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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’

www.theguardian.com

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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’

www.theguardian.com

NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
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    No we can not. This is fucked up. It’s one rich guy’s hobby:

    https://ranflygenring.substack.com/p/my-whale-report

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      Im Icelandic and I can confirm this. This massive asshole (Kristjan Loftson) has plenty of money and one hobby, killing whales. He as lost aprox. 20m€ on whaling in the years he has been hunting them.

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        If he’s doing this for profit, there has to be a consumer… Who are the consumers and what are they buying?

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          Sadly, there is whale meat in our supermarkets and restaurants. The only reason they can sell it is because some of the whale is “necessary” for “research”, and the meat is a “byproduct”.

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            What kind of research necessitates killing whales??

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        Why are you government or judges so shady when it comes to this? Like, what is the actual reasson, that this is not forbidden and nobody is in jail? You have a democracy in iceland, right?

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      And here is the asshole making a whole nation look bad yet again;

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/13/the-last-whaler-we-can-hunt-forever-says-iceland-kristjan-loftsson

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