Pilot Whales killed in Faeroe Islands, Apparently just for the hell of it

[Mayhem]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3074626/Brutal-slaughter-of-pilot-whales.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100825-1.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100720-1.html

“One whale had five to six brutal chops to her head,” reported Hammarstedt. “The islanders basically used her as a chopping board. Her death would have been slow and extremely painful. Some whales are hacked repeatedly for up to four minutes before they finally die.”

It was equally apparent that the grind is indiscriminate and ruthless.

“Babies had been cut out of their mother’s dead bodies and left to rot on the docks,” said Hammarstedt, who photographed a number of dead infants and fetuses. “Pilot whale groups are strongly matriarchal; I can’t imagine the fear and panic that these mothers must have felt as their families were wiped out in front of them.”

The Faeroese pilot whale grind is similar to the annual Taiji dolphin slaughter in Japan, documented in the award-winning film The Cove. The main difference is that there are at least eighteen different coves in the Faeroes where a grind could potentially take place, as opposed to one cove in Taiji, making it all the more difficult to anticipate where the killings will occur or to get there in time to intervene and prevent the murders.

Pilot whales are classified as "strictly protected" under EU rules.The Faroes are a protectorate of Denmark and Sea Shepherd says the Danes are failing in their obligations by allowing the slaughter to continue.

Locals kill whales for food. A Fisheries Office spokesman said: "We use the most efficient and humane means of killing."

But Campaign Whale director Andy Ottaway said: "This appalling slaughter must end. It's an unfolding tragedy."

It is in these islands, halfway between Scotland and Iceland, that the slaughter of entire pods of pilot whales takes place. Not for profit, but because it is considered by the islanders to be fun to kill them.

They do eat some whale meat but the flesh is so contaminated with mercury that Faeroese children have higher levels of mercury in their bodies than any other people on the planet. But the majority of the whales are killed and dumped at sea, and Sea Shepherd was able to secure evidence of this waste.

Don't know why I'm bothering, but here you are. Now, let's hear about how funny that South Park episode was.

 

[PirateKing]

"Fook yoo whale!"

....Sorry, couldnt resist. :shy:

Anyways, this definitely looks bastard-ish whoever way you spin it. Poor whales.

 

[Ulysses31]

A tradition that dates as far back as the 10th century, locals in the autonomous province of Denmark slaughter and eat indigenous pilot whales every year.

More than 180 of the animals were slaughtered in the town of Hvalvik's annual event this year (2009), called 'grindadráp', which translates literally as 'grind', locally as 'pilot whale kill'.

Traditions like this need to die out, there are so many other sources of food.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...lot-whales-annual-Faroe-Island-tradition.html

 

[DJCowboy]

Normally I'd say this needs to be stopped but thanks to the show Whale Wars, I pretty much have been supporting the killing of whales

^ Thanks, asshole

 

[GregCentauro]

It's a local peculiarity foreigners will never understand. Just like the Second Amendment.

 

[Mayhem]

Normally I'd say this needs to be stopped but thanks to the show Whale Wars, I pretty much have been supporting the killing of whales

^ Thanks, asshole

Well, in the future don't bother giving any more evidence of how you're a douche. You've pretty much cleared it up in one statement. And...thanks right back atcha, asshole.

 

[DJCowboy]

Well, in the future don't bother giving any more evidence of how you're a douche. You've pretty much cleared it up in one statement. And...thanks right back atcha, asshole.

What? just because I like me some whale blubber, I'm a douchey asshole? I'm just saying that the show Whale Wars makes anyone who is trying to stop whaling, look like retards. The time where he claimed to have gotten shot? The time when two of their people were trying to get near a whaling ship but then got taken in and actually taken care of? These guys are idiots. I'm sure the bearded guy would love to suck some whale cock, too

 

[Mayhem]

What? just because I like me some whale blubber, I'm a douchey asshole? I'm just saying that the show Whale Wars makes anyone who is trying to stop whaling, look like retards. The time where he claimed to have gotten shot? The time when two of their people were trying to get near a whaling ship but then got taken in and actually taken care of? These guys are idiots. I'm sure the bearded guy would love to suck some whale cock, too

but thanks to the show Whale Wars, I pretty much have been supporting the killing of whales

I don't give a rats ass what shows up on the TV, anyone who would go from being anti-whaling to pro-whaling because of a program deserves the answer I gave you. For all the threads and subsequent replies about the ignorance of others, what makes you think that you're immune?

 

[DJCowboy]

I don't give a rats ass what shows up on the TV, anyone who would go from being anti-whaling to pro-whaling because of a program deserves the answer I gave you. For all the threads and subsequent replies about the ignorance of others, what makes you think that you're immune?

Apparently you are immune to any sort of sarcasm detection. Of course this program wouldn't change me, I still stand by what I said about the show but I don't support the killing of whales. See? That answer isn't fun or entertaining to me. That's why I responded to it the way I did. If we all just went around telling answers straight and without any sort of humorous responses or didn't say things just to offend people, this would be a shitty shitty world that I'm sure the whales wouldn't even want to be a part of

 

[Member442]

Whaling is a good source of meat. I don't have a problem if its purely for a food source, does not get wasted and is done safely. I have a problem with people doing that kind of thing for sport.

 

[Mayhem]

Apparently you are immune to any sort of sarcasm detection. Of course this program wouldn't change me, I still stand by what I said about the show but I don't support the killing of whales. See? That answer isn't fun or entertaining to me. That's why I responded to it the way I did. If we all just went around telling answers straight and without any sort of humorous responses or didn't say things just to offend people, this would be a shitty shitty world that I'm sure the whales wouldn't even want to be a part of

Well, if I owe you an apology, so be it, but I don't think I do. I saw no sarcastic tone to your post and Lord knows I've seen and heard the same sentiment from others too many times.

I am not a Sea Shepherd supporter, per se. I despise the killing of cetaceans. For the moment, SSCS is the only organization making, what I feel is, a genuine impact against it. Show me anyone else taking proactive steps to halt the killing of whales and dolphins, I'll give them a look. But no one else is. Go ahead and mention Greenpeace, but they are ineffective and irrelevant (and gutless).

And this thread is NOT an invitation for views on Paul Watson. It is a thread about the brutal slaughter of Pilot Whales by people who are only using a fraction of the gathered meat for food. Meat that is toxic, BTW. I mean, fuck! That's why there are thread titles.

 

[PlumpRump]

Am I seriously the only person who doesn't give a shit about whales? Save the whales? Why? For what? The existence or extinction of whales doesn't concern me in the least. Besides, whales are committing genocide on all the plankton and seals of the planet. For shame!

Normally I'd say this needs to be stopped but thanks to the show Whale Wars, I pretty much have been supporting the killing of whales

^ Thanks, asshole

Paul Watson is the biggest douche-hat on the planet. What does he even do on that show besides literally advocating piracy, acting pretentious, avoiding shaving and bathing and eating everything in site? Paul Watson is an obese, self-righteous fuck-bag. The Japanese whalers should include the Paul Watson whale on their list of whales that they're doing "scientific research" on.

 

[Mayhem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/arts/television/27whale.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Sea Shepherd&st=cse

What makes “Whale Wars” truly distinctive, however, is its mix of high danger and low comedy, a blend developed over three seasons by the show’s producers, Rivr Media and Lizard Trading Company. The Sea Shepherds, with their old, underpowered ships and volunteer crews, have always been underdogs to the well-financed Japanese whalers. But this season more than ever, the Sea Shepherds’ bumbling has been played up, making the show a comedy of errors punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

It could be that this emphasis on farce is a simple reflection of the Sea Shepherd reality, but it feels like a choice, especially given that two months’ worth of round-the-clock filming is being crammed into 13 episodes. Such scenes are a distraction from both the tense monotony of the seagoing life and the deadly earnestness of the anti-whaling life.

They also may be seen as a partial solution to one of the show’s abiding problems: its unavoidable one-sidedness. The Japanese whalers are a largely silent and faceless, and therefore sinister, foe. “Whale Wars” sails with the Sea Shepherds, so by definition it presents their point of view. But it goes to great lengths to be neutral in its narration, and emphasizing the whale warriors’ pratfalls is another way of undercutting our natural sympathy for them.

 

[tartanterrier]

I wish people would stop interfearing in other folks business.These folks
have probably been doing this for centuries - as part of their culture and
a food source.So just because we recently know about it,we have to play
god and save the fucking whales :dunno:

If the whales were that fucking clever then they wouldn't be swimming
around these parts in the first place would they.So I guess that is just
part of the process and it's supposed to happen.

 

[Mayhem]

OK, well using your logic, people have been killing people since the dawn of time. So just shut the fuck up about that. Gang violence, ethnic cleansing, petty crime. And if it happens to a family member or friend of yours, well if they were that fuckin' smart, they'd stay out of the way of the bullets. And hey, men have been raping women for a while too. Lets get behind that too.

And did you miss the part where the majority of the whales were not being used for food?

 

[Bearded_Menace]

What? just because I like me some whale blubber, I'm a douchey asshole? I'm just saying that the show Whale Wars makes anyone who is trying to stop whaling, look like retards. The time where he claimed to have gotten shot? The time when two of their people were trying to get near a whaling ship but then got taken in and actually taken care of? These guys are idiots. I'm sure the bearded guy would love to suck some whale cock, too

WHAT!!??:why::wtf: What the hell did I do?

 

[CadillacD]

As a hunter, I'd be a hypocrite if I spoke ill of harvesting some form of wildlife. With that said, I am a great supporter of wildlife management and hunting in any form should never lead to the extinction of a species! People who kill for the sake of killing or hunt without consern for over hunting disgust me!

 

[dbradford8589]

Killing whales for no reason is just wrong. I don't have a problem with anyone killing animals for food.

 

[LukeEl]

I just want to hunt people down, kind of like Lance Henriksen in Hard Target did, without the interferrence of Jean Claude Van Damme of course.

 

[Spleen]

Hell of it? Pffft, tell that to the Japanese.