Stop the slaughter of pilot whales in Faroe Islands, Denmark
In Denmark’s Faroe Islands, a local bloody habbit is taking place evey year. It’s the great autumn festival for the islanders.
When the pilot whales get close to the islands, the inhabitants dress in traditional costume, and are eager to receive the cetaceans.
The dolphin whales arrive in groups, there are many females with their young. They are sociable animals, they are curious and they are not afraid of humans.
Some motor boats urge the whales into the bay which is not deep. Then, Faroe Island executioners come close up with 2 kilo harpoons that are used many times on the flesh of the animal until it is immobilised. Then, they pull out the blades and cut up live fat and flesh to get through the spinal chord. The young Danes applaud while the whales cry out. Didn’t you know? Whales cry out like humans when they are being butchered.
The water takes on a beautiful colour of red blood. 2,000 whales are dragged onto the shore by the courageous inhabitants of the Faroe Islands so that they can be left to agonise. Most of them rot and are thrown back into the sea.
The pilot/dolphin whale is a protected species and the number still in existence is not known.
I invite the readers of the blog not to take a holiday in the Faroe Islands, nor to buy Danish products as long as this ignoble massacre continues.
Also end an email to the Queen of Denmark to ask her to intervene and promote this initiative on your own blogs.
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WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
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— Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have
by DEBORA MacKAENZIE
FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 200
recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic – as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
The remote Atlantic islands, situated between Scotland and Iceland, have been one of the last strongholds of traditional whaling, with thousands of small pilot whales killed every year, and eaten by most Faroese.
Anti-whaling groups have long protested, but the Faroese argued that whaling is part of their culture – an argument adopted by large-scale whalers in Japan and Norway.
But today in a statement to the islanders, chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen announced that pilot whale meat and blubber contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption.
“It is with great sadness that this recommendation is provided,” they said. “The pilot whale has kept many Faroese alive through the centuries.”
But in “a bitter irony”, they said, research on the impact of the pollutants on the Faroese themselves has shown that mercury, especially, causes lasting damage.
The work has revealed damage to fetal neural development, high blood pressure, and impaired immunity in children, as well as increased rates of Parkinson’s disease, circulatory problems and possibly infertility in adults. The Faroes data renewed concerns about low-level mercury exposures elsewhere.
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