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  • wat kinda meat does this make?

  • in this day and age this needs to end

  • ok Killing animals which are on the edge of extinction ! THIS IS BRUTAL !!! CHICKEN AND COW OR ANY REGULAR FARM ANIMALS CAN BE REPRODUCED FAST AND EASY < BUT CAN YOU DO THE SAME WITH WHALES ?

  • chicken's are not endangered species.

  • I'm from iceland and whales eat a whole lot of fish, people eat fish, they buy fish. good for the economy.. right.. people eat whales good meat on them win win, our seas ar over populated of whales. then why not pull them to shore.. its ignorant to proteste whailing. ps when bands an celebs try to get get publisity by being anti-whailing, ingorant and shallow

  • Pessoas horriveis detestavéis, realmente não tem respeito por nenhum ser vivo..

    Sera que podem ser chamados de humanos, o que é ser humano????

    Inacreditavélll

  • icelandic whale conservation society?

  • tasty meat

  • If whales where sufficiently intelligent, they wouldn't get their asses caught by some fish net.

  • Okay, I want you to argue that a little. What is it that makes cannibalism almost the same as eating whale meat?

  • looks yummy

  • Wankers! No need to do this.. the whale will be lost forever if Norway, Iceland japan carry on like this

  • Well, that's just for a scientific-research purposes..

    LOL

  • this is so awesome.

  • Don't confuse farm animals with whales, they are different things (one is sustainable, the other is not)

  • For me this is normal to see where im from (Canada,Nunavut) When a whale is killed it is shared all around the community as food and thats just one! animal.

    I think that where ever you are born people have a differnt opinion for things then others.

    Example:

    People downsouth(Ontario,Quebec ext.)tend to think killing animals in this way is brutal and barbaric, yet they eat beef,chicken,turkey ext.Those animals are killed in masses,KFC a 20 piece chicken.. 2 drumsticks = 1 chicken Do the math.

  • Culture is awesome-- Lets eat whale 2nite!

  • The 60 percents of Japan is high mountains with deep forests that cant be cultivated for farming.

  • This is sickness no matter how cultural. I stand against this practice and you can no longer hide behind tradition, for the inhumane rights of murder and atrocity as this. Until this ends and our minds realize the brutality of what we are doing, this sickness will continue to spawan the horrors of world conflict and death upon humanity.

  • People tend to think killing animals in this way is brutal and barbaric, yet they eat beef,chicken,turkey ext.Those animals are killed in masses,KFC a 20 piece chicken.. 2 drumsticks = 1 chicken Do the math.

  • It's horrible.

    MURDERER!!!!

  • stop this murder

    boycott iceland seafood

  • Why was this flagged again?

    Hm. Oh well. Seems some people are selective about what kind of meat they find disturbing to watch as it is cut up.

  • they are ndangered...cows r bread to b killed nt whales...thye hav evolved to become food

    whales avent

  • whales are not endangered so why is this so bad??? its just like killing a cow or a chicken.

  • iceland and other scandinavian countries have been hunting whales for over a 1000years. it doesn't justify slaughtering these animals, yet im just saying that to many of them, theres nothing wrong with it.....its a cultural thing

  • ...delicious.

  • damn... that looks delicious. I want whale steak for dinner!! sharks fin soup for entree.

  • Whaling is still legal in monitored amounts in some countries due to UN agreements based on the reason of culture and tradition.

  • i like those men with the boots.

  • iceland is a lovely country..but dame...cruel

  • good thing i like veggies and soya products.

  • And what about people. Americans kill thousands of people in Iraq and Afganistan every year and you can honestly point the finger at us for killing 20 whales a year without feeling a bit hippocritical?

  • that's very true but we are fighting a WAR I dont see the purpose of killing the whales although if you know please tell me and I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything I'm actually intrested in knowing the purpose behind it. but i see what you mean and it's very true.

  • I don´t know how many cows are killed every year. But I promise it´s more than 20.

    I am a raw foodist myself. I find killing all animals bad. I don´t really see a big difference between killing a whale or a cow or a sheep.

  • My thoughts on this subject are that it was a pretty bad idea to start whaling again. The loss of goodwill from people will lead to losses in revenue from whale watching and tourism in generall. Wich will far outweigh the financial benefits of whaling.

    However I think this whole discussion is absurd. I don´t know the exact number but last year it was around 20 whales that we killed. The whaling is being closely monitered. Theres no way we will make them extinct.

  • 30 whales out of a breeding population of 100,000+ minke whales, Cry me a River.

  • that statistic was used by japanese delegates from the international whaling commission and that stat is from 1993. they stopped using this statistic in 2004 because it is considerably less than 100 000+ mink whales. so far there is no new estimate.i just think whaling isn't hunting and is cheap bullshit to do that to a whale.

  • it looks yummy :D

  • Hvaða væl er þetta. Afhverju ekki að veiða hvali til manneldis? Án gríns, það er of mikið af hvölum og hrefnum við mið Íslands til að láta þetta eiga sig. Og þótt að 60 hrefnur séu skotnar á ári breytir það ekki neinu. Bara betra fyrir stofninn ef eitthvað er.

    Og djöfull er ég sáttur við það að pakk eins og það sem vælir hérna sé ekki að koma til landsins. Það sannar heimsku sína með því að ætla að hunsa heilt þjóðfélag útaf því að hvalveiðar eru leyfðar hérna. Kominn með nóg af þessu væli.

  • THE IWC recently condemned the "dangerous actions" of campaigners trying to stop whalers in the Antarctic Ocean. The Commission, which has just concluded a three-day meeting at Heathrow, released a statement criticising US-based anti-whaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for "jeopardising safety at sea". The IWC yesterday said it "called upon the society to refrain from dangerous actions that jeopardise safety at sea, and on vessels and crews concerned to exercise restraint".

  • European fisheries slaughtered millions of whales for blubber, which caused whales to be endangered in the first place.

    Now Japan wants to hunt maybe 20 or 30 whales for food because of their culture, and there's a global uproar. This is hypocrisy at its greatest.

  • umm their quota was 900

  • I am white...I do not think white's have any more right to kill whales than anyone else. White people are not superior to others I think that people of other races opposes whaling.

  • Keep up the boycott of Iceland as long as they keep whale hunting. may all whale hunter and consumers rot in hell! There would be no whale hunters without the demand...JAPAN! and others.

  • This is horrific.

    Whaling should be brought to a stop!

  • you do realize that all meat comes from animals being cut up in a similar fashion?

  • This is horrific.

    Whaling should be brought to a stop!

  • Im Icelandic and i saw this whale when they wer draging it to land.The ONLY RESON we are killing them is becose they are EATING ALL THE FISH There are TO many whales in the Icelandic sea so we HAVE to kill them to be able to get some INCOME!Becose we NEED MONEY like all of u Just becose some hippies are telling us that we are murderers and all of that shit dose'nt mean we have to listen to you WE MAY BE THE CLOSEST THING TO THE VIKINGS BUT WE HAVE FEELINGS So go pick on the Japanese or something

  • you know......if you said that you were killing them just for FOOD i'd be fine with that

    but, instead, you kill them because they're an annoyance?

  • So Europeans massacre whales and dolphins by the thousands. Why does Japanese whaling get so much attention?

  • Cuz they're asian not white people.

  • Well, cows aren't endangered of becoming extinct, so lets eat cows.

  • A whale isn't much different from a cow except that its bigger and lives in the water. So whats the big deal?

  • Actual whales are more like humans, they are intelligent and very emotional animals. A lot of species live together and can tell individuals apart through "voices", "songs" which they communicate. They mourn for their dead, and mothers have even been documented to starve themselves if a calf dies. And like humans they reach sexual maturity at around 13 years, vary species to species.

    I don't agree with killing cows either. Cows are under appreciated IMO. I'm a vegetarian BTW

  • Wait, Wait, Why does being inteligent become a reason not to kill?

    It is the same that Black people were treated as slaves for that they were thought they were less intelligent and closer to Ape.

    Today, it is prooved that Black people are as intelligent as other people in the world

    But unless prooved, according to your opinion, you think that they remain slavery, dont you?

    Your discriminating opinion is as the same as slave-shipper.

  • Pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and are actually more social than dogs. So why do we eat pigs and not dogs?

    The reason why whales are endangered in the first place is because Europe hunted them by the thousands for their fat. Japanese people just want to eat a couple of them for their culture...

    If you want to be outraged, be outraged at people in Africa killing and eating bushmeats - chimpanzees, gorillas, etc - our closest living relatives.

  • But I love pork :'(

  • PIGS ARE EVIL!!!!!!!!! that's why..

  • cows aren't becoming extinct!

  • Some kinds of whales are in danger of extiction because of whales hunting of WHITES country just for oils in 18-19 century. And the number of some whales like mynke now recovered. It's time to restart commercial hunting of mynke whales based on the scientific data.

  • icelandic is white, so it's okay for them to kill.

  • Reminds me of that Japanese cartoon about eating Mermaid meat.

  • please don't do that anymore!!

  • I'd rather see whales harvested humanely, and in limited amounts, than some of the disgusting events in slaughterhouses. As long as it is an endangered species, why not? If we are careful.

  • Now you know how the whale population is getting lesser and lesser.

  • makes you wonder why people only care about the cute animals.

  • I've eaten whale and it isn't all that good, but people have to eat, it is a delicacy in that area so who are we to judge?

  • look. the whale was dead when they cut it. it didn't feel pain then. they killed him, sure, but they kill whales with guns, just like they kill sheep, cows and pigs. you should rather focus on how chicken are being killed VERY VERY cruelly in your own country, locked in tiny cages their WHOLE LIFE too. and kfc you eat, while complaining and boycotting us.....

  • why are they killing them? for what purpose?

  • why are they killing them in iceland? to eat? to use their bodies for what purposes?

  • and they say it's only happening in japan. think again!!!

  • i really didnt know there was so many idiots out there. just reading some of the posts, is giving me hope for endangered species. judging by the intellect behind the posts, i can see that humans will wipe themselves out before the whales get done for. yay stupidity!!

  • Green peace is a organization to collect money. They do not reveal the detail of their expenditure. Do not donate any money to them. Give foods to the African children who are starving instead.

  • i feel hungry

  • hahahahahahahaha.....me too lol nice!

  • There is nothing wrong with killing sea life as long as there not mammals us humans are mammals we feel the same pain.

  • we eat a loooooooooooot of mammals my dear

  • i love animals, but as long as a species isnt near extinction i think ppl need to b fed but the case in the west and developed countries r to fat and consume from trees to oil to animals and keep the poor in africa and mid east starvign, greedy

  • Slaughter? What is slaughter? They are doing just jobs. Japan also hunts whales. It's our tradition from 7th century.

  • their jobs?

    if i might say so myself, their jobs are pretty crappy.

    get a life, honestly.

    it WAS from the 7th century, notice now it's the 21st century. the past is the past.

  • Slaughter? What is slaughter? They are doing just jobs. Japan also hunts whales. It's our tradition from 7th century.

  • Iceland CAN exist whithout whaling!! We don´t have to live like cavemen now, you can buy other food in the supermarket, we dont need to kill whales and seals to survive. Iceland exports other things and to say that they cant survive without whaling is just STUPID!! STOP THIS MADNESS TODAY!!! These whales havent done anything wrong! They are so peaceful creatures!!! ThIS makes ME REAlly ANGRY!!!

  • Whales and Dolphines never be peaceful creatures.If you specialise in Biology,you'll know this,they are clever but they have "bullying system" in their spieces.

    If you ask me,I'll answer "peaceful creatures"

    mean chimps,oxen,and plants.Especially chimps

    are much cleverer than whales. They can even

    use some sign signature language and tell us their old memories.

  • yeah, I hate the rhetoric of leftwing-hippies about "gentle, intelligent, cuddly" animals.

    It seems that they discriminate and don't care about other ugly animals out there.

  • Chimps peaceful?

    Apparantly you haven't seen a gang of Chimpanzees tear apart a rival Chimp and eat it's flesh.

  • Whale meat is the most putrid crap you could put in your mouth but again, it isn't the point. If a new species of DONKEY were discovered the first thing a redneck will do is wonder how it tastes. It's just the stupidity they are born with and live by. By today's social and economical standards, whaling is too expensive and irrational. Because they know this, it becomes a challenge for spite.

  • kill whales..kill them all...kill all the beautiful animals elephants,tigers,seal,bears until we are left with nothing to kill but our selves.....our cannibalistic mentality is the reason behind these animals extinctions....japan is surrounded by sea and have million of fished 2 kill yet they kill a species of animals that takes years to grow to their size and for what...meat and oil...fill them japan kill them until your left with nothing 2 kill but your selves.

  • I don't understand why some people criticize Iceland. Fishery is their national industry unlikely Japan.And thinking of decreasing of their fishing,Iceland can't exist without whaling.We live in disposable society which definitely disobeys natural laws. Farmed animal and mass production prove how arrogant human beings are.Who can criticize them?

  • Please, do some research before making dumb statements: "Iceland Can't exist..." we are not attacking them for fishing, we critize them for killing whales...Iceland did not hunt whales for almost 20 years,,,

  • Unlike Japan? What do you think Japan is? Landlocked? Japan is an island hence they also rely on fisheries as well.

  • i'm sure its yummy but that is not what people are debating. we are debating the moral implications of iceland disrespecting international laws.

  • in my religon they say if you kill an animal when you die your spirit gos into that animal they kill you then eat YOU then your spirit gets attacked by snakes

  • Now, Australia is genuine terrorism-supporting state. Australia stands up for SeaShepherd who violates International Law of the Sea and takes destructive activities sneakingly and repeatedly in name of antiwhaling. Australia encourages SeaShepherd's destructive activities, SeaShepherd is well-known for "ECO-TERRORISTS" not only in Japan but also rest of the world. We Japanese never forgive Australia. It is natural that Japan should punish not only SeaShepherd but also Australia naturally.

  • Remember Sea Shepherd is the TERRORIST group !!!

    In 1986, after sinking of the Iceland whaling vessels, Sea Shepherd lost its status as observer at the IWC.

    In 1994, IWC declared to Norwegian Agency that the IWC and all its member nations ardently condemn Sea Shepherd's acts as TERRORISM.

    This time the 2 terrorists damaged the propeller of the Japanese vessel and threw acid liquid before illegally boarding.

    The terrorism must not be admitted at any circumstances.

  • It wouldn't hurt if the Japanese whaling fleet actually followed the law. You might want to look at the IWC stats on such. The Aussie navy should be sinking those ships.

  • Gentleman all this is about the pain the animals feel when they are slaughterd. The bigger the animal the more the painful is the death. Just imagine if this happens to you?

  • I eat whale meat an its fantastic much better than beef!

    Mayb too

  • u need help

  • I would judge this the same as sealing. It has to be done and people with soft hearts cant handle it. THIS isnt a big outrage because whales arent as cute as seals.

    Yet people from different sides of the earth that have nothing to do with it and have no idea the reasons why we HAVE TO KILL THEM.

  • Well, it may be, as it is with many other species, but I really doubt it. It sounds as if whale populations are still not that strong. That would be the biggest problem. Eventually, some will have to be culled, but is that now? I haven't seen anything that says so.

  • Good video.

    This is good video to know other culture.

  • doitsnek

    people ARE dying

    people here ARE worried

    "too many funny hypocritical comments here why not saying" - that makes so little sense its laughable at.

    Actualy sorry what am i doing? picking out single sentences?? I might as well paste your entire comment. If your going to try and be all high and mighty, the clever one who really does know it all and is educating us other fools atleast do it in proper english.

  • Whale meat? wow sounds good. I would like to try it one day.

  • why not try your own flesh some day!

  • wow wat a cool animal id love to try some whale one day

  • wats the point of killing that whale when its done nothing to you i think these people are just wrong!

  • maybe they want to eat it? and no i dont say it's the right thing

  • it taste like fish but a bit stronger and better

  • What does Whale MEat taste like anyways?

  • F*LMAO  too many funny hypocritical comments here why not saying "there is no excuse for killing innocent cows" but people kill cows forexample to eat them!!! OMG people is dying for many unnecessary reasons around the earth and people here is more worried about one animal that is hunted just like millions of other animals around the world.

  • your statement is unreasonable due a number of reasons a)whales are wild animals and cows are raised (in a similar matter as other food sources) b)there are no wild populations of cows, so population numbers aren't a concern. c)there are no global regulations of cow slaughter d)people are dying around the world, but what do you propose we do about it, no one is saying that human death woldwide is justified, but supporting whales doesn't imply wanting to kill people.

  • sharks are actually more important to the ecosystem.

    EAT WHALE!!!

  • Whaling should be greatly reduced in my opinion, not because we cannot eat animals, but simply because whales are endangered and a very important part of the marine ecosystem. Fullstop. This has nothing to do with not hurting animals. In the long run, we need the environment.

  • that should b eilgal

  • the whales are a problem becous ther are so manny whales aroun iceland that the fishing industri has gone down

  • No... the whales are not a problem to the fishing industry. If yo noticed, that was a baleen whale. The problem with the fishing industry is one caused by humans! We have overfished and depleted our fish stocks worldwide. We have also fished in ways that are very damaging to the environment, meaning that populations cannot recover well before we fish again. Saying that whales are the problem with the fishing industry is an ignorant and misguided excuse.

  • this is the most sick thing i have seen but the korean dogs are worst ir made me cry!!:'(

  • explain what they are?

  • what is the point of killing a whale

  • People eat animals

    Whales are animals

    Nothing new here folks

    Move along

  • Damn this vid is far to disturbing i couldnt even believe that people of all kind would do such things.

  • We must not eat cows and pigs and plants either.

    They are the lives, and not foods.

    Men should starve to death.

    It is funny to criticize whaling while people eat beef and salad.

    It is not allowed to discriminate against creatures.

  • ya guys act like pigs

  • its wrong to hurt dolphins,whale,dog,cat,cow,chi­cken,swine,people,and watever people eat so stop

  • lol even if something did hunt humans we would probly just shoot it till its dead and extinct

  • Money is all that matters, isn't it ...

  • or hunger

  • I think that if people were hunted then people would understand better. I've often thought that if you want to hunt, then you should also be legally hunted by other hunters. I think that would spice it up a bit, and give hunters some perspective.

  • You are trying to get humans extinct?

    Nice.

  • sick!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • looks like hard work

  • Killing innocent animals is absolutely no justification in terms of jobs or employment. Humans are so advanced that we have created economics. The world has millions of oppurtunities for employment. I think killing whales and justifying it for jobs and employment is a lazy and weak excuse. There are somany opprtunities. And as far as the insignificance of a few killed, that is absolutely nonsensical. Would you murder a few humans and then say that it doesnt matter??? No! you wouldnt.

  • Lmao, Iceland owns. I'm guessing this is in Reykjavik.

  • oceans are so poluted that its dangerous to eat any food from it. And whales are beautiful, U should not kill them. The worst speces on earth is HUMAN - we did the whole shit around not the whales, monkeys or sharks

  • how many kids die every day in the world? and you go pissed for a few killing whales?!?!

    áfram ísland...

  • How can you compare such a thing.

  • yes but kids arent nearly extinct are they

  • I watched this in Hvalfjörður one year ago. I live near this station and I want to say that killing couple of whales does not hurt anyone. This will make jobs and many whale species eat much of, if I will take example, cod our ''gold''. I want Iceland to hunt whales if they are killing our precious fish ''mines''

    Eiríkur Þór

  • Eirkur,

    Murder should never been an excuse for making job opportunities. Economic gain holds no value next to the intrinsic value of life itself. And as for the whales hurting your cod populations... take your head out of your ass for a second and realize that its humans who are depleting those populations.... the whales take an insignificant percentage of those fish compared to us.

    Peace on earth for all creatures

  • lol geredwilliams....... is it a murder when sheeps, cows, pigs, etc are slaughtered???

  • I was there my self. It's not beautiful but it will help us in Iceland. Making jobs and some whales take food from other important fish that we ''live'' on. Like cod. I'm not going to explain everything about this issue on youtube but think about we in Iceland have lived for many many years.

    Take care.

    ''Eric from Borgarnes''

  • DAMN, You live in Borgarnes? That was like, my favorite place on teh ring road in Iceland. The mountians across the water are so nice, and the golf course there was fun. =D

  • Belch, after all that grilled bluber I could use a couple of gallons of port wine!

  • iceland store fishfingers are made from that eh

  • Together humans can take down the mightiest of animals.

  • Humans did that?Wow we are definatly Powerfull indeed ... wel at least in numbers lol

  • What's wrong with whaling? If they were slaughtered in a humane way and monitored to prevent overfishing of a certain species, something tells me people would still be apposed to this form of fishing. Why is that? Why can't people just treat these animals like they do any other animal that's fished/hunted for?

  • Well i doubt it would work considering most of the hunter species are either classified as endangered or, are very close to being so. For instance there are only like 30,000 - 60,000 (or something like that) Humpbacks left

  • learn learn learn. learn learn learn. the issues

  • it seriously looks tasty

  • why is this disturbing? It's already dead...

    Anyway, whale hunting is just as humane (in a lot of cases more humane) than normal hunting and slaughter of normal farm animals.

    It tastes like crap though

  • Actually, I think those whales don't even eat fish...

    Don't they eat plankton? (or however that is spelled)

  • what is wrong with you people? i was disgusted to read some of the comments people have left on this video (e.g "thoes whales eat all nthe fish in the sea, if we dont kill one of two whales! they eat very much") are you serious? please tell me your not being serious. Cruelty against whales(or any animal) is a big matter, it shouldnt be laughed at.

  • excuse me! iceland has had to cut down the yearly fishing quota of cod down to 2/3 of what it used to be (cod is our main export of fish) because the fish doesn't have enough to eat and therefore has decreased in numbers...

  • and because of this decrease in quota a lot of people are getting unemployed or already are and the icelandic fisherman, which was ones 40% of iceland's employment, is now dying out.. cod and whales are dependent on the same food in the sea but the whales seem to be more capable of getting it and obviously there is a connection between those two... killing 200 whales is not much and to comparison the USA kills about 2000+ every year and that number does not include those hunt illegally.

  • its what they eat you morons, maybe they don't want their teeth to rot and die of cancer at 30 from eating that crap they feed america

  • those whales eat the fish in the sea and if we dont kill one or two whales!they eat very much!

  • i love those hook things they use to cut up the whale

  • we got that whale before he got us.

  • Mmmmmm whale burgers! xD

    Whale stew with sauteed vegetables!

    Whale soufflen ala carte!

    BBQ'd whale with black bean sauce!

    Whale fin soup!

    Whale masala/curry!

    Whale sushi!

    Whale pizza!

    Whale.. Whale.. WHALES!!

    Yummy Whales!!!

  • what purpose does a whale dead whale serve?

  • delicious meat

  • that whale got pwnt

  • felet o fish

  • thats just sick , what they are doing to that poor animal.

  • Stupidi esseri umani.

  • slice and dice!

  • most people dont mind eating cows, pigs, chickens etc. its because they're farmed animals not wild and theres a hell of alot of them.

    many species of whales have been driven to near extinction so to take this majestic animal out of the sea that has probabally been there for 50+years is just a depressing joke. whales take some of the longest time to reproduce in the animal kingdom (one calf every few years) so to say they re produce like no bodys business is a bit short sighted!

  • they are djust big fishes with boobs.and we icelanders arent hunting them for food we are doing it fun hahaha!!

  • u r sick.