barbarism or ancient custom in the Faroes

[slasherscot]

not a good day for the Calderon dolphin, not the most humane way of harvesting them if u should anyway. the rest of the photos u dont want to see

[sylvestris stew]

It's down to perception and attitudes, many people on here have been called barbaric for cutting a tree.

Personally, I wouldn't comment untill I saw it myself however the blood in the water will make it look bad, if we were to see all the blood from 1 day in the abatoir we would be shocked , but we are sensitised as it's piped away out of site.

[Jason James Gairn]

I'm a pescetarian, so mammals are out for me, I don't care one way or another if people eat whatever they want. All that matters is that there is no suffering and the killing of the animals doesn't adversely affect the ecosystem, or the sustainable population.

I don't know how they kill the dolphins, maybe you should enlighten us with more pictures. Really.

Nice red sea though.

[Jason James Gairn]

lail-alsahara.com mmm interesting that the site is entirely in arabic. Whre did you get the pics?

[slasherscot]

i ll email them to james if u want

[Jason James Gairn]

here are more pics from the same set. No need to be squeemish. Reality.

Doesn't look like fun for flipper does it?

[slasherscot]

thats them, quicker way to kill them than gaffes and hooks

[Mick Stockbridge]

Sicko,s, thats horrific. There must be a better way of killing these animals if indeed they need to be killed at all. Its probably some sick tradition.

[Jason James Gairn]

I lifted this.

 

Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or “grind” as it is known.

 

Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as ’strictly protected’ by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.

 

According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).

 

You don’t see any women in the water killing this endangered species either…

[Stephen Blair]

Sicko,s, thats horrific. There must be a better way of killing these animals if indeed they need to be killed at all. Its probably some sick tradition.

 

i am all for living off the land and sea, and to me it doesnt go on cute and cuddly. a fly that is squashed into a windscreen or dolphin that has been hammered to death, they both deserve a moment of sorrow. a heartbeat is a heartbeat. this was most probably done hundreds of years ago so the islanders could survive. but times move on, and just because you are good at killing something doesnt mean that it is right.