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Don’t look at the photos and video if you’re a big animal lover, it’s “a little” hard to take in…
This “bay of blood” set somewhere in the Faroe Islands is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are literally butchered alive by hungry locals. The hunt known as Grindadrap is centuries old and it hasn’t changed much since then, except for the power-boats, radios and echo-sounders which make life a lot easier for the butchers. They round the poor whales into the shore with the power-boats and when they get really close, the locals plunge into the waves and start hooking them to death in a horrific manner. Then they drag the carcasses to shore and start skinning them and splitting the meat and blubber between all the islands’ inhabitants.
The Faroes economy relies only on economic fishing, but that doesn’t give them the right to slaughter 544 Atlantic white sided dolphins in a single day, like they did in 1988.
recently, studies have shown that the meat and blubber of pilot whales contain high amounts of mercury, PCBs, DDT and dieldrin. For what they do every year these animals deserve to get much more than mercury poisoning.
April 29, 2008
Most of the participants in this crime seem to be radicals.
No real person would be limited, if this crime is prohibited by the Commission of the EU.
April 29, 2008
hopefully these whales start going mental and eating those people! a plague on sickos who would do this to a pretty whale!
April 30, 2008
Fuck you, people of Faroe Islands! Your descendants will eat their own poo on deserted lands when you devour all rhe species you can lay your hands on in the ocean
April 30, 2008
Everyone who believes in the evolution should shut up.
April 30, 2008
http://FTP. Fuck those Putos
May 1, 2008
Hmmmm…..it seems to me that you write down your feelings without considering the facts.
If the topic is “it is fair to eat animals or not?” I could understand your comments, but since the question is different, I don’t understand at all.
If you eat or have eaten some kind of meat, you can shut the fuck up immediately. I guess that more than 544 animals are killed in a small town abbatoir daily. Multiply this figure for the working days in a year, and multiply it for the number of abbatoirs in USA, and ask yourself if it is intelligent to accuse those people of murder, or not.
P.S. The Faroese kill annually a maximum of 950 animals. If you have some figure of the animals (fish, cattle, and so on) killed annually in the US, publish it! It will be interesting to make the comparison.
May 2, 2008
Shame on Faroe guys who involved into this slaughter.Even animals don’t do this.
What happends to your nature.where is the humanity?oh my god!Wake up please!
May 4, 2008
These assholes should be hacked to death! The bad karma will get these fuckers!
May 4, 2008
i nearly cry when i saw this. somebody should do smt to this island . we used to blame Japanese but now in Europe …. shame on you denmark
May 7, 2008
This i food.. Is it wrong to eat food?? What du you people eat?? Leaves or grubs??? Every animal that we eat needs to be killed… Can you believe what hamburgers used to be?? Wake up people!!! To survive we have to kill animals… Like it or not……..
May 14, 2008
ok I think this is sick! when i saw the pics and video i was shocked! its not a hunting, it is a mass murder! its important to know what the government of Faroe Islands think about this! what the normal people there thinks? where is the EU ? sick story with sick peoples!
May 19, 2008
In New Zealand when there are lots of whales stuck in a bay we all get in the water and gently help them back out to sea. Sometimes the dolphins help us too.
May 29, 2008
Just some feedback for some of these comments.
NorwegianViking - its not about being a form of food. Its a fact of humane killing. Why do we have to eat every single living thing? Why do you feel we must kill everything bar a human? why do we have more right over them? are you going to argue the usual we are smarter than them BS? Claim that all you like - they speak another launguage we do not understand.
So are we going to kill every single chinese person because they look different and speak a language we cannot comprehend.
These animals are smarter than any of us dumbass human beings will ever be.
they know TRUE survival. we just know how to wipe everything out and invade everything to the point of destroying it.
IS that what we are afraid of? the fact that something is in actual fact smarter than us.
See past your own egotistical mirror.
If people are to claim that animals are dumb then my god there are millions and millions of dumb humans in this world, do we kill them?
You have no heart and no sould to lay claim that this is justified by the fact that we must eat everything.
Really really sad and I am someone who can preach that killing an animal for consumption is cruel.
I have been a vegeterian all my life and I know that I am not contributing to the slaughter of millions of animals around the world whether its deamed humane or not.
People who kill like this are really mentally disturbed.
These animals have families and a connection to each other just as we do, imagine if that were your family being slaughtered and left to bleed to death in their own home.
June 3, 2008
speaking as a vegetarian… who cares?
I mean, honestly, I like whales as much as the next guy, but don’t waste your time with this. A few thousands are killed every year globally out of a healthy population of probably millions. At least they’re being hunted rather than raised like penned cattle for cold industrial slaughter. And some of you guys are saying that these hunters deserve death? Hypocrites.
Go worry about something useful, like the millions of people starving to death because our society eats too much beef, has too many kids, and screws up the economy of developing nations.
June 3, 2008
Humans have the absolutely same right to be in this planet as any other animal. Yes, these hunters deserve to be slaughtered by animals as well. Why? Because if there were a human massacre by whales, we would rush and kill them all.
RESPECT!
June 3, 2008
It is not the whales that are horrifying, or even their deaths. It is the humans.
June 3, 2008
Those dirty whales had it coming! Death to all who oppose us!
June 3, 2008
THATS FUCKING AWESOME!!!
June 3, 2008
Animals exist for our use & benefit.
June 3, 2008
that’s just gross
denmark .. some traditions grow outdated and should be stopped.. maybe in the past this was the big hunt that fed the villages for most the year but .. seriously .. who can justify it these days?!
June 3, 2008
This may seem cruel but the meat is going to good use and very little goes to waste. Man is not above the food chain. Also this method of fishing is much better for the ecosystem than dragging nets along the bottom of the ocean.
June 4, 2008
“Humans have the absolutely same right to be in this planet as any other animal. Yes, these hunters deserve to be slaughtered by animals as well. Why? Because if there were a human massacre by whales, we would rush and kill them all.
RESPECT!”
How many of you own an item made of leather? Are your shoes leather, a jacket perhaps, or maybe a chair or the upholstery in your car? Have you ever eaten meat or chicken or fish? You know your ancestors ate meat to survive? You know other animals eat other animals to survive? You’re a fucking animal. That’s fucking life. Again, I say all of this as a vegetarian… I don’t kill to feed myself, yet I accept that some do and some have to.
Have some respect for your brains and use them.
June 4, 2008
You’re a smart one “barney”
Why don’t you rather talk about bullfighting? Now that’s torture! Or maybe cows and pigs at slaughterhouses, that’s fucking cruel! These whales are killed in a humane way, and die within seconds. These methods are modified through generations, and are today painless for the whales.
Get a life!
June 4, 2008
Dear EJ,
you are stupid or what?
Re read my posting please, or take reading lessons…we are o the same side!!!!
June 5, 2008
No you misunderstand me, I didn’t mean “why don’t YOU talk… ” I ment the others.
June 5, 2008
You misunderstood me, I ment the others, not you.
June 5, 2008
Let me start with the basics:
I am Faroese, I live in the Faroe Islands.
“This “bay of blood” set somewhere in the Faroe Islands is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are literally butchered alive by hungry locals.”
- Hundreds through a whole year yes, but not thousands, I have never yet, seen or heard of the number 1000 whales killed. Also the whales are not butchered, the ways of killing them has been changed, and there are now certain ways that are allowed in killing them. These rules are fairly new, and are made to make the time for the whale to die as short as at all possible.
“The hunt known as Grindadrap is centuries old and it hasn’t changed much since then, except for the power-boats, radios and echo-sounders which make life a lot easier for the butchers. They round the poor whales into the shore with the power-boats and when they get really close, the locals plunge into the waves and start hooking them to death in a horrific manner.”
- Yes, the Grindadráp is centuries old.
- Yes, the boats have gotten radios and echo-sounders
- But did you know, that not one person or boat in the Faroes sails around to find these whales? When a boat or a person by chance sees whales within the islands, a message is sent that there is grind there and there. If there has been a certain amount of Grindadráp in that area that year, the whales are hunted out of the bay, and not in it. If you don’t believe me, then check the facts.
“Then they drag the carcasses to shore and start skinning them and splitting the meat and blubber between all the islands’ inhabitants.”
- Yes, we do share the meat. It is also being shared to hospitals, elderly homes, and every inhabitant, not just rich ones, that could by it, but everyone. No one sells the whale meat, it is being given, a tradition from centuries ago, you could almost call it solidarity between the inhabitants.
“The Faroes economy relies only on economic fishing, but that doesn’t give them the right to slaughter 544 Atlantic white sided dolphins in a single day, like they did in 1988.”
- And how many in total for that year?
“recently, studies have shown that the meat and blubber of pilot whales contain high amounts of mercury, PCBs, DDT and dieldrin. For what they do every year these animals deserve to get much more than mercury poisoning.”
- Thank you for that!
And for those of you, that have commented on the text and pictures, and can’t even write your name here - I just can’t take you seriously.
- Tina K. Jakobsen
June 9, 2008
it’s as barbaric and disgusting as fur trade in China!
It shouldn’t exist!
Sorry, Tina is not a right reason…. because this kinda fishing is so atrocious and unbearable!
June 12, 2008
btw, don’t think they are dolphins, it’s pilot whales, but if we had dolphins, we’d kill ‘em too. smart food for smart people. rofl… just kidding.
as mentioned before, there are lots of these whales, we usually catch a few hundreds in total every year, its an extremely small part of global stock.
now if it was the blue whale or some other animal that is nearly extinct, i could understand your wrath, i really dont understand why you think this animal is more special than a chicken, a sheep, a goat, a cow or any other animal we butcher millions of every year for food.
they’re not that clever, even a dog is more intelligent, most of you cityfolk have a distorted image of these animals (maybe because of movies like free willy etc, thats a guess)
if this is cruelty, then hunting deer for food is cruelty, going fishing for the weekend is cruelty, shall i continue? not to mention the extreme cruelty af raising cattle and pigs for food, a lifetime of torture, the killing itself could last hours, these whales are dead within 8 seconds. even if its “recreational” hunting, the people are extremely skilled at this. and by the way, when the swim up the beach, we put a device on them now - to drag them up, it does not hurt them (in old days we just hacked i giant hook in them) when they are close enough, a man with a specieal knife cuts down the spine, it dies right away…
there are lots of fact about this grindadrap elsewhere on the net, in stead of cursing us to hell, why don’t you read a bit about it, and then maybe express yourself, i can easily spot that most of you dont know shit about it, dont let stuff like the initial post of this thread misguide you.
/regin
June 24, 2008
how dare them to kill the whales..!!!
the all devils!!!..they dont have a heart!!…
they look a mam but they are not a human!!..
were are the humanity there!!..agaggggrrrrrr!!!!
July 11, 2008
I cant believe it!!
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this is not fair, the whales cant run away from you bastards
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/poor things,
August 1, 2008
people have been doing this to whales for thousands for years. only 100 years ago americans where doing it for oil, and beauty supplies. i dont like the killing of the dolphins in such large quantity. but the big whales, its only one or two lives being taken. one of those whales can probably feed a town for a month.
August 15, 2008
Hating the Faroese for hunting the same animal that they have hunted for food since viking times with high-minded and high-nosed ideas of what constitutes ‘humanity’ seems oddly hypocritical and ethnocentric. Since many of you cannot seem to understand English very well, I’d assume that you come from a different culture than the one being heinously misrepresented here. How would you like it if another culture were to insult one of your oldest practices? Even go as far as to wish YOUR collective deaths? This seemed to work well for colonists right? I mean, “we the enlightened have the fucking RIGHT to impose our moral compass and tendencies on others”, right? Of course not! One might wholeheartedly believe killing animals is morally repugnant — that is your right. However, hate isn’t a very good vehicle for any kind of moral change of heart, and self-righteousness leaves a bitter taste in people’s mouths. The average knee-jerk reaction and polarizing comments don’t help the main situation, which is: there are people that hold completely different ideas of what right and wrong, human/inhuman and culturally acceptable/unacceptable are. The main thing one should think of here is that the people in these photos DO NOT think what they are doing is wrong. What do YOU do that you think is completely normal, yet considered diabolical in another country? There is too much give and take, push and pull in this world to really be convinced one is the ideal human being to show everybody else how it’s done — that’s a kind of twisted vanity I’d prefer not to entangle myself in.
August 26, 2008
thats some good eating
August 27, 2008
they don’t feel anything!!! they instantly die!!! how can you be that sure? if my brother is been shot in the head just in front of me, he would instantly die, maybe yes, but me, standing on his side, I’ll surely have the trauma of my life. this is exactly what must happen with these whales. they myst hear the stress call of their dying brothers. that should be horrendous.
Human being is the most dangerous virus ever existed on planet earth. we must be annihilated.
PS: the sooner the better.
September 25, 2008
It is hard to beleive that there is people like you…..I wish you die the same way as those indefense whales…. I wish you a long and extremely painful death…. y que te corten los huevos…….
October 3, 2008
Here is the good news. We know who the criminals are. We know where they live. Time for some action.
October 10, 2008
You cant include human survival in here. Although we DO need meat and fish to survive, those we eat are animals specifically raised for such purpose, and are killed in a painless and quick death. You cant say the same of those whales. And if they actually needed them to support the island economy, they would not fish them just once in a year (pretty much like in a festival or something). Actually the races that kills beacause of need, respects and jealously watches over the food source (in case they start to run out) since they understand the simbiotic (and thereof beneficial) relation implied. And on top of everything i wrote before, is the fact that they are at risk of extinction. So considering all that you can think in this much like hispanic’s bullfights. So i think we should strongly reject that kind of behavior.
Sorry for my bad english
October 14, 2008
you guys are beyond stupidity……. first understand the world and then talk be a nice guy and talk about it…… u r a vegetarian right???? plants only lack 2 of the 5 basic senses of other animals…… plants are also living things………. God forbid if ur brother or sister or a relative couldnt see or hear, that means they lack 2 basic senses……… does it mean that u will kill them and eat them……… the world itself is a place for survival….. but not with an act of cruelty……
there are many ways to kill an animal………. definitely its not the way they do it in faroe island…… imagine u r looking at ur family being hooked and slayed till they bleed to death before ur eyes…… if that is cruelty than what u guys do is cruelty too……. i know a bit of humanity i guess………. i guess we all do……… trying to act blind to the massacre infront of u is just sad………… and all u people from iceland and japan n denmark and all the other places who justify this act……. i guess u enjoy the scene its a festival for all of u………… guys u dont need to do this anymore i guess u r more than self sufficient with traditional fishing rather than killing these animals like this…………
October 31, 2008
Thanx rebecca, any of them dumb brain-less guys go cannnball and wipe out us chinese and they BETTER NOT MEET ME! They have to learn what the meaning of dain HARMONY really is, is it go on a rampage and make everything but the himan race extinct? no! Plus, i hope all those guys all die from poisoning from the whales blubber and fat! That’ll show them!
October 31, 2008
Those kick-ass idiots have NO RIGHT whatso ever, to kill those animals, would you like it if you were a whale and you heard a disstressing call and went over and found…. 544 odd whales dead and being skinned with the sea stained with blood? I dont think so, so why do it to them! There is no point, yes,we all have SOME humanity in us, theres no denying that, but do some people have to go to extreme? Do people have to wipe out every race, because they SEEM dumber than them? Or look differant? Or speak a differant language? They’re all just damn scared that those intelligant animals will get smarter than them damn it!
What does it matter? The man has no match, well, yeah. The MAAAAN has a real MAAAAATCH, going by the name of MOTHER NATURE! And if anyone dont like that they can pack their stuff and fuck off! And get past ME and an angry mob!
October 31, 2008
Rock on! That comment really put people in their place, especially at school when i told my friends, a grouo ‘o’ boys who i play with, they fell about laughing, well, all i cn say is, they got a right punch up the ass litterally! Yes, i eat meat, but i eat limited. i dont eat bacon, sausages, goat, i might even go veggie! But anyway, thanx for making a differance xxx and all those people who dont like this forum can fuck off!
November 9, 2008
Barney, while your point is valid to a certain extend, your statement falls down when you don’t consider that animals heading for the abbatoir are domesticated and their population is carefully controlled - there is a zero percent chance of cattle becoming extinct, or a shortage of cattle disrupting the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Coupled with the fact that in an abbatoir the animals are killed quickly via use of a bolt gun, not killed using hooks and allowed to bleed to death. Ergo it’s blatantly obvious you cannot compare these two very different situations of obtainig food.
Also - viking - to survive, we don’t NEED to kill animals. It is possible to survive without killing animals… and no, i’m not a vegetarian.
Xe, the population of these animals isn’t millions. It’s about 200-300,000 individuals.
EJ, i think maybe you need to remind yourself of the definition of humane…
Tina, thank you for correcting some facts and giving people more information so they are able to make fairer opinions.
Those of you who just make pointless statements about waking up, at least make the effort to back up your statement with some reasoning.
People like Iceland, Garret and poop, you are a pointelss drain on our planets resources. I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
Ok, i’ve become bored of individually typing out what i think of the other comments. Just thought i’d share some of my thoughts…
November 12, 2008
Thankyou Chris as a vegetairian (turned one last night after disscusion of animal slaughter with mum) i think your statement puts the pointless ones in their place.
Yes, i dont like the thought of Knackers, Slaughter houses, or the abbatoir, but seeing as i cant change history - no matter how dreadfully horrifiying, i might as well fight for the present.
Just to make this clear, NO ONE can make me change my mind, i am NOT that sort of girl, so if you try, you’ll just get put in your place and looked like an idiot. Thanks.
I stand, for what i beleive, if YOU dont like that, then tough luck.
These people deserve to be poisened by high MERCURY levels, thats a fact. Look at the picture, hard and close, about 3 quarters of the sea in that picture is stained red, why? Because of merciless slaughtering of pilot whales, for NO absolute reason.
I know its been going on for so long, but havent you noticed, after all these years? They die because of high mercury, and they still insist on eating these lovely graceful animals, when the bee is stinging you, why keep poking it?
Just stating my opinion.
November 14, 2008
Jen, if you check this reguarly, its more than just ‘1 or 2′ lives, it was once 544! thats more than enough to feed a simple ‘town’.
Any of you fighting FOR the killing of these whales, dont even TRY putting your silly statement, ‘we kill more animls (ie cows, pigs etc) than faroese kill whales’ because that ‘we’ doesnt count ME i am strictly veggie!
Matthieu please i would find it more comfortable if you didnt talk so badly about china, only being part chinese i still feel strongly for my rights.
November 16, 2008
It appears to me that if we compare to the ideal slaughterhouse (which does not exist) this event is worse in two aspects: 1) the animals being killed are highly intelligent and if one looked closely, similar to humans in many ways such as family bonds and communication with each other, and 2) the killing is brutal painful, with no effort to acknowledge the animals’ suffering.
Now, I am not a vegetarian, but I am also aware of how the animal industries including ocean fishing, are destructive. I do eat meat sometimes, however, partly because of the people I am with. Yes, that could be a whole other debate…
It appears to me likely that these islanders have become hardened and do not realize what they are doing. I will not claim to be “holier” than them, as we all take life on this planet, even by walking and accidentally crushing an insect. There is more of a difference of degree. The lack of awareness of animal suffering is saddening - I think it also exhibits lack of self-awareness. One buddhist master said to a question from a professional bird killer in Japan some centuries ago: “Don’t worry about your work killing birds, as long as you kill yourself each time you kill a bird.” We must feel connection and compassion to all animals and life, even those we may eat, and to minimize the suffering we cause. That is my feeling.
November 16, 2008
You’re the only person that has given an answer that makes any sense. Thank god someone has some brains.
January 15, 2009
People are just scared that there might actually be some creature on this god dain earth that has intelegence to match it. Why do people poach elephants? Its cruel, but it still happens. So why do people kill piolet whales? I know they’ve been doing it for ages but still…havent they noticed most of the people that die around that time must have Mercury poisoning?
Humans have to destroy everything that is good and pure, dont they? The only evil in an animal is what man has put there. Animals have no sins. We arnt just polluting the earth, we’re polluting them to. Animals suck as the piolet whales have heart of pure gold, and a mind of silver, but some people just cant see beauty in these creatures, can they?
Every thing on earth has a soul, has a name, has feelings. Just becuase it doesnt look and think like you, doesnt mean its not equal. We’ve given creatures such as dogs/cats/horses a chance, so why not these creatures too? Dont they deserve mercy?
January 15, 2009
FIGHT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!! >:)
January 18, 2009
Thats just cruel.
June 5, 2009
This is only cruel because you are humanizing the dolphins in your mind. When I go to a lake, throw in a fishing line and wait for a fish to bite the hook, I pull back with a quick thrust and jab a sharp barbed hook into the fish’s cheek. Most people do not consider fishing cruel, but if you treat those fish like humans, fishing would be illegal. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong the truth about nature is that we are successful because our nature is to kill. We are predators, and we should think and act like predators. Bears have no moral qualms about killing something when it is hungry, why do we? Our species has the largest pack size of any terrestrial animal, and one of the advantages of a pack is to kill more efficiently. These people are prime examples of why we are the dominant species. Bloody nasty and cruel, call it what you will, but the nature of man is every bit a part of nature as the herbivore plains animals. If you believe that men and animals are no different, the you should not judge us differently than a shark, if you believe that men are better than animals, you should have no remorse for the animals we slaughter.
June 9, 2009
It’s only natural to kill animals! And besides, dolphins deserve death, fu*king gay whales!
June 25, 2009
I sincerely hope one day that a freak mass of renegade sharks smells that blood one day and eats them all D: Oh yeaaah, mankind is sooo intellectual and waaay past our primitive ancestors and their brutal, pointless, testosterone driven antics… ><
June 25, 2009
MR. T for the fuckin win!!!