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ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS CONDEMN FAROESE PILOT WHALE HUNT
| “The Faroese Government is ignoring the terrifying health warnings of its own Chief Medical Officer. Allowing around 85 tonnes of toxic meat and blubber to be consumed by the islanders is astoundingly irresponsible.” Jennifer Lonsdale, Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency |
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London, 29 May 2009 – Twenty-two animal welfare groups from around the world today fiercely condemned the Faroese government for allowing a grisly hunt for 188 pilot whales this week – putting both the whales and Faroese consumers in danger.
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In a hunt, known as a ‘grind’ in Hvalvik on 23rd May a large family group of whales – including calves and pregnant females – was driven by boats into a cove where they were crudely killed in the blood of their pod mates. Pilot whales are known for their highly social behaviours and close-knit family groups.
The opportunistic hunts take around 1,000 pilot whales each year. Whilst hunts traditionally met subsistence need in the islands, this has not been the case for decades. It would seem that hunts are conducted partly as a sporting ‘rite of passage’ for young men.
Claire Bass, Marine Mammal Programme Manager for the WSPA, said of the hunts “Subjecting intelligent and extremely social animals to this sort of treatment is like something from the dark ages. ‘Culture’ and ‘tradition’ are simply not an excuse for this sort of cruelty in civilized societies.”
Recent research has confirmed that hunts are bad for the Faroese people, as well as the whales. Meat and blubber from the whales is highly contaminated with organic pollutants including PCBs and heavy metals, such as mercury.
Research undertaken in 2008 by Syddansk University in Denmark revealed that consumption of pilot whale meat and blubber is clearly linked with Parkinson’s disease - the Faroese are twice as likely to develop the disease than Danish people. The meat has also been linked to other defects such as foetal abnormalities, heart defects and developmental problems in children.
In response to these findings, on 8th August 2008 the Faroese Chief Medical Officer wrote an open letter to the Government stating that “pilot whales today contain contaminants to a degree that neither meat nor blubber would comply with current limits for acceptable concentrations of toxic contaminants…” Despite this unequivocal warning, meat and blubber from this week’s hunt is being prepared for human consumption.
Jennifer Lonsdale, Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency said “The Faroese Government is ignoring the terrifying health warnings of its own Chief Medical Officer. Allowing around 85 tonnes of toxic meat and blubber to be consumed by the islanders is astoundingly irresponsible.”
Perversely, the Faroese Tourist board promotes the islands for their nature and states on its website that “The protection and preservation of the natural environment and of the animal life in the Faroes is important, not only with regard to the tourist industry, but also for the country as a whole.”
Mark Simmonds, the Science Director at WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, concluded ‘It is deeply saddening that these hunts continue in European waters. There is considerable suffering by the whales and dolphins taken in these hunts and there is no need for the whale meat in the Faroe Islands.”
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WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 2008) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
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-Ends- Non-governmental organisations condemning the hunts include:
Animal Welfare Institute (USA)
Bluevoice (USA)
Campaign Whale (UK)
Centre for Dolphin Studies (South Africa)
Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit (UK)
Dyrenes Venner (Denmark)
Environmental Investigation Agency (International)
Eurogroup for Animals (Europe)
Fundacion Promar (Panama)
Dyrebeskyttelsen Norge (Norway)
Humane Society International
Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (Israel)
Marine Connection (UK)
Mammals Encounters Education Research (MEER) (Germany)
OceanCare (Switzerland)
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (UK)
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (South Africa)
Unidad Especial de protección y Rescate Animal (Costa Rica)
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (International)
Whaleman (USA)
Fundacion Cethus (Argentina)
World Society for the Protection of Animals (International)
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at 07:35 on October 28th, 2009
those who animals in the name of jobsworth,are in my veiw are employed to murder.
at 06:09 on October 29th, 2009
FAROÉ ISLANDS, CONSOLES DENMARK - CASE OF POLICES AND JUSTICE!
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at 09:48 on November 3rd, 2009
BATH OF BLOOD!
In July of 2000, the organization Sea Shepherd, that dedicates it to protect the sea forms of life, sailed until the Feroe Islands to intervine in the annual slaughter of whales pilots. It better obtained that the slaughter was taken to the first pages of European media e, that this, started to make economic pressure on the company that still bought foods of the sea with origin in the Feroe, what it represents 90% of the local economy, with predominance of the purchases made for the dutch giant Unilever. “Above of 20 a thousand points of European sales the retail they had cancelled its contracts of fishes the order of the Sea Shepherd”, informs the vestibule of the entity.
FAROÉ ISLANDS = CONSOLES OF DENMARK = BATH OF BLOOD! One day in shouts and with broken spirit, I promised the souls of the whales that would go defend them!
at 09:59 on November 3rd, 2009
To Her Royal Highness Margrethe II, please stop the whales massacre in Fær Øer. Kind regards. Fermate il massacro di balene nelle isole Fær Øer.
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at 05:32 on November 5th, 2009
End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands! Target: Prime Minister Jóannes Eidesgaard Sponsored by: John Koehler
Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.
Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living 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 blood-stained bay is soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales.
The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere of entertainment. Indoctrinated from an early age, children are often given a day off school to watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses of slaughtered whales.
Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.
Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.
The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
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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La ferocia dell'uomo: la strage dei cetacei in Danimarca nelle isole Feroe
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mm (not verified)at 16:24 on November 13th, 2009
Please, stop the whale massacre.. To the government who is responsible for taking care of wildlife animals and other living creatures, please do something to caught those people who killed whales. To the people who massacre them, I believe you won't go to heaven when you die. If you were the whale and someone will going to kill you, what do you think you'll feel? God will give justice to them. I swear!
at 14:32 on November 18th, 2009
Whale massacre in Europe
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Whale massacre in Europe
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Don’t look at the photos and video if you’re a big animal lover, it’s “a little” hard to take in…
This “bay of blood” set somewhere in the Faroe Islands is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are literally butchered alive by hungry locals. The hunt known as Grindadrap is centuries old and it hasn’t changed much since then, except for the power-boats, radios and echo-sounders which make life a lot easier for the butchers. They round the poor whales into the shore with the power-boats and when they get really close, the locals plunge into the waves and start hooking them to death in a horrific manner. Then they drag the carcasses to shore and start skinning them and splitting the meat and blubber between all the islands’ inhabitants.
The Faroes economy relies only on economic fishing, but that doesn’t give them the right to slaughter 544 Atlantic white sided dolphins in a single day, like they did in 1988.
recently, studies have shown that the meat and blubber of pilot whales contain high amounts of mercury, PCBs, DDT and dieldrin. For what they do every year these animals deserve to get much more than mercury poisoning. Para aproveitar ao máximo o Flickr, você deve usar um navegador que permita JavaScript e instalar a última versão do Macromedia Flash Player. Comentários
é algo chocante isso, Miriam..
onde acontece essa matança de baleias.?
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Olá Marcos!
Essa Chacina e massacre, com baleias e golfinhos, acontece em Faroé Islands, CONSOLES DA DINAMARCA, conhecida também como Ilhas Faroé e Ilhas das Ovelhas.
É um verdadeiro banho de sangue, e, tudo isso para cumprir uma tradição. UM RITUAL DIABÓLICO... que acontece há mais de 1.200 anos. E tudo acobertado com uma legislação da caça à baleia.
E, o pior, esse ataque é feito em centenas de uma só vez, quando as baleias chegam para procriar.
Os faroenses matam as famílias completa. É UMA TRISTEZA!
As crianças brincam em cima das baleias agonizando.
São verdadeiros MONSTROS HUMANOS...
Dinamarca: fábrica de monstros!!!
Ilhas Faroé = Ilhas das Ovelhas = Faroé Islands.
Assista a esses vídeos:
lhas Faroé, Fábrica de monstros.
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Faroe Whale Cull - Faroe Islands
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at 19:54 on November 18th, 2009
Gourment Food Fears
Shanghai Star. 16 May, 2002
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A fishmonger cuts fresh whale meat at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, the world's biggest. Some 2,314 tons of fish worth over $16 million are sold here daily.
CAUTION: whale meat is hazardous to your health
Smaller species such as pilot whales, Baird's beaked whales and dolphins, are not subject to IWC restrictions.
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Levels for PCBs ranged from 0.8 parts per million (ppm) for pilot whale blubber up to 8.9 ppm for dolphin meat and blubber, compared with the 0.5 ppm maximum permitted.
High concentrations of mercury and cancer-causing dioxin were also found.
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Gourment Food Fears
Shanghai Star. 16 May, 2002
whalemeat
A fishmonger cuts fresh whale meat at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, the world's biggest. Some 2,314 tons of fish worth over $16 million are sold here daily.
CAUTION: whale meat is hazardous to your health
www.whales.org.au/news/afoodfear.html
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at 06:45 on November 19th, 2009
CALDERONES, CRUEL MATANZA EN LAS FEROE
AUNQUE PAREZCA MENTIRA AÚN HOY EN DÍA SE SIGUE REALIZANDO CADA AÑO ESTA BRUTAL, DANTESCA Y SANGRIENTA MASACRE EN LAS ISLAS FEROE, LAS CUALES PERTENECEN A DINAMARCA. UN PAÍS SUPUESTAMENTE 'CIVILIZADO' Y QUE PERTENECE A LA UNIÓN EUROPEA.
PARA MUCHOS ES DESCONOCIDO ESTE ATENTADO A LA VIDA, A LA SENSIBILIDAD, A TODO. EN ESTA MASACRE SANGUINARIA PARTICIPAN LOS MOZOS PARA 'DEMOSTRAR' QUE ENTRAN EN LA EDAD ADULTA (¡!) ES ABSOLUTAMENTE INCREÍBLE QUE NO SE HAGA NADA PARA EVITAR ESTA BARBARIE QUE SE COMETE CONTRA LOS CALDERONES, UN DELFÍN INTELIGENTÍSIMO QUE TIENE LA PARTICULARIDAD DE ACERCARSE A LAS PERSONAS POR PURA CURIOSIDAD.
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at 11:31 on December 10th, 2009
Whales and Faroese consumers in danger. >>> PSICOPATAS - FAROENSE = ILHAS FAROÉ, ILHAS DAS OVELHAS - CONSOLES DA DINAMARCA - FAROÉ ISLANDS = DENMARK
FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 2008) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
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ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS CONDEMN FAROESE PILOT WHALE HUNT
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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the reigning monarch of the Faroe Islands. To Her Royal Highness Margrethe II, please stop the whales massacre in Fær Øer. Kind regards. Fermate il massacro di balene nelle isole Fær Øer. by
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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the reigning monarch of the Faroe Islands.
Save the whales! STOP Commercial whaling!
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ATTEMPTED AGAINST THE LIFE OF TOURIST, DECEIT, PRACTICAL CRIMINALS, FRAUD, DECEIT, MANIPULATION, ROBBERY, MURDER, SLAUGHTER, STOP, STOP, STOP!
To Her Royal Highness Margrethe II, please stop the whales massacre in Fær Øer. Kind regards. Fermate il massacro di balene nelle isole Fær Øer.
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SITE OF FAROÉ ISLANDS DIVULGES THE MEAT OF THE WHALE
CONTAMINATED FOR THE TOURISTS!
IT LACKS THE ZEAL TO IT FOR THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE?
WHERE THEY ARE THE COMPETENT AUTHORITIES?
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FOOD FROM THE CLEAN WATERS
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What was it like before? Roast lamb with potatoes and gravy was the traditional food served for a special occasion and is still considered to be the finest food that can be served for guests and special celebrations.
The food culture on the Faroes was not very extensive in days gone by. In an isolated society with a harsh climate and a nature not to be relied upon, it was necessary to live off what was readily available; sheep from the fields, birds from the mountains, fish and whales from the sea. There was also food which could be gleaned from the poor soil such as grass for the cows, corn, swede and eventually, potatoes.
With limited connections to the outside world self sufficiency was vital. Everything had to be utilized and it was said that everything from a sheep could be eaten, even the ‘rukkulakkin’, which is the third stomach of a ruminant. Only the stomach contents and the gall were considered not fit for consumption!
The most important question was how the food could be preserved and this is where the typical Faroese outhouse with its wooden walls comes into the picture. The meat was hung up to dry for a short or long period and due to the high salt content of the air the meat would not rot. ‘Ræstkjøt’ is meat that has been hung for a couple of months to mature before cooking and ‘Skerpikjøt’ is the special Faroese delicacy that has been hung for over a year and is eaten raw.
Fish has also been dried in the same way and eaten as ‘ræstanfisk’ or ‘turranfisk’. Fish has never been considered such a precious commodity as meat and consequently is normally dried out in the open. Even in modern housing developments it is common to see saithe or small cod hanging up to dry under the eaves.
Fish was the staple food, the foundation of the daily diet. But where are the fishmongers? Where is all the fresh fish from one of the cleanest oceans in the world? ask the tourists. The answer is simple, fish isn’t something you buy; you catch it yourself or get it from someone in the family or someone you know who has a boat. Nowadays it is possible to buy fish direct from the small fishing boats down on the quay in Tórshavn or from the big supermarkets, but old habits die hard; that dinner was not something to be bought, but something to be brought home without it costing any money.
Another important provision was and still is whale meat, which can often be found hanging next to the dried fish under the eaves. The pilot whale was considered God’s gift. Nobody knew when or where a school of whales would appear but it meant food for a long time and if it was possible to drive the whales towards the beach then everyone would benefit, rich and poor, young and old. Everybody got their share as is the custom to this day.
Whale meat, blubber and potatoes in their skins were put in the saucepan with salt and boiled for an hour; this was a nutritional meal which needed no recipe from a cookbook. It could not be found on the menu of a restaurant either. On the rare occasions people ate out, it was to sample something special from the international cuisine like Danish roast pork.
For this reason it is still hard to find Faroese food on the menu but over the last few years many changes have occurred. The number of places where food is available has increased dramatically, cafés and pizza restaurants are springing up everywhere, tastes are becoming more international and experimental; hotels and restaurants are realising that eating out can be a cultural experience and an aesthetic pleasure.
When you can serve fresh Faroese fish in Paris or Rome then it should be possible to serve it in Tórshavn. That is the opinion of visitors to the islands for the first time and increasingly the view of Faroese who travel abroad or return home after completing their educations. Amongst the latter are young chefs who have studied abroad, their influence can be seen on the various menus where Faroese words take on a French association.
Although dishes such as ‘whale in prune sauce’ and ‘stuffed puffin’ are still to be developed, other dishes like ‘coquilles SaintJacques in white wine sauce’ are now more readily available. One young chef from the newest restaurant on the quay in Tórshavn suggests ‘cod served with pumpkin seeds’ and ‘asparagus with citrus fruits in a nage sauce’.
He has the dream of one day being able to serve ‘wind dried lamb vinaigrette’.
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FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 2008) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have 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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Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.
Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living 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 blood-stained bay is soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales.
The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere of entertainment. Indoctrinated from an early age, children are often given a day off school to watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses of slaughtered whales.
Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.
Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.
The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
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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In the developed Denmark, spectacle of barbarity against whales happens annually
Mônica Young chicken/AmbienteBrasil Many had been legitimately annoying with the swaggerer of foreigners by whom they could take account of the Amazônia best of what we, the Brazilians.
Some countries of the call “first world”, that already they had finished has times with its forests, now posam of defenders of the planet and arrogate the right to intervene with territories that are not of them, express message, for example, for New York Times in the news article “Of who are the Amazônia, after all” (click to read notice here on the subject).
Where if it weighs Brazil to continue if showing incapable to control the deforestation in the region, what many defend are that if does not have to confuse aid with mediation. The curious one is that, in some of these countries that if place as advanced in all the directions, crimes against the nature are perpetrated that, in the case of them, cannot at least be justified by the outcries of the survival. Right now, it comes circulating for the Internet an email that shows photos of a blood bath, this spilled of whales, in the Feroe Islands.
For who never it heard to speak of them - and this it would not be uncommon -, saved us it Wikipédia: “The Feroe islands or “islands of the Sheep” are an independent territory of the Denmark, part of the Europe, located in the North Atlantic between the Escócia and Iceland. The archipelago is formed by 18 bigger islands and other uninhabited minors who receive, to all, 47 a thousand people in a 1.499 area of km ². In the island biggest - Streymoy - the capital is located, Tórshavn.
” In this place, as it sees, on to the prosperous one and developed Denmark, an event is carried through every year that it includes to enclose hundreds of whales to the side d´água, stops later having the pleasure of exterminar them it blows of knives. Children costumam to be excused from the schools in this day, to follow the “amusement”, that she functions as a species of ritual of ticket of the youngsters to the adult age (sees photos in the end of the substance).
Already she circulates a petition in the Internet asking for steps to finish with such barbarity. “This esportiva hunting is one practical one that it was abandoned in the whole world has many decades, and now is considered illegal in many other European countries”, says the text of the petition. “The inhabitants of the Feroe Islands do not have necessity of the meat of whale for the subsistence, and very of the meat she is left to apodrecer and it is play it are. It cannot be exported, therefore poluída with metals is heavy and other toxins and, thus, do not take care of the standards of health of the European Union for food for consumption for human beings”, continue. (To confer the complete text, in English, click here) In July of 2000, the organization Sea Shepherd, that dedicates it to protect the sea forms of life, sailed until the Feroe Islands to intervine in the annual slaughter of whales pilots.
It better obtained that the slaughter was taken to the first pages of European media e, that this, started to make economic pressure on the company that still bought foods of the sea with origin in the Feroe, what it represents 90% of the local economy, with predominance of the purchases made for the dutch giant Unilever.
“Above of 20 a thousand points of European sales the retail they had cancelled its contracts of fishes the order of the Sea Shepherd”, informs the vestibule of the entity. The fight is, however, far from a happy end. “In the Norway this also happens; it is a cultural problem”, said the AmbienteBrasil Cristiano Pacheco, legal coordinator of the Sea Shepherd in Brazil.
“It is a spectacle of horrors, them open the neck of the animals of it are the rejection they leave and them agonizing in the side of the beach, where the people are applauding”, complete the lawyer, for who is “incredible” that something in the world in full Century XXI happens thus.
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In the developed Denmark, spectacle of barbarity against whales happens annually noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/noticia/?id=38411
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9 / 05 / 2008 De quem é a Amazônia, afinal?, diz reportagem do "New York Times"
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BRAZIL ENVIRONMENT
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End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands!
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-whale-dolphin-slaughter-in-...
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Ilhas Faroé, Fábrica de Monstros.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9uM0iqgfo&feature=channel_page
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VÍDEO YOU TUBE:
Dolphin & Whale Massacre in Denmark
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Denmark: Assassina - Whales Massacre
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The truth, currently, the faroesa society is debating on eventual stoppage of the hunting having in mind medical warnings to the feeding of meat and fat of whale due to chemical contamination. Dentated whales as the whale-pilot are in the high one of the maritime alimentary chain, and are, therefore, more inclined than the majority of the other maritime organisms to accumulate toxic substances of the ocean.
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Matança de baleias e golfinhos nas Ilhas Faroe, Dinamarca
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Sport of the rich island = Faroe Islands
ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS CONDEMN FAROESE PILOT WHALE HUNT “The Faroese Government is ignoring the terrifying health warnings of its own Chief Medical Officer. Allowing around 85 tonnes of toxic meat and blubber...
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Cruelty to whales and dolphins = festival in Faroe Islands.
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