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Icelandic whaler defends blue whale kill (warning pics inside)
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"Almost all the meat from minke whales slaughtered in Icelandic waters is eaten by visitors to the country under the mistaken belief that this is somehow a 'traditional' dish. In fact most Icelanders never eat whale meat and tourist demand just encourages further cruel hunts. Staggering isn't it? As part of our anti-whaling campaign, WDC encourages visitors to Iceland to avoid restaurants that serve whale meat and to take a whale watch trip instead to meet these amazing whales in the wild."
Am I missing something? According to Wikipedia, whaling is absolutely traditional. Not that this makes it right, but what you posted makes it sound like a tourism invention, which I don't think it is?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Iceland
Don't understand how you see a majestic beautiful creature like that and one of the first thoughts you get is to kill it. I will never understand it
What the hell is this comment? Are you trying to police how others should feel?
Yep. It's not a fin whale and it sure as hell isn't a minke whale.
What's your deal?
Yes and no.
Whaling has been done in Iceland for a long time but it's only one company and they sell it to Japan and a few Icelandic restaurants. That company only hunts to cull and they've been running at a loss every year but the result is a fatter fish that the owner of the company hunts/fishes with other companies he owns.
Like I said earlier in the thread I've never seen whale for sale in any store in my 30 years of living in Iceland.
I don't think you need a religion to not want to hurt animals. But it's interesting to read about, thanks for the link.
I feel like, at least in developed countries, we've gotten to a point where we don't need to rely on killing them for food.
Damn, that's a hardcore lifestyle. Yeah that last sentence is a large part of it. Other things too like the agriculture industry also causes a lot of waste/ pollution.
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The ones I've met really only eat things that can be harvested without killing the plant, so, like, no onions.
I assume you just mean killing animals, then? Basically minimizing what we understand as suffering.
Except people get mad at Japan for their whaling too and they only kill higher population whales and never enough to damage the overall population.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale
People just tend to picture Humpbacks and Blue Whales when they hear about whaling but the thousand or so minke whales (Virtually all of modern whaling) killed annually do not damage their ecological status. I have eaten it several times and I thought it was really good.
Sad. Whale populations are on the ropes and people will still do this for money.
Well...50% Blue Whale.
I had no idea a Fin and Blue whale could produce offspring. Learn something new everyday.
Well...50% Blue Whale.
I had no idea a Fin and Blue whale could produce offspring. Learn something new everyday.
It's in Bónus. :l
But it wasn't in stores for a while, since we were following the IWC moratorium, before it became clear that anti-whaling nations were acting in bad faith.
Food, in this case, no?
They are, but it seems like while the company is being heavily criticized for killing those, there were no government investigations, leading me to believe that they are not protected, at least not to the same extent.
EDIT: Yeah, iceland allows hunting fin whales.
Is this dude wearing a beanie made out of human skin or am I tripping balls.
Its only guessed that there is at most 25000 blue whales in the whole world?
If you like watching slow moving train wrecks of cringe. Then yes it's great.