[solarengineer]

They no longer need to hunt dolphins for food.

In fact, it is now a sport activity carried out when someone spurs Dolphins and an adhoc hunt is carried out.

Could you elaborate on the perspective that you suggest we should have? I am curious since these are sentient creatures with complex social structures that we are talking about here.

[Grustaf]

Of course they don’t “have to” hunt, they could just buy factory meat like everyone else.

But hunting is of course much more humane than meat factories. I don’t think there is anything wrong with killing animals per se, but animals farmed for meat live awful lives, hunted animals don’t.

[pvaldes]

We talk about an entire group of protected species, not about hunting. Different legal category.

In Europe is even illegal to harass them. Their fat stains all and smell for weeks and their meat is not really very good. Some similar cetaceans are treated as toxic waste when die in a beach because lot of toxics accumulate easily in the fat.

This is a strange exception to environmental laws that is basically a tantrum of a few people (50.000 against 740 millions of people) and not really justified. Economically is a waste of resources and is bad for local tourism. Moreover this animals don't "belong" to Faroese people. The same whales migrate from Senegal to Iceland. They are so Portuguese, or French, as Danish.