Sick Barstards!

[cookie_7]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d03_1322860142

[kmcrosby78]

WOW!!!!! How the hell is that still happening in the 21st century???? Almost makes shooting a whale with a harpoon seem humane. I don't care how long this has been a 'tradition' surely it needs to be stopped - I mean, look at bullfighting, even it is slowly being wiped out.

I wonder if Princess Mary has seen this footage of her fellow Danes .......

Cheers for posting this.

[buih87]

man thats worse than japanese whaling... to prove manhood? hell go shoot something ot slit a throat of a damn chicken. thank god we dont do any of that here. least we have a life to live.

[rayke1938]

And there are more than 2 sides to a story.

Nothing mentioned about passage to manhood says its all about a community food gathering custom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

Cheers

Ray

[jnewy]

looks to me like there having a whale of a time :sick: :evil:

[faulked]

Proponents of the hunt further argue that the pilot whale lives its whole life in freedom in its natural habitat, the Atlantic Ocean, and then dies in a few minutes, in contrast to the fate of conventional livestock such as cows, pigs, and chickens. These animals often live in captivity or confinement for their whole lives and are then subject to lengthy transportation and other stressful events before final slaughter. Furthermore, causing an animal unnecessary or excessive pain and discomfort is prohibited by the Faroese law.

[shortie]

yes, they were cutting it up for food obviously.

I dont see a problem.

Traditional Method of hunting.

[crazywalrus]

i wonder if the STUN them first

[Homer4duff]

Most part of traditional Faroese food consists of flesh. Because of the rugged, rocky Faroese terrain, grain and vegetables have not been able to grow very well as only about 2% of the 1,393 km2 is arable land and none is set aside for permanent crops.[10] During the winter months the Faroe Islanders´ only option was to mostly eat salted or dried food (this includes meat, pilot whale meat, seabirds, and fish). This means that over the centuries, the pilot whale has been an important source of food and vitamins to the isolated population on the North Atlantic archipelago.

The pilot whale meat and blubber is stored, prepared, and eaten in the Faroese households. This also means that whale meat is not available at supermarkets. Although the Faroe Islands' main export is fish, this does not include pilot whale meat or blubber. An annual catch of 956 pilot whales[11] (1990–1999) is roughly equivalent to 500 tonnes of meat and blubber, some 30% of all meat produced locally in the Faroe Islands.

/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

So even though this practice looks horrible it does/did serve a purpose and probably provided many locals with food throughout the winter months.

Whether it is relevent in the modern age where food is readily available is another topic for debate although we still allow Aborigines to kill pretty much what they like for food (dugong, turtles etc) even though they don't need to, so perhaps this is similar.

[ellicat]

I think it is fantastic that there is an animal that comes packed with sausages. :woohoo:

They should be called BBQ Whales :side:

[Bommie]

subsistence hunting

[aussie123]

It was not long ago and we were still mass slaughtering whales.

As previously mentioned we also still allow the slaughter of dugons and turtles,ect all in the name of tradition.

We also are the only country to mass slaughter/cull and eat the animals on our Coat Of Arms.

[Surfingant]

At first reading the article and seeing the first video I was pretty disgusted, after seeing the second video and realising it was obviously more to do with gathering food I don't have a huge problem with it. Sure it is not something that you really like to see but it has been happening for a long time so they must be managing it in a sustainable way. Nobody seems to care when it comes to opening a tin of tuna or unwrapping the plastic on their pack of mince or sausages, how is this any different? At least they are upfront about it, there's no "scientific purposes" about it.

[ellicat]

If only we could herd kangaroos into the shallow waters like that and then take to them with sickles. There'd be more people moving to the country for sure

[ellicat]

All these animals have a porpoise

[fishingnut]

All these animals have a porpoise

:woohoo: lmao

[Scope]

Damn this ellicat and his puns! Who will moderate the moderators I ask!!!!

[Gary_C]

We also are the only country to mass slaughter/cull and eat the animals on our Coat Of Arms.

Only because Ben Franklin didn't get his way in the US. He wanted a Turkey instead of a Bald Eagle because Turkeys were native to the US. Would have made Thanksgiving the single largest slaughter of an animal on a coat of arms every year