| They are killed for ignorance and for making a statement against environmentalists. People sweating blood and tears trying to protecting nature. Danish have not more rights to hunt whales for cultural or historical reasons that Spaniards should have. Do you think that Faroese invented cetacean hunting? It was called Basque Whale for something. And do you know what? We stopped it. Because we wipped them. Spaniard whalers got extinct with the whales. Their children just found a different job. We admitted our mistake and changed. Almost 100 years later the Basque Whale that was common once in Europe still avoid our coasts. There are a few thousands of those whales remaining in all the N Atlantic. His japanese cousin is much worse. They are not pigs. Not even close. So what this people did is a huge "f*k you, I'm different" to the rest of Europe. Not more, not less. They don't even understand that this whales don't eat fishes [1]. We see a lot of this anti-knowledge people raising again from their caves lately. Spain is in middle of its first six generation forest wildfire and... surprise, surprise, it was deliberated. As usual just a few weeks after the Californian wildfires. A man lost his life trying to fight against this crime, so... What we can do with those kind of people? Keep trying to respect their feelings? their "my culture is special?" Trying to justify it because the bullshit "we do it for the meat that nobody needed"? NOPE [1] I know it. I have necropsied a few that stranded dead. And don't let me talk about the parasites in the meat, or about the smell. |
(That being said, it would appear they overdid this one, what with there being some 40-50,000 Faroese or so, all told - that would be an awful lot of whale to digest per capita.)
Full disclosure: I happily eat minke whale and even seal whenever I come across it. Norwegian.