Bobu wrote: Frogfish wrote:
Beautiful work as always Bobu.
However I couldn't bring myself to go to the Faroes due to their annual dolphin slaughter. Blacklisted for me. As are Malta and Cyprus for the millions of songbirds they 'harvest' every year with their 'glue-on-a stick' trapping.
Thanks Kevin! I know that they catch (and eat) whales as in Norway and Iceland. I would never eat whale and I would clearly prefer if they would stop hunting whales.
But on the other side there is a very long tradition in these countries for this.
And one could argue that the practice there is not that much worse than hunting deer or even killing a pork or cow, which is quite common in many other countries. I don't want to defend their behavior but for me it's not a black-and-white issue.
Anyone not interested in listening to me step up onto my soap-box should skip the rest of this post !
I agree with your sentiment re. Norway & Iceland and the worst offenders, Japan (this doesn't apply to Greenland for me because these animals are still virtually the only way many of the Inuit people can exist there and even in Iceland the tide has turned), however it is very different with the Faroes since they claim it is a tradition, except actually it never was (they were whalers but this slaughter was not part of their cultural inheritance).
Everyone should be free to make their own decision on whether to visit the Faroes or not however they should at least be aware of the facts before making that decision. I know many people aren't, where Faroe Isles are concerned.
There are literally hundreds of groups, and the media, that protest this every year and of course it's a national embarrassment to Denmark who have so far failed to influence any control over it. The animals; pilot whales & dolphins, are herded into a bay (very similar to the annual slaughter at Taiji Cove, Japan, which seems to get more media attention) and whole families are then butchered alive, there is nothing humane in the slaughter so therefore to claim it as a 'whaling tradition' is clearly a falsehood.
Sorry for the rant ! I don't mean to put a downer on your thread and I hope your photos receive the attention they deserve but this is a cause close to my heart and I just feel people should know the dark side of the Faroes before making a decision to add it to their bucket lists.
