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Just wondering if any of you ever met any Faroese or been to the Faroe Islands? The islands seem kind of mysterious to me and I know the climate is foul there and are descended from vikings like Icelanders. Curious about the local culture and how it differs from Icelandic and other Scandinavian cultures...
Have met a small group at a pub here in Vienna back in 2013. They visited for the world cup qualification game against Austria.
We chatted for a while. They mostly made fun of us because of that:
I will boycot the Faeroe islands as long as they slaughter wales... see the "Grind" campaign of Sea Shepherd...but anyway their climate is so rotten I see no incentive to go there!
I will boycot the Faeroe islands as long as they slaughter wales... see the "Grind" campaign of Sea Shepherd...but anyway their climate is so rotten I see no incentive to go there!
In the Faroe Islands they eat (non-endangered) whales, just like people eats cows and pigs in your country. 30% of meat consumed in the Faroe Islands is whale meat, and in order to obtain whale meat you have to, well, kill whales, I admit its quite messy sight but its all done as quickly as possible. Tastes really good too, I've eaten it, not in the Faroe Islands but here in Sweden. Any problem with that?
they not only slaugter savagely '("grind") endangered dolphins, but they throw off most of the meat as offal (less and less faeroese eat actually that "meat", they'd rather have burgers and hot dogs nowadays)and let their children bathe in the dolphin's blood, -pretty unsavoury in my book-....
they not only slaugter savagely '("grind") endangered dolphins, but they throw off most of the meat as offal (less and less faeroese eat actually that "meat", they'd rather have burgers and hot dogs nowadays)and let their children bathe in the dolphin's blood, -pretty unsavoury in my book-....
Well thats quite a dramatisation. First of all, the species they hunt, pilot whales (called grindhval) is not endangered. No they do not throw off any of the meat back in the sea, just unedible parts like heads, fins, bones and tails. All friends I know online who lives there eats whale meat, and they love it. As I said I have also eaten it here in Sweden, and it tastes really good so I can understand why they want to keep it.
Letting your children attend hunting is a great way to pass on the hunting for the next generations. Moose hunters here in Sweden does the same.
did you read the last UN environmental report ? 38% of terrestrial living beings and 67% of maritime are endangered.
The survival of such barbarous traditions as the Grind just sends worldwide the false signal.
did you read the last UN environmental report ? 38% of terrestrial living beings and 67% of maritime are endangered.
The survival of such barbarous traditions as the Grind just sends worldwide the false signal.
Its not for "tradition" unless you consider eating meat as tradition. Its for meat that represents 30% of meat consumption in the Faroe Islands. This is not some large scale hunt, usually less than 1,000, of a species thats NOT even endangered or threatened, but rather extremely common. Focus on more serious issues like rhino poaching instead, a real threat to a whole species, and let the Faroese have their non-endangered meat.
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