#whale slaughter

[marinarawrr]

dont trust tumblr users for actual facts regarding sensitive topics like The Grind! those whale aren't endangered, "thousands" are not killed in the hunts, their bodies are put to good use (such as, yeah, consumption), and oh, yeah, the whole thing has been regulated since the 1930s to prevent any serious damage to the whales population. more are killed yearly by fishing gear not aimed for them than by The Grind, so please go check out the official Faroe website for more info!

Pilot whales aren’t endangered, no, but their conservation status has been dubbed “unfavorable,” so maybe killing around 950 (no, not thousands, but almost 1,000 which is quite significant I would argue) of them each year isn’t the most helpful thing for their conservation or the health of the oceans. It’s not even just pilot whales that are slaughtered in this event; white-sided dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, and harbor porpoises are slaughtered as well. I don’t really give a fuck whether or not their corpses are being eaten. That doesn’t mean that this horrific death by way of spinal lances and blowhole hooks (or any type of unnecessary death) is in any way justified, and tradition is a pathetic fucking excuse as well. “Well we’ve been doing it for a long time, so even though it’s super fucked up and harmful, we’re just going to keep doing it. Yanno because we’ve been doing it for a long time.”I’m also against any kind of fishing, so your arguing that fishing nets/gear kill more whales annually than these hunts doesn’t really apply here. I view that as a major issue as well, and would love for any practice that involves whales being harmed/killed by humans to stop.And yeah like I’m totally going to go to the site that is trying to tell everyone, “hey we murder hundreds of whales each year, but it’s ok!!” for facts. That’s like researching cetacean captivity by going to seaworldcares.com. That’s like researching the harmful effects of sugar-sweetened beverages by asking the Coca Cola company what their research shows on the subject. So kindly get the fuck off my blog and throw yourself into the next trash receptacle that you encounter. 

[marshilo]

The media is full of reports on the Japanese whaling crime. But what the people of the Faroe Islands are doing here is more atrocious, more abominable, and more abhorable.

[ericpaulpianist]

The Faroes Islands: cruel whale and dolphin slaughter!

 An average of 700  pilot whales and dolphins or more are brutally slaughtered in the Faroe Islands every year.  Entire family groups of whales, known as pods, are driven ashore and killed with knives.  The whale hunt, or grind as it is known, has been conducted for centuries.  It once provided important food for the Faroese population, but today it is little more than a cruel tradition that produces meat and blubber that Faroese health leaders have warned is no longer safe to eat because of the toxic pollutants that concentrate in the whales.

- See more at: http://www.campaign-whale.org/campaigns/the-faroes-cruel-whale-slaughter#sthash.iMAOVn8k.dpuf

[wotfigo]

Sea Shepherd Finds Japanese Whale Poachers In The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Sea Shepherd fleet locates whale poachers, confirms whales have been killed inside Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

5 January 2014 (SSCS) – The Sea Shepherd Fleet has located all five vessels of the Japanese whale poaching fleet, including the Japanese factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

The Steve Irwin, The Bob Barker, and The Sam Simon are now in pursuit of the whaling fleet, driving them away from their intended poaching grounds, disrupting their illegal hunt, and preparing to shut down their whale-killing operations.

The Steve Irwin’s helicopter first located the Nisshin Maru at 64°44' S, 162°34' W, in New Zealand’s sovereign waters in the Ross Dependency Antarctic region, and inside the internationally recognised Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Sea Shepherd has obtained compelling footage and images of three dead protected Minke Whales on the deck of the Nisshin Maru, taken at the time the factory ship was first located. A fourth whale, believed to be a Minke, was being butchered on the bloodstained deck. 

From; http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2014/01/video-sea-shepherd-fleet-locates-whale.html

[frogfriend]

Graphic images of Japan's whaling 'within protected waters' released by campaigners Sea Shepherd

Militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says it spotted the Nisshin Maru sailing through the protected Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary during the whaling season.

[onegreenplanet]

Shocking! Thousands of Whales Slaughtered (and It’s Not in Japan)

[theforgottendisneyland]

I hope you don't go to those horrible whale slaughters in the Faroes. They're the cruelest most disgusting people.

First of all I'll have to excuse I my bad English but I hope you understand what I am going to explain to you.  

Have you ever been to a whale slaughter and got a Faroese to explane to you what’s happening? Don't think so. If you haven't been to one or at least talked to a Faroese person about whale hunting, you have nothing to say. Yes, it looks very brutal, violence, tormenting, and looks like they are torturing the whale. The whale may look like he is suffering. So I understand, that people, that don't know exactly what’s going on, think that whale slaughter is cruel and discussing but they have no rights to judge. If you don't know the what's going on, you should familiarize yourself with the situation before you talk. 

It takes about two minutes to kill 200 whales. That’s pretty fast, isn’t it? The whale is dead in two seconds and don’t feel any pain. A slaughter is well organized and every man know what to do and how to kill a whale as fast and pain free as possible. Some of the old whale hunting gear has even been made illegal because it was believed that they damaged the whale and the whale suffered. We aren’t inhuman and sick bastards.

The whales have lived free in the ocean their entire life. The ocean is big and the whales have space enough to move around and do what they want unlike a lot of other industrialized animals you eat everyday without thinking about what has been done to them. They get pumped with chemical and antibiotics. Whale slaughter is not worse than how the majority of you get your food. You are clueless about your own hypocrisy. Do you ever think about how the chicken on you plate got there? Chicken don’t grow on trees. Often they live in a death camp along with thousands of others birds and haven’t even got 20 cm² to live in. They haven’t seen daylight their entire life. They are force-fed till they get so big that they can’t even carry their own body weight. Their whole life they are suffering. And that’s just a chicken’s life how about the rest of the animals? It’s funny how no one sets question mark with that. How is that more humanlike than killing a few whales now and then?

I saw the TS-Show Whale Wars: Viking Shores and I almost laughed all the time. It’s incredible how they can manipulate and put clips together. But the sad part is that there are only about 49.000 people who knows the truth and the rest of the crowd believe every word they get told. If you know the truth and watch a “documentary” most of the time nothing makes sense. It’s ridiculous. And because of those “documentaries” people like you, clueless and full with prejudices, starts to talk about shit they don’t know a thing about. And honestly I pity you. You have probably heard it a thousands times before but I am going to say it to you once again, don’t judge a book by its cover! If you don’t know what you are talking about, then shut the fuck up, my dear. It’s simple as that.

My advise to you, don't believe everything you see on TV, it's all just a lie. And like Coldplay said in their song, Major Minus: "So be careful cause' nothing they say is true But don't believe a word It's just us against the world And we just gotta turn to be heard"

Sincerely, Brynja