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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Just figured out another solution to our southern border invasion....
“...but we also learned about conservation, respecting the environment...”
I think conservation is the reason they only do it once a year.
I tried whale sushi in Japan. Not a fan.
So, you've been to Seattle?
You oughta tune in to a dope thread. Man, we’ve got a bunch of libertarian addicts on FR. Nothing conservative about those morons.
If you don’t want to see what people do, don’t go there.
There doesn’t appear to be many branches on the family trees of faro island fishermen
When you live a substance lifestyle on a remote island you opinion will matter
Whale are mammals. Fishy, lol.
Lol!
Twits.
“You know fish is great brain food!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oq7gOa8Yfg
Good timing by the company if they want to stir up sentiment and publicize the hunt to a larger crowd.
The article makes me believe the company new about the hunt but pulled into port anyway.
Even if they consume the critters? Otherwise yes, it’s blood sport in our culture, but isn’t diversity our strength?
Your post made me think about the yummy Shark Fin Soup the Asians and their friends enjoy.
Was Krispy Kreme and Stacy Abrams there?
Zero.
Don’t care.
Not my problem.
Save unborn humans.
...and tunnels. Very proud of the new island connection tunnels.
To quote the bumper sticker I had on my thunderbus,
“Nuke the gay baby whales for Jesus.”
Not only are these cretins killing highly intelligent animals, but they are doing it in an extremely cruel way. They insert hooks in the whales’ blowholes—that must be excruciating—and then drag them up on the beach by the hooks and attached chains. Then they sever the whales’ spinal cord, which I’m sure takes several blows, each of which must be excruciating. I am disgusted by their cruelty, absolutely disgusted with these people. According to the article, it now seems that eating whale meat is not healthy for humans. So what goes around comes around.
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