Petition to get Denmark to End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter's Dolphin hunting in Denmark The Cove
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Go check it out it is heart breaking, but you need to be aware of this practice!
I am having a hard time forgetting those dreadful pictures of those beautiful creatures that are annually massacred, literally, into extinction. I don’t get this ritual. The islanders of Faroe do not eat the whale meat and per the article these dolphins/whales are left to rot on the beach! “As of the end of November 2008, the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales.” This practice is a tradition for young boys to transition into manhood? Where is the challenge in that? Whales are playful, gentle creatures. Not one of those boys looked terrified to be in the water with them. I say they should hunt sharks…stand in the water with sharks and pull those stunts with them and let the whales be! At least that would be sporting and fair! What a bunch of wimps! Shame on them. Too bad we can’t load up all our trash on several hundred barges and send it as a gift to the Faroese as a statement we think their philosophies are garbage. Looking for a place to dump waste…drop it on their island…yeah I know…two wrongs don’t make a right. I am just so fired up about this I want to do something…and all I can do is educate all my Face Book friends and those in my life. What good is it knowing that these beautiful beings are being killed? We sign the petition and what is that going to do exactly? That is going to make activist groups, what? Boycott Faroese? What do they offer the world? Looks like their main source of income is fishing…explains why they would want to kill the dolphins/whales. They cut into their livelihood. I know they say ignorance is bliss, but it is also a sin! I hate this world! I can not wait until Yahweh's timer goes off!
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I'm not Faroese and I don't condone commercial whaling, but I'm very very tired of hearing the same untruths about the Grind repeated over and over again.
Please visit http://www.whaling.fo/ for the other side of this argument.
The Grind is NOT a "transition ritual" for young men into adulthood. That is a complete fabrication. It's a tradition carried down over the years, when whale was the only source of food for the people in these remote Islands. It still is an important part of their culture because every other sort of meat is imported and that can be extremely expensive.
Whaling does not show up on their GDP. None of the whale meat they consume is sold for commercial purposes, but it is consumed by the people who catch the meat itself and a fair proportion is allocated to every person on the islands, as per their birthright. Now, pollution of the water has increased the toxicity of the whale meat, so young children and pregnant women are told not to consume it. The reason? because we humans abroad are destroying the environment they live in. The Faroese have nothing to do with that.
I think people need to put this into perspective. Commercial, unsustainable whaling carried out by large ships is a problem, but isolated cases like these on populations that are sustainable may seem cruel, but to make such a judgment we have to look at the larger picture. I personally believe any higher power would have wanted us to understand the whole situation before making a judgment.
Your overreaction makes me relatively ill. Not to mention, sharks are endangered creatures. Pulling "stunts" like killing them will help nothing. The Chinese cut the fins off sharks and throw the rest of the body into the water. Why don't you talk about that instead?
You are absolutely correct…my ignorance is showing. I was just so upset by the pictures and apparently the comments under them were misleading. I apologize for not making myself clear. I was under the impression that this was a rite of passage…which to me is nothing like what our Native American Ancestors went though. I was not saying they should slaughter sharks, they shouldn’t slaughter anything to the extent of extinction! What I was saying is that as a rite of passage it would be more manly to hunt a shark… in three feet of water…standing in blood…with nothing more than a sharp blade! That was what I meant. I know Mako Sharks are on the top 10 endangered species list…I am aware of all the poaching in South Africa, and the practice of fishing with dogs for sharks. I have enlightened my Face Book friends about those happenings as well. I apologize for over reacting. Those pictures are dreadful…just awful! I wish I never saw them!
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