Stop the Atrocity

Not that I disagree that this is a horrific and unnecessary act of brutality in signature human fashion, but most the people judging this are, I suspect, completely unversed in the culture and history of the Faeroe Islanders, and more so, are likely being blindly hypocritical. Also, the authors of this article have an obviously biased interest in exploiting your poor understanding of this, so you really should really take it for what it is, agreeing or disagreeing; propaganda. Remind yourself that there are always many ways to perceive any event. So, at the very least, go to Wikipedia and lookup "Whaling in the Faroe Islands" to read a surprisingly well maintained and decently comprehensive article.

So, my thoughts:
The slaughtering of these whales is organized by communities in a grassroots traditionalist fashion. Anyone can observe, videotape, disseminate, and freely discuss and criticize the process. Most of us (in the West) eat farmed animals. We shrug off the slaughtering of millions of animals on a daily basis because it takes place behind closed doors, with restricted access; most these animals are raised absent from any sense of the natural world. Enormous profits are made from keeping the gut churning scenes of factory farming out of the mass media and public eye.

There are far more horrific acts of human brutality to concern yourself with that come from within your own cultures; you have almost inevitably done something today that has contributed to the misery of another human or animal. More likely, infact, that you have done countless things of this sort today alone... And yet, with your haughty, privileged supposedly civilized values, you see red tides in some tiny little foreign island where a bunch of locals who have never done anything to you engage in a tradition (and you have no idea how willingly they engage in this either, btw; it could be that kids who don't are ostracized by their communities and peers) that bares far more organicity to it than any profiteer driven animal slaughters, and it tugs your naive heart strings.

Being humans, i would suspect that by killing animals in this way gives the individuals involved a sense of profound mortality with an awe and reverence for nature that you are probably incapable of imagining. We evolved as organized hunters; not because of the joy of murder as your shocked comments might suggest, but for the necessity to live. This annual carnage (having relatively insignificant impact compared to that of corporate fueled whaling for example) is more than a metaphor of the human condition. I think they're disgusting for doing this, but on the other hand, i recognize that I am not one to judge. For once, these people are not living in the same prepackaged, sterile world as you, and a glimpse of that scares you so much because you realize how awfully empty, meaningless, and mundane your life in this experience-devoid society we live in really is. Tap those fucking keyboards in misdirected anger now, you tedious, stumbling hypocrites.

... and no, i'm not a hunter or anything, so perhaps killing things really does just give a sense of shits and giggle and nothing more, i wouldn't really know. Meat is murder.
The saddest part of this is that this kind of whale is now considered to be unfit for human consumption by chief medical officers on the island.
This is because of the accumulated toxins inside the whales, a result of our hedonistic and industrialized lifestyles, I'd suggest. This has, over the last 2 decades, contributed to a massive drop in the scale of the killings, because it is no longer an economically fruitful endeavor; clearly it is still considered important to many islanders. Poor whales, poor people; greedy us.

If those dolphins are so smart, why do they keep dying so much?

"The whales are stoned, speared, stabbed, slashed, and clubbed by people in a festive atmosphere. This slaughter is particularly gruesome since the killing is conducted as a community sporting event with young children often participating in the killing of the visibly and audibly terrified whales."

This is really disturbing.

Send an e-mail to the Faroe Islands government:

info@tinganes.fo

This is awful, heart breaking and so unethical. And the people that do this... I wonder where else in their life they are abusive.

We have a serious problem on this planet with our ethics, treatment and perspective around animals. From factory farming practices to the whale, dolphin and seal slaughters around the world -- it is all wrong.

Where are our ethics? Where is the humane treatment? How can we expect to create a better world for people when we don't treat other life with any respect?

Everytime I see this and how the Japonese also treat these creatures, I wonder where is the christian god. I dont fall for this BS that it is gods will and he lets the humans exist on their own. If even these people believed in God what the hell warrants this cruelty to a lesser or is it a more superior creature. As civil creatures the world there are many more civil than humans and that includes our ancestors the monkey. If anyone feels offended that the monkey is his ancestor, Just imagine how the monkey would feel if he were reminded that Humans are his offspring. I think hen would immediately call for god to send another deluge to destroy this human creature and throw the dice again in hopes that the civilized human could be created. See God or somebody is playing dice and hence Einstein is wrong. God does play dice. The human race is proof, he threw a pair of snake eyes and caint maker it.

You caint call people who do this animals because animals are not cruel like humans. Humans are at the bottom of the chain of living creatures and all life entities. Humans probably call this traditional. So when humans go to war and kill it too is traditional. And only the innocent and helpless must die while the killers are left to kill again.

I'm about to cry.