the Cove. If we absolutely NEEDED to rely on killing animals to survive like the cavemen, then of course it would be a need. But looking at them doing this, it's not a need. They don't look poor and when you research this more you will understand. I don't even agree with puppy breeding for selling since animals are like family to me and that's not what God created animals for. Some who buy them do experiments and torture on them.
MorgannLovesMatt 3 months ago
@MorgannLovesMatt "when you research this more you will understand" *cough* I am from Faroe Islands... I agree we should not kill animals if it will endanger the specie, but so far the slaughter of pilot whales is sustainable and is not endangering the pilot whale population, unlike many other slaughters of animals. This slaughter is the same principle man has lived by for thousands of years. It's fine you think breeding animals for slaughter is more ethical, but I don't.
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1
There are about 1.3 million Pilot Whales; the Faroese kill 500 to 1,000 annually for sustenance food. They weigh about 1.5 tons each (max size 2.5 tons). 1,000 whales x 1.5 tons = 1,500 tons of whale
There are about 14,000 Bowhead Whales left; the Alaskan Inuits kill 50 to 75 annually for sustanance food. They weigh about 80 tons each (max size 110 tons). 50 whales x 80 tons = 4,000 tons of whale.
If the Inuits hunted Pliot Whales they would need to kill many many more whales
ContrastNY 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1 I never even said that so please don't assume.
MorgannLovesMatt 3 months ago
@MorgannLovesMatt Because obviously you know much more about the grind than we do.
R3troguy 3 months ago
@jd426999 "These whales belong to ALL OF US" so... that means they also belong to the Faroe Islands and makes it nothing wrong with them killing the whales because... they belong to them... the logic of you environmentalists or nature sensitive people is atrocious...
MykeHawke1 3 months ago 7
@MykeHawke1, come on stop bull shitting. The fact that we believe the whales belong to all of us DOES NOT mean we all want to kill them. YOU DO!!! Shame on you, what a disgusting way to express your traditions.
thestick52 3 months ago
@thestick52 firstly, they DO NOT belong to all of us... who the hell said that? and btw, I was being sarcastic to a response...
And what exactly gives other people the right to say the faroese have no right to kill whales that are only in Faroe Islands and just happen to swim by? It does not affect anyone else in the world and it does not affect the whale population... The only thing it affects is the feelings of sensitive people who think they're making a difference bitching about it on youtube
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@MykeHawke1 you tend to be a little too sarcastic when it comes to killing inoffensive animals and react as if people in the Faroe Islands had the mighty right to skin those poor creatures just because "they happen to swim by". Let's give the Kenyans the same right to kill their elephants, lions and so on then. The thing that worries me most is that sick people like you can still defend such practices and be convinced of his wretched pledge. SHAME!
thestick52 3 months ago
@thestick52 The difference is the pilot whale is not endangered like so many animals around the world. Most people react to the slaugther as if pilot whales are the most endangered specie in the world. If you look at it correctly, they are not endangering the population, they do it for food that is contributed to everyone for free. This is not sick, what is sick is people like you judging without knowledge, believing in propaganda and never questioning information from the media.
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@thestick52 @MykeHawke1
Lions and elephants are critically endangered. There are 1.3 million pilot whales in the northern oceans and the Faroese kill about 500 to 1,000 annually for food.
ContrastNY 3 months ago
@ContrastNY How gentle and merciful you are... I can hardly imagine someone slaughtering 500 to 1000 dogs or cats, all at the same place and time just because they aren't endangered species, can you? What lousy kind of argument is it? Sorry mate, I just don't follow you!
thestick52 3 months ago
@thestick52 Do some research, they kill 500-1,000 annually, not at the same time or place. Dogs and cats are bred for domestic pets. What in the world do dogs or cats have to do with pilot whales?
The pilot whales that are killed have a far better life than any animal that is bred for the sole purpose of being slaughtered such as cows, pigs, or ducks for foie gras.
Pilot Whales are not endangered, and are used as a food source, just as the Inuits of Alaska kill bowhead and narwal whales.
ContrastNY 3 months ago 14
@thestick52 SHAME ON YOUR SPLITTING IGNORANCE
R3troguy 3 months ago
what a load of old SHIT! fuck you and you traditions.... go to the supermarket for food.. this planet is already in need of help, and yet you go and kill the most beautiful things we have left..... get a grip on your lives.. its 2011!!!! fuck, brutal.
Edwardianjack 3 months ago
@Edwardianjack yes.... go to the supermarket... buy meat from them... *facepalm*
MykeHawke1 3 months ago
@Edwardianjack Perhaps you should watch FROM FARM TO TABLE where do you think supermarket meat is from? It doesn't grow on shelves.
ContrastNY 3 months ago
@Edwardianjack The supermarkets are responsible for making species critically endangered such as bluefin tuna, among many others. Pilot whales are not endangered, they are classified as "least concern".
BTW, do you have any idea how many whales and dolphins are killed in the commercial seafood process so "supermarkets" can sell fish???? 300,000 annually, due to entanglement in