• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    3 months ago

    What’s not accurate about my comment?

    Faroese whaling is a century old tradition that used to be about survival and used whale parts for food and other things like light, fishing material, clothing, etc.

    Nowadays, we have replacements for pretty much all these things right ? Whale meat doesn’t seem to be widely consumed much anymore, it’s also dangerous because of mercury levels in the whales.

    Yet the Faroese kill around 700 whales a year, and in a pretty cruel fashion. They force the whales to beach themselves, have their spinal cord and a few major arteries severed and left to bleed out and die over the course of minutes.

    I’m all in for traditions but not for cruel and pointless ones.

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        3 months ago

        Well, then educate me and please share accurate information then.

        My source is the Wikipedia page which is nicely sourced with plenty of Faroese references: Whaling in the Faroe Islands.

        Unfortunately I can’t read Faroese, so maybe all that sourced information has been lost in translation ?

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            3 months ago

            Well if you reread my comment, that was my original source and I’ve been told that it was inaccurate, so I asked for another source.

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            3 months ago

            Ha ha it really is hard for some people to admit they are wrong “I will not discuss that” wtf lol.

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            3 months ago

            Thanks for the information. Even though your source looks as biased as mine, at least I have contradictory information to make my mind on the matter.

            I’m not trying to enlighten anyone on their culture, I respect all cultures but we need to weed out, or at the very least reform, cruel traditions and practices and that’s not limited to Faroese whaling or bullfighting.

            It’s a good thing that whaling has been heavily reformed in the past few years, and it’s also aiming to lessen the suffering of the animals.