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[classicman]

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by classicman

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.

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.

[Ibby]

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.

[Aliantha]

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

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.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Miss Capri

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.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Ibram

lolnope.

ha.

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

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by BigV

ha.

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

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

[wolf]

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%?

[Spexxvet]

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

[Aliantha]

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.

[Aliantha]

Here's an interesting response to this email:

The Faroe Islands are not part of Denmark. They have their own parliament.

These are not Calderon Dolphins but Pilot Whales and other cetaceans such as Atlantic White-sided dolphins and Bottle-nosed Whales. In fact, I cannot find anywhere any reference to a Calderon Dolphin species.

In reviewing the figures, the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission decided that the percentage of 0.1% of current populations killed was well within sustainable limits.
In fact the number of drives has decreased from a 1709 – 1950 total of 1195 to a 2006 total of 11.

1709! Thats right. This practice has been occuring for 300 years.
Now if indeed this is a cultural practice, think of how long it will take to remove/alter this practice from the islanders lives. And these Faroe Islanders have whale meat and blubber as a staple part of their diets.

I think this is a terrible practice as well – however humans have been rearing and catching and eating meat for thousands of years.

For more information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling..._Faroe_Islands

Can we compare this to the Taiji Dolphin Massacres?
The well known Sea Shepherd Conservation Society does not mention the Faroe Islands on their site but has extensive information regarding the occurances at the village of Taiji in Southern Japan : http://www.seashepherd.org/dolphins/...-in-taiji.html

Here dolphins are bombared with sound, herded into a bay, covered with nets and killed the next day.
Not only dolphins are herded into the bay, but Pilot Whales as well.

And heres the real kicker : Killing pilot whales violates Japan’s treaty obligations to the International Whaling Commission.

Both practices seem extremely gruesome to a lot of us.
However I believe greater understanding and correctly directed protest is needed – instead of incorrect mail emails.

[Rhianne]

Pilot whales are dolphins.

Pilot whales are dolphins.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Rhianne

Pilot whales are dolphins.

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.

[BigV]

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.