Denmark’s Gruesome Festival: Mass Killing of Whales and Dolphins To Prove Adulthood.

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This brutal bloody slaughter (See Pics/Video Below) took place in the Faroe Islands, which belong to Denmark. To initiate into adulthood it is mandatory to kill a dolphin or a whale.


The Faroe Islands, sometimes Faeroe Islands, Faroe(s), or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.
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Sickening actually.

Where is the international pressure on this front?
I suppose there are many cultures out there that practice the slaying of animals, but the pics are crude and it's savage.

One would think that a "1st world" civilization would be exempt or at least have moved on from such outdated barbaric acitivites.

Wiki backs these lame people up as well.

Whaling in the Faroe Islands has been practiced since 1584.[13] It is regulated by Faroese authorities but not by the International Whaling Commission as there are disagreements about the Commission's competency for small cetaceans. Around 950 Long-finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) are killed annually, mainly during the summer. The hunts, called "grindadráp" in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level; anyone can participate. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay or to the bottom of a fjord.

Most Faroese consider the hunt an important part of their culture and history. Animal-rights groups criticize the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary, while the hunters claim in return that most journalists do not exhibit sufficient knowledge of the catch methods or its economic significance.[14][15][16]

As of the end of November 2008 the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales.

Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The whales are eventually driven into the shallows. The islanders hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed.

The Faroese treat the hunt as a festive occasion. Children are often given a day off school.[citation needed]

According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
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f**k yoo whale and f**k yoo dolpheen!

but yeah, it is pretty screwed up.
 
This is not cool at all. I'm a huge fan of Scandenavian countries, but this is disgusting.
 
Kinda on topic - check out Captain Paul Watson's article on the South Park Whale Wars ripoff:

This particular episode of South Park titled “Whale Whores” slams the Japanese culture, but it also takes shots at American culture. It smacks down vegans and meat eaters alike, it ridicules Larry King, myself and my crew, unleashes Godzilla on the cowardly whalers, s******s at the Hiroshima bombing, massacres the Miami Dolphins, firebombs and sinks the Nisshin Maru, kamikazes the Steve Irwin, kills off my crew, wipes out the whalers, mocks television, bitch slaps the crew of the Deadliest Catch, and does all this in a mere twenty minutes of way over the top violence, racism, sexism, and every kind of politically correct ism there is in an perverse orgy of slapstick humor supporting a ridiculously silly plotline that these pathetically successful evil geniuses manage to pull off in their particularly nasty minded manner.

In other words- it was frigging great!
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http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-091103-1.html
 
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The human race is a strange one with it's cultures & religions used as an excuse to for it's barbaric practices.
 
Strange. I thought barbarians lived only in the Middle East and Africa and China.

Now we learn the first world is full of barbarians too?

Surprised.
 
This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

Not that I really wanted to see it. The pics say enough. :mad:
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNahBLkVq4[/ame]

This one works :sick:

Not much to be said about it. Suffice it to say, a similar situation to when that boat with Alaskan/Canadian seal-clubbers capsized and all aboard drowned. I smiled broadly then.
 
This brutal bloody slaughter (See Pics/Video Below) took place in the Faroe Islands, which belong to Denmark. To initiate into adulthood it is mandatory to kill a dolphin or a whale.
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Slight misinformation there. Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark, they are not, in fact, governed by Denmark, nor do Denmark's laws apply to them or vice versa. Same applies to Greenland.

The Faroe Islands have been an autonomous province of Denmark since 1948. Over the years, the Faroese have been granted control of most matters. Some areas still remain the responsibility of Denmark, such as military defence, foreign affairs and law.
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Source: Wikipedia

The brutality and savagery of this "festival" is disgusting. There is something wrong with people who enjoy taking any kind of life, and more so when it is defenceless.
 
True. Denmark doesn't really have any control of it.
Unfortunately.

But that is the only thing I can say in defence of my country.. It sickens me to know that this is happening.

It was in the news here years back actually.
I thought that something had been done to stop it, since everybody was talking about it back then and a lot of action was taken against it.
It doesn't seem like anything has affected it though.

It is in no way acceptable and can't be forgiven, no matter if it's Denmark or not.

I'm glad that this thread was linked to me.. It is brutal and outrageous and it's given some things to think about.
 
phenom said:
certainly nothing i would expect from the danes, this is outrageous.
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They are not Danes, same goes for Greenland. Neither the Faroe Islands nor Greendland are EU members while Denmark is. Both are autonomous regions under Denmark to a major degree.
 
You can see the RACISM right away. You hardly hear of Norway and Denmark hunting whales - and they do, and I've never heard of customs such as this one, but hear of whale slaughter and racist whites go all ape-__it about a handful of Japanese trawlers doing so. Yep.
 
Wait a minute there Peter. Did you just call the hippie tree hugging peaceniks racist?

:D
 
PeterCH said:
You can see the RACISM right away. You hardly hear of Norway and Denmark hunting whales - and they do, and I've never heard of customs such as this one, but hear of whale slaughter and racist whites go all ape-__it about a handful of Japanese trawlers doing so. Yep.
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I wouldn't go that far. Only one person (that I noticed) mentioned that the Japanese do it as well and it didn't, at all, seem racist to me.

I think in a lot of ways Japan sets the "ideal" perception of what we'd want a civilised world to be like, and the knowledge that they practise such barbarism as well, just goes to show that no one is immune to it and that all countries have their problems.

These kind of things put a serious dent in the perception of those countries though.
 
PeterCH said:
Were they ever any different? ;)
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To be fair most are just clueless yuppies who's sole exposure to these kinds of acts is the antics of Hayden Panettiere :o
 
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Lycanthrope said:
I wouldn't go that far. Only one person (that I noticed) mentioned that the Japanese do it as well and it didn't, at all, seem racist to me.

I think in a lot of ways Japan sets the "ideal" perception of what we'd want a civilised world to be like, and the knowledge that they practise such barbarism as well, just goes to show that no one is immune to it and that all countries have their problems.

These kind of things put a serious dent in the perception of those countries though.
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No, I wasn't referring to the poster here. That's not racism. What is racist is the high level of exposure of Japanese scientific whale hunting and Japanese cultural festival dolphin killing while the stuff our 'civilised' Scandinavian friends do falls under the radar. Of course the number of volunteers from Scandinavian nations for the Waffen SS was great too but we don't judge them on that either ;).

I don't know about ideal perception of civilised but cultural festivals going 1000s of years back should be respected too. Let's get over ourselves.
 
PeterCH said:
I don't know about ideal perception of civilised but cultural festivals going 1000s of years back should be respected too. Let's get over ourselves.
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I disagree. There are better ways to celebrate a culture and a tradition than by slaughtering lives. There is nothing admirable about a culture/tradition soaked in blood and nothing to be respected.

If they want to live in the naive and savage past then, by all means, let them feel free to do so. However, I like to think that most of society has begun to believe in animal rights and the need to protect the lives and safety of animals from the cruelty expressed by these cultures and traditions and those that take pleasure in doing so.

Religion, culture, tradition and whatever else you want to use as your scapegoat, is no excuse for (your) cruelty.
 
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