Can any Icelanders explain the point of this to me?
No we can not. This is fucked up. It’s one rich guy’s hobby:
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.
If he’s doing this for profit, there has to be a consumer… Who are the consumers and what are they buying?
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”.
What kind of research necessitates killing whales??
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?
And here is the asshole making a whole nation look bad yet again;
I’m not from Iceland, but $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Fuck these guys.
How many battery chickens do you need to unalive to feed the same number of people as one minke whale?
Chickens aren’t at risk of extinction due to human consumption.
We don’t have whale ranches.
I don’t believe Minke whales are endangered either.
They aren’t. “Least concern”
Which would be great if they were hunting Minke whales, but they’re hunting fin whales, which are endangered.
Farming livestock is industrialised animal cruelty. Animals are kept in squalid conditions. Whales have a good life followed by a quick death (unless it dies in the Faroe Islands). Dynamite tipped harpoon will get the job done right.
Maybe don’t eat either.
Oh I eat all animals! I just don’t like hypocrisy.
What makes you assume the person you replied to is a “hypocrite” (i.e. eats factory chicken)?
Most people do.
I’ve only heard about perfumes that once contained whale juices? …What do these whales produce in terms of raw and or commercial material. or is it for sport these days? not that any of it is okay.
Meat. Whale is tasty. Yum yum yummy in my tum tum tummy. Not even joking. People like whale. It’s a very versatile and lean meat which is very high in omega 3, iron and protein… And mercury but never mind that. Just try it next time you’re in a country that hunts them.
Actually, don’t try it. Just encourages hunting.
Unless you are a full vegan, you have no business condemning responsible whaling.
Sanction them. I love Iceland but the way I see it, sanction them and tell them to knock it off. Capitalism sucks but use whatever few means we have in that system to at least right some wrongs.
You gonna demand sanctions for every single country that hunts a wild species that’s classified as “least concern”? I think you’ll struggle to find any countries that don’t pull shit that’s at least as inhumane and environmentally harmful as killing some 100-150 whales per year.
Saw a doc about this that said they could only eat a couple of grams/week because of mercury. What a tragedy.
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I heard that India is allowing people to wack moneys over the head real good now. It used to be that you couldn’t hit them little fellers. Not the cows though. You can’t even eat their brain through a small straw like you are told to do to monkeys in some areas of Asia. Regardless, vegans like me can’t get into the action. We just massacred a bag of pistachios and that’s about as far as we go.
Nice one Iceland
Did we learn nothing from Star Trek 4?
Know why they’re called right whales? It’s because they’re the right ones to hunt.
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