Chain email ...
 

I received this email today from a relative with a bad habit of regurgitating a lot of bogus crap. . .

Here is the email:

Seems old, but true ... according to Snopes.


To my surprise, it appears to actually be true.

This is really effed up.

I remember a National Geographic article from my youth that covered this. It was quite striking, all that blood in the water. The article wasn't preachy at all, it was just documenting this tradition.

For what it's worth, they eat the meat. It's a very important food source for them. How do you feel about hunting deer in the US?

Can you imagine those dolphins running rampant, tearing up people lawns, and getting hit by cars all the time?

Culling is an important part of wildlife management.

If only we could apply culling to human management.

Depends how good a shot the hunter is really.

What's appalling here, is the number that are killed and the cruel and slow death they suffer.

I'm not sure how happy you all would be if hunters went at the deer with ropes and machetes.

No-one seems to give a damn about fish though, perhaps it's because they don't have a cute, smiling face or maybe it's just that they don't make "a grim cry like that of a new born child" while they're being killed.

The thing that shocked me about fish, was when i found out just how long some of them live. Cod, for instance. That mainstay of Fish&Chip shops throughout my childhood. Some of the fish I ate when I was 10 were probably five or six decades older than I was. Maybe even older than that.

That's why it's best to eat them while they're young.

According to the wikipedia information, they actually sever the spinal cord very quickly, the gaff is intended to bring them into the beach. Not that that makes it any better.

Yes, it's barbaric and cruel and we should all be appalled.

But we should all be appalled at the way the Japanese treat sea life, or how we treat domesticated land animals that we use for food, or at countless other examples of how we treat animals appallingly badly.
Why is this barbaric, but a lot of the rest of them aren't?

Who said they weren't?

Okay, rephrasing then:

why is the internet all up in arms about this, but apathetic to the rest of the shit?

These are apparently an endangered species for one.
Kill all the deer you want, there are too effin many of them around here.
Don't really get what you are trying to accomplish.

Again - look at Japan. They do this, except instead of a couple hundred dolphins by a buncha kids, its thousands and thousands and thousands of endangered fish and sea mammals on an industrial-fishery scale.

It's a dog eat dolphin world we live in.

well ... for one thing, they're pilot whales. Dolphins apparently have better press appeal, so they're calling these guys dolphins.

There are over 200,000 of them, and the hunt takes out around 200 or so. Isn't that like 0.1%?

What's the problem with killing all those sharks? Those kids are brave.

whale meat is pretty high up on the menu in most of the northern European countries.

I thought they looked like pilot whales, but really couldn't be arsed looking it up.

Here's an interesting response to this email:

They aren't endangered, according to Wiki. Theres something like a half million of the two types, they take a couple thousand in the Faroes and the Japs take less than 500, each year.

Pilot whales are dolphins.

Pilot whales are dolphins.

http://earthfirst.com/pilot-whales-b...faroe-islands/

http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=354

Yeah, not endangered. Those are some gruesome looking pictures I concede. And slaughtering animals is not pretty, wherever it happens, especially in a scale like this and with animals as large as this.

Yes.

"Pilot whales are among the largest of the oceanic dolphins, exceeded in size only by the killer whale. They and other large members of the dolphin family are also known as blackfish." - via Wiki.

I'd say so too. From Wiki:

But from the oceanic dolphin wiki page:

But it's a dumb distinction anyway. Animals are animals, it shouldn't factor into the argument over whether (or how) to kill them.



Edit -- Jinx! You owe me a Coke!

Why does Jinx owe you a coke?

...I can't tell if you're really asking... if not, please pretend I'm not about to be a pedantic ass just below this.

so, ah, "Jinx!" is what you say when you and someone else say something at the same time. They "jinxed" you. And the debt of a Coke goes to whoever says "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" first after the two people say something simultaneously. I dunno, it's just a thing that kids said in the 80s.

Not that I'm advocating this, but blood goes so much further in water/on snow, it's no wonder seal and sea creature hunts are always the subject of the complaints. it looks fucking terrible, but is there more blood lost than in -say- the preparation of Halal meat? It's just that that is a lot tidier, mesuspects.

Or are we shocked by which species is being eaten here? Because where do we draw the line there? How intelligent is inedible? How shall we test, and can we apply the same test and potential fate to members of the human race? Because many of them are too stoopit to live......

Some pigs are smart

SMRT...

Spiderpig, spiderpig....


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thanks bruce

If intelligence is a measure of what we can eat, I can understand where cannibalism started from.

Right.
did you just call me a pussy?

Once one becomes a man, what is the detergent recommended for removing the blood stains? Or is that women's work?

cold water for blood stains

dont ask me how I know that.

Does it involve a chainsaw accident?

the first rule of chainsaw club is don't talk about chainsaw club.

Then it was the roofing project!

Animal rights/welfare is a religion that a lot of people on the net don't dare to call into question. It's simply misanthropic and that's why the originators of this propaganda go on and on about "world shame" when it's just a tradition in some country. But oh my, some animal gets killed and these drips carry on as if they're talking about a holocaust. NG and other animal rights outfits have been known to stage this stuff in the first place.

lolnope.

My wife said the same thing this morning at the breakfast table...:eyebrow:

and the 60's

ha.

shame you missed the chance to call her by name and shush her.

My kids say it now, and they didn't learn it from me.

Oral tradition is a wonderful thing.

Do they still pass along the secrets of Chinese Jump Rope and Cat's Cradle?

cat's cradle-yes. Chinese jump rope - I don't think so. Never seen them do that.

Bet they pass on Chinese Burns though!

Miss Capri there are plenty of traditions that should cause "world shame". Female genital mutilation for one.

Big business animal husbandry in the Western world is as cruel or crueller than the slaughter shown. Why don't I post about it? Because I am not a hypocrite, I am a meat-eater and I do not trace all the meat I consume from farm to fork to ensure it has been reared responsibly. I cannot guarantee that if I buy cheap fish it is not at the cost of overfishing or the destruction of another species.

That's not to say I am immune from the shock of the pictures above. But don't insult my intelligence by suggesting this is staged, when even this thread shows a little knowledge - or reading around - would verify it as an annual event.

Not to mention male genital mutilation, and we call Chinese Burns "Indian Burns" over here.

I'm not pro-circumcision (it is certainly not the norm here) but at least it leaves men capable of enjoying intercourse.

How bout Chinese Whispers?

You know what's amazing about the Faroe Islands is their transportation network. It's a group of mountainous islands. And the road system makes extensive use of tunnels. The tunnels go through the mountains of the islands to get to the other side, and they even go underwater to link one island to another. It might not seem like that big of a deal, because hey, everybody has tunnels, except almost nobody lives there. They spend so much effort and money to connect one almost uninhabited island to another.

It's not like they have a whole lot of other, more exciting shit to do, might as well dig some tunnels.

You do a Google image search for these tunnels, and only one image that I saw had more than one car in the picture. And that one had only two cars.

Those are the mountain roads you want to ride your bike on.

:lol2:

[huge downer]IMHO killing the animals even over a couple of days is better than the practice of torturing them for years collecting bear bile.[do NOT click link unless you are prepared to be very depressed.]

Yeah, cause I'm... big on shushing?

Miss Capri, shush!

just a pun.

That bear bile story is pretty harsh.

i keep saying it out loud and i still don't get it?

That's just so damn distressing.

AH. the shhhhh's were throwing me off. I should have said it like sean connery!

You mean while slapping your wife?

I seem to remember your therapist telling you to avoid certain threads on the cellar. Did you get the OK to look at bear bile websites? Cause I'm against that.