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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White people
The higher threshold for cultural appreciation right
I mean if they primitive do it then fine
True dat
And the emotive
How many have been to a slaughter house?
Cows are cute
And I love bulls
You want tragedy
I can show folks teen untrained uke conscripts frozen with fear just staring next to their dead fellow mid teens buddy
Staring blindly as Russian veteran troooers come over the top shooting them to pieces
They are so untrained and terrified they just freeze don’t shoot back
Like the wildebeast in the crocs jaws stare of resignation
Now that moves me
Not something I even want to try but I don’t shade others for liking it.
Faroes people can keep their traditional hunt but let me enjoy my steaks!
Are pilot whales good eating?
It is part of their diet, so I guess they like it.
—> This population (northern Atlantic population) was estimated at 778,000 individuals in 1989.
78 pilot whales seems a sustainable harvest
I want to post right now to the whiners who complain about this and then bash idiot liberals for criticizing those who eat meat.
The locals have done this forever. It is a major meat source and one they have been doing since recorded history for the area.
Now those who cry about whale hunts can go cry in their beer. The Faroe Islands DO NOT CARE!
The passengers did not know that the whales were to be served up as sushi to them.
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