Posted on 07/16/2023 4:32:03 PM PDT by Third Person
A British cruise line has apologized to passengers who witnessed the slaughter of nearly 80 pilot whales in the Faroe Islands on Sunday. Ambassador Cruise Line guests arrived at the port in the capital of Torshavn, where a traditional hunt had turned the sea red. Hunters used motorboats and a helicopter to corral the whales in a beach nearby before dragging them with hooks and butchering them with knives.
The British cruise line quickly issued an apology to guests who were blindsided by the graphic nature of the hunt, or Grindadráp in Faroese.
"We were incredibly disappointed that this hunt occurred, particularly at a time when our ship was in port, and have offered our sincere apologies to all those onboard who may have witnessed this distressing occurrence," the company said in a statement.
Though the carnage caught the cruise line by surprise when it pulled into Torshavn, the company had been aware of the annual event. In a 2021 letter to Faroe's prime minister, chief executive Christian Verhounig expressed his dismay over a dolphin hunt that had occurred in September. That same year, the company teamed up with ORCA, a marine conservation group based in the United Kingdom, on an anti-whaling and dolphin hunt campaign.
Before the July sailing, the ORCA and Ambassador had tried to raise the issue with the Faroese government and Visit Faroe Islands, the tourism office. Their attempts failed. The cruise line also urges its guests and crew members to spurn the industry by not buying or eating whale or dolphin meat.
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By that logic, we should eschew all firearms for hunting.
They’re rather small whales.
Small or not, it should stop. Denmark should be held accountable for this occurring and should be forced to deal with it. I’ll be curious to see what the EU does about this.
The other side.
silly
They’re rather bright as well.
They’re large dolphins, actually, and classified as “least concern” so far as conservation goes. Indigenous people probably do more damage to the salmon runs on the Colombia.
Pregnant people?
Sounds like mercury poisoning. To be expected in an apex marine predator.
I’m hesitant to criticize anybody’s preferred manner of hunting. No matter what one does it can be messy and will be open to criticism. As long as they are doing it in a sustainable manner, which hopefully they are doing if they want to see their “traditions” and the harvest to keep going year after year.
I suppose they were forced to watch.
Threads like these identify the liberal leftists clearly.
As long as the whales aren’t endangered, they have every right to continue their traditional hunt.
At least they know where and how their sustainance comes from. Which is more than most Americans can say as they dig in their processed meals in front of the boob tube.
Ironic though, it’s modern society’s dumping of mercury into the ocean that may doom this hunt as the levels of this heavy metal accumulates in the bodies of the Islanders
Tuna just doesn’t taste right without the dolphin in it.
Faroe Islands are fascinating.
Not bright enough, apparently.
They find plastic in the whales stomachs so I would call anyone who complains for the welfare of the whales a hypocrite.
Weemsco Tuna.
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