Whaling in Faroe Islands, grindadrap

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Video: The whaling in Faroe Islands told from a former activist who was against the so called brutality in the slaughter of pilot whales.

Sea Shepherd said that they saved hundreds of whales in the time they were in Faroe Islands. They said compared to 2010 where several hundred whales were slaughtered in the months they were here, they saved many whales. The question is, why didn't he compare to 2008 where no whales were slaughtered all year long? or 2009 where no whales were slaughtered between end of mai to end of august?

Facts about the whaling in Faroe Islands.
1 - The whaling is not commercial, the meat is not sold to the people and is distributed free
2 - The whalers do not go out and hunt the whales, they drive them into the fjords close to a beach or similar, and then men from the beach go out and slaughter them.
3 - it is NOT a rite of passage for young people like environmentalists want you to believe.
4 - The slaugther is taken seriously, and they want to kill the whales as quickly as possible.
5 - Newer methods are being developed so that the kill can be as quick as possible.
6 - The number of whales slaughtered can be registered all the way back to 1709
7 - The number of whales slaughtered a year varies a lot, since they do not hunt the whales, it all depends if the whales swim into the fjords or between islands, and that is very random.

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[MykeHawke1]

@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?

[MrSpemat]

I don't eat any meat and I don't care about this... I eat vegetarian to say thin... most of the people who are bitching are probably eating hamburgers as they bitch... if people want to eat, let them eat..

[MegaTechnoMouse]

''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 :(

[DeirdreEmm]

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]

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.

[brandarh]

This is whats make me proud of beeng faroes !!!



[rano0672]

@sampleforyou exactly

[sampleforyou]

wel when the oceans are polluted, they can eat what they want, they die anyway

[403766]

@ContrastNY

So fuck it anything thats large in numbers is fine to slaughter in a horrific way.

[ContrastNY]

@notindieenough

pilot whale population...

iwcoffice  . org/conservation/estimate.htm

They are listed as "least concern", not threatened, not endangered, etc.