Dolphinslaughter

Teens Slaughter Dolphins in Denmark as Rite of Passage

Video by Michael Flood McNulty Opposing Views
(February 01, 2010) in Society / Animal Rights

Denmark is known for its general civility and high standard of living. However, teens from the Faroe Islands in Denmark engage in a brutal dolphin slaughter that may turn some heads. Considered a rite of passage, this video captures a blood-soaked ritual that leaves hundreds of dolphins dead. (Warning: Graphic Footage.)

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  • Gary L Francione
    Are We Surprised?

    We kill 56 billion animals per year (not including fish and other aquatic animals) simply because they taste good. There is no necessity. No one maintains that it is necessary to eat animal products to live an optimally healthy life and an increasing number of mainstream health care professionals tell us that animal foods are detrimental to our health . Animal agriculture is a disaster for the environment because it involves a terribly inefficient use of natural resources and creates water pollution, soil erosion, and greenhouse gases. The only justification we have for the pain, suffering, and death that we impose on billions of animals is pleasure: we enjoy eating animal foods.

    Although we claim to be civilized and to revere nonviolence, we actually participate in mindless violence several times a day when we eat flesh, dairy, eggs, etc.

    We look at an event like the slaughter of dolphins in Denmark, or the bullfight in Spain, or dog fighting in the U.S. and we express our moral outrage. Why? These young people are doing exactly what they have been taught to do--to exclude nonhuman animals from the moral community. They are killing because they get some sort of enjoyment from it--just as the rest of us do when we sit down to eat the animal that someone else killed for us.

    The animal you ate for dinner last night—even if raised in the most “humane” circumstances—had a rotten life and a painful death. Moreover, there is no distinction between meat and other animal products. Animals used for dairy are kept alive longer, treated at least as badly as animals used for meat, and end up in the same slaughterhouse. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk than in a pound of steak.

    Is what these young people have done terrible? Sure it is. But let's not be hypocrites. We're all complicit.

    Please think about going vegan . It's easy, it's better for your health and for the planet, and it's the morally right thing to do.

    Gary L. Francione
    Professor, Rutgers University
    www.AbolitionistApproach.com

    - Gary L FrancioneUS February 1, 2010 4:22PM

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    • ToddG
      Question about "rotten life" comment

      Professor Francione, I was wondering if you could clarify the statement "The animal you ate for dinner last night—even if raised in the most “humane” circumstances—had a rotten life and a painful death." I became mostly vegetarian years ago, though I occasionally eat free-range meat . I understand that often "free range" is only a technicality. Is that what you are referring to, the fact that the bar for labeling something as free range is very low (and thus not actually "humane")? Or do you mean to say that even an animal raised on a small sustainable farm also has a rotten life?

      As for the "rite of passage", what a load of bull. I don't know how long this has been going on, but perhaps some education as to the lives and cultures of dolphins would change some minds in Denmark? Probably not. Most Americans don't think twice about eating pig meat even though pigs are particularly intelligent animals . While I suggest people eat less meat generally, I have a big issue with consumption of pork, ham, etc and usually make a bigger point of that.

      - ToddGUS February 3, 2010 1:07PM

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    • tbcass
      Your business

      While you have a right to your opinions I totally reject your pleas to become a Vegan and find nothing morally wrong with eating meat . That said as far as this ritual Dolphin slaughter or Bull Fighting, Dog fighting or any other killing of animals for any reason except for food I find morally reprehensible. The fact that you are trying to equate this with those of us who eat meat is, for me, wrong. I wish you would get off your morally superior high horse and mind your own business.

      - tbcassUS February 3, 2010 1:14PM

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    • j30a1
      are you serious?

      how is this dude an expert, hes selling his lifestyle of broccoli. technically his veggie life is less economical than he thinks. veggies are still processed in factories. not to mention he is taking plants which convert CO2 into oxygen. Meat consumption isnt going anywhere. so listen everyone: Party at my house . great FOOD on the grill. great drinks in the cooler. great music. no, you cant have a cheese broccoli burger with a beer on the side.

      - j30a1US February 4, 2010 10:55PM

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    • progressisdead
      a death for no reason

      People refuse to make the connections, people will find a way to justify their use of non-human animals for consumption, fashion, or just the "pleasure" of killing. In every instance, it is completely unnecessary to torture and kill a sentient being, yet we continue to do so and compassion eludes us.

      - progressisdeadUS February 5, 2010 5:21PM

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  • Gary L Francione
    P.S (to my longer entry)

    This is an essay I wrote on dog fighting. The essay was published in the Philadelphia Daily News.

    http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/media/pdf/philadelphia-daily-news-20090814.pdf

    Gary L. Francione
    Professor, Rutgers University
    www.AbolitionistApproach.com

    - Gary L FrancioneUS February 1, 2010 4:30PM

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  • moonika2010
    Barbarians???

    How is these possible on these staged and age...?
    How much of a men are they after killing innocent creatures?
    were is the honor in killing for not purpose other than human
    barbarisms and ignorance?
    They to will be come a creature of soul
    and they to will suffered the consequences of their stupid behavior
    And to look at other countries or societies any less is also barbarism...But they are never the less...
    You people of that side of the world has a very bloody history anyways. Is not a surprised to me how their evil still exist even now. I will not pray for You ...evil ones of youth denmark
    and you called your country ...Happy people on earth???
    How can you be happy after such of ignorant bloody act...?
    shame on you and your culture... May God come upon you and your ignorant behavior...Shame..!!!

    - moonika2010 February 3, 2010 2:21AM

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  • HippyHawk
    Buttheads

    Those people are pure idiots. Pure and simple.
    Just about as dumb is the comment above about veganism .
    If we dont kill 56 billion animals this year your salad you had for dinner will cost about 60$ except money wont be good you will need to trade dry goods, ammo, supplies and medicine for it.
    Get the picture smarty pants?

    The way we do it know is definately nasty but it is how you feed 300+ million people.

    - HippyHawkUS February 3, 2010 12:47PM

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    • mike
      In the spirit of a debate site..

      Could you formulate an argument to respond to? You are clearly very heated in your response, but you've made some statements that are unsupported and you used some name-calling.

      I agree that killing billions of animals every year is currently how we feed millions of people, but your suggestion that the alternative is a $60 salad and the odd list that followed is curious.

      Thanks.

      - mikeUS February 3, 2010 1:35PM

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      • HippyHawk
        Massive chaos and starvation.

        I do not think that we can support the planets population, or the USA's for that matter on just vegetarian produce.

        If we just tried to move to doing that even slowly I feel it would be
        Chaotic at best. One bad year of growth and suddenly big cities are scrambling to feed hungry hordes... and things just spiral downhill from there I believe.

        As far as the video is concerned, that is just sad, sad, sad.

        - HippyHawkUS February 3, 2010 1:41PM

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        • mike
          Thanks.

          I apologize if this post shows up multiple times. My response was lost in space somewhere.
          I agree with you about the video . All humans have the capacity to become so disconnected from their actions and their values that they will defend them relentlessly and illogically.
          I disagree with your comment on a plant-based diet . Considering that roughly 10 times the amount of vegetation is produced in order to support the animals we raise and kill for food , I suggest that even the hardest of growing seasons would still produce at least 1/10 the yield; either due to varied points of origin or the considerable surplus from previous years.
          Considering both of your above statements, would you agree to the following conditional?

          IF the human population can survive on a plant-based diet,
          THEN the slaughter of animals is unnecessary, purely driven by tradition and pleasure, and therefore morally equivalent to the behaviors witnessed in the video.

          - mikeUS February 3, 2010 4:06PM

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        • Kelly
          Well, not actually.

          Meat is very expensive to produce, both in actual cost and environmental damage. It is incredibly water intensive as well. It may seem cheap at times because the meat industry gets subsidies from the government . A vegetarian diet would cause less chaos, not more. It would be possible to produce more food with the same money .

          - KellyUS February 4, 2010 1:55AM

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    • mnemon
      Sorry

      But I wish the clueless would just STFU about subjects they know NOTHING about.

      - mnemonIN February 3, 2010 7:57PM

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      • HippyHawk
        Very nice of you to say that.

        But then nothing gets discussed. No one learns much.
        Information likes to flow.

        - HippyHawkUS February 4, 2010 9:55AM

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        • mnemon
          Unfortunately,

          so does misinformation and disinformation.

          - mnemonIN February 4, 2010 1:11PM

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  • irishmanarmstrong
    Rights and Rituals

    Although we may disagree with some of the more violent rituals lets not forget some of the rituals we hold in the U.S. To others they may be offensive but to us they are normal and fine. As far as violence in "sides of the world" there isn't a country that does not have a violent history in some point. I'm not claiming to be an expert in any of these subjects but I know enough to know that neither the U.S. or any other country has any right to condemn others for their violence. I may not enjoy what these people are doing here but I recognize that it is part of their tradition and refuse to condemn them for their actions

    - irishmanarmstrongUS February 3, 2010 12:48PM

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  • zyro70
    Wtf?

    How can those teen's think thats okay? Dolphins are one of the smartest animals , they obviously feel pain. Horrible. Why doesn't somebody stop them? It's not like its justified in anyway.

    - zyro70US February 3, 2010 12:51PM

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    • mnemon
      Tradition

      It's the enemy of independent thought!

      - mnemonIN February 3, 2010 8:01PM

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  • mik008101
    How sick it is; Not Surprised !

    There is not much time left,if thing's like this are aloud to happen ,MOTHER EARTH can't keep giving up it's beauty and it's treasures like this,there will be nothing left soon,then what,if that part ceases to exist than all life ceases to exist.

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  • donnawatkins
    Where are the Sea Shepherds?

    This is disgusting and does a lot to take away from the notion that Denmark is a civilized and enlightened place.

    - donnawatkinsUS February 3, 2010 1:08PM

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    • just a thought
      fortunate to feel sad

      I feel pity on all persons who in some way think they can rationalize and accept this..shame on you. I have always thought I may like to visit Denmark and the islands but no more - too much blood there. If you have ever been fortunate enough to swim with and look into the gentle and totally trusting face of a dolphin I don't think you would ever forget it NOR THIS VIDEO.

      - just a thoughtUS February 3, 2010 1:32PM

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  • Rashi18
    Killing animals not to be eaten

    For the record, I am a member of PETA , standing for "People Eating Tasty Animals"

    Slaughtering any living thing (other than weeds) for the sheer pleasure is really not very moral. The same goes for ritual, even though my ancestors undoubtedly made animal sacrifices. So have your ancestors.

    People grow morally. Hopefully that growth will find its way to the Feroe Islands of Denmark.

    Time dine on some Lox and cream cheese on a Bagel.

    - Rashi18US February 3, 2010 1:36PM

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    • mnemon
      OUR ancestors

      For that matter, most likely killed and ate human flesh and indulged in human sacrifice at some point. Hopefully the moral growth you speak of will find its way to you too.

      - mnemonIN February 3, 2010 8:08PM

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      • Rashi18
        It has

        That's why I don't keep a huge pot boiling on a wood fire for passersby. I prefer my meat prepackaged. Hey, why not join my PETA chapter?

        - Rashi18US February 4, 2010 6:45AM

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        • mnemon
          Cannibals

          were/are probably just as self-righteous and smug as you, and their justifications and attempts at humor certainly no less childish and ignorant. The 'moral growth' you tout appears restricted solely to whatever is convenient for you and is dictated by nothing more than the status quo. You decline to indulge in independent thought, if you are even capable of it that is, and appear to enjoy attacking anyone who does show that ability.

          PS. I'm not a PETA fan, whether Ingrid Newkirk's version or your tired old cliches.

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  • Morganfrost
    A middle ground, perhaps?

    Believing that it is morally acceptable to eat animals is not tantamount to approving the inhumane treatment of animals. If there are (and I grant you, there are) genuine concerns about the manner in which our food animals are handled, then I am unreservedly in favor of working to improve that situation. However, I am not for eliminating meat and dairy products from anyone's (much less my own) diet , any more than I am in favor of compelling lions, tigers and bears to subsist on peanut butter and jelly. We (i.e., humans) have gone to a great deal of difficulty to domesticate cows, sheep, pigs, etc. I'm not sure I see a moral argument by which I should be compelled to refrain from eating them.

    - MorganfrostUS February 3, 2010 2:12PM

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  • flutterby16
    This world is going crazy

    This article made me cry. What they are doing is so inhumane and cruel. Can we do anything to get this country to stop this sensless killing.

    - flutterby16US February 3, 2010 2:58PM

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  • kylo1
    Just a note

    The Faroe Islands are about as far removed culturally from Denmark as Greenland. If this were to take place in or near the Danish peninsula, there would most likely be a ban placed upon this reprehensible practice. But since the Faroes are ruled by Denmark by sovereignty only they do have some cultural freedoms that Denmark would rather not meddle in.

    Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Francione. This is truly disgusting, but not so far from the killing floors of the world's slaughterhouses.

    - kylo1US February 3, 2010 3:19PM

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  • K in Newfoundland
    Hypocrites!!

    The Danes, and indeed the entire European Commonwealth have condemned the seal hunt in Newfoundland as cruel and barbaric. Now, they are committing the same crimes themselves and in a worse fashion. A seal dies instantly from a club on the head, but a dolphin dying with multiple stab woulds is demonic and cruel. Our seal hunt is a self-sustaining fishery prosecuted humanely! Their murder of dolphins is an outrage, prosecuted for entertainment . I don't want to hear any more crap about how bad the Newfoundland seal hunt is. Denmark, whose activists come to Canada and condemn Newfoundland, are exponentially worse and more cruel.

    - K in NewfoundlandCA February 3, 2010 3:21PM

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  • Alayna Staggers
    DISGUSTING AND INHUMANE


    NO EXCUSE! SICKENING! HEARTLESS! PEOPLE WHO DO THIS ARE NO GOOD IN MY BOOK AND I DON'T HAVE TO JUSTIFY MY FEELINGS SO DON'T EVEN ASK ME!

    - Alayna StaggersUS February 3, 2010 3:21PM

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  • Alayna Staggers
    WHY DON'T THEY JUST KILL EACH OTHER


    IF THEY KILL EACH OTHER AT LEAST IT IS THEIR STUPID CHOICE, I WOULD HAVE NO PITY

    - Alayna StaggersUS February 3, 2010 3:23PM

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  • Zmoney187
    I have only one question

    What are these people doing with all of the assorted dolphin pieces once they are finished indulging their libidos? Clearly this is very fun, if you're into this sort of thing, but what happens to all of the biomass that is consumed in the process? I would appreciate some sound research on the subject but it is clear that at the present time the internet is clogged by polarization. To anyone from Denmark: you would do us all a favor if you explained this to us in a rational manner (unlike the creator of this video ).

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    • thebigmike
      BBC article

      The meat is decided up within the community and used for food , a practice that has been documented since 1584. This isn't a rite of passage, it's a people trying to eat during the winter. There was a BBC article done back in 2003 on the subject. I posted a follow up to this with a link to the article and information from a couple other sources.

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    • bpdlr
      Hear hear

      Thanks for the voice of reason. The video was severely biased. There are always two sides of a story, even if you don't want to hear one of them.

      - bpdlrGB February 4, 2010 4:02AM

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  • fsilber
    Are you sure?

    I looked at Wikipedia, and I get the impression that they're NOT killing dolphins ; they're killing pilot whales .

    That makes a big difference.

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    • mnemon
      ?????

      Sorry - is that sarcasm?

      - mnemonIN February 3, 2010 8:11PM

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  • jbutler404
    To unto others ....

    Well of course slaughtering innocent creatures who can't fight back makes these sick bastards men or women . A rite of passage? They are very, very sick individuals who clearly can't apply the common decency of 'is this how I would like to be treated?' to the magnificent creatures before them. All in the Faroe Islands should hang their heads in shame.
    I wish the same barbaric treatment could be meted out to each one of these pathetic excuses for human beings so they could feel the pain each one of their victims endured.

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    • just a thought
      Thank you

      I appreciate your comment - it is ironic that Denmark is SO adamant about having abolished capital punishment - I do not believe for one minute that this spectacle is necessary for these people to eat during the winter....do they not use those boats surrounding this disgusting scene for fishing ?

      - just a thoughtUS February 3, 2010 5:44PM

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      • Francis
        uhm...

        I don't think any Faeroe people would invoke the issue of capital punishment as a defense of their whale-killing practice. All EU and non-EU countries in Europe (except Russia , and possibly Belarus) has abolished the capital punishment. It's a non-issue here.
        They use the boats for fishing , and for all sorts of things, and they have access to locally produced dairy, meat , and also imported goods. However, they carry on a way of life that includes whale-meat in their diets. I find it hard to differentiate between the moral righteousness of slaughterhouse-meat vs. beach- killed pilot whales , other than that the latter is carried out in the open, is non-commercial and subsistence-oriented in nature, and possibly takes two minutes longer to kill than the former. I'm sure it's not a nice way to die.
        Being a vegetarian / vegan at least has a resemblance to try to act in a way that's in accordance to a moral standpoint. In all respect for your opinion, being an meat- eating consumer serenading against the graphic nature of killing is hipocrisy.

        - FrancisNO February 5, 2010 11:40AM

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        • just a thought
          a well written reply - well taken

          Thank you for a thoughtful reply to my emotional comment. I just was stricken by the brutality (it seemed to me) of the young men but then I am not a member of their community. You are quite correct about the practices of slaughterhouses. I am curious about why you would assume I am a meat - eating consumer and not a vegetarian thereby making me a hypocrite?
          Again, I appreciate your reply and I will try not to think about all that blood in the water .

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  • Playa Dominical
    Rite of Passage Indeed!

    How pathetic and barbaric is it that people can willfully and obviously joyfully torture and kill sentient beings. What dwells in these sick, sick minds I will never know. It makes me think of how certain elements in society enjoy going out into the forest and kill deer, smear the animals ' blood on their hands, and then smile and jeer in front of a camera!! This also is a "rite of passage" for some. Heaven Almighty!! "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi

    - Playa Dominical February 3, 2010 10:31PM

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  • TTT
    Lets get some facts on the table

    This article is full of rubbish and manipulation.

    Dolphins do NOT live, visit, breed, eat or have any intensions to do so in the ocean that surrounds the Feroe Islands. Its pilot whales . Every single part of the whale is used for eating and other purposes and will be decided up within the local population.
    It has nothing to do with a blood-raging manhood ritual. Its a simple matter of survival.
    Take a look at your local slaughterhouse and see whats going on there.

    Anyway, it seems that only animals that look cute and behave like humans gets this kind of attention. Would Greenpeace throw their arms around a turkey and protect it from being brutally killed ?

    No! This is urban hipocrisy.

    - TTTDK February 4, 2010 2:08AM

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  • minxie
    minxie

    for the love of all living creatures this barbaric cruelty sickens me to my stomach i could not watch this video as i am sure i would be to upset for god knows how long,i understand the reason for the video in the hope that us humans with at least one brain cell can protest with all are intelligence to stop this unnessasary slaughter,right of passage to what how easy it is to kill a defenceless animal really macho and brave,thugs of the faroe islands do something brave and constructive like saving the planet and all creatures that have a right to live in safety and peace,even you thugs with half a brain cell as that is all you have which you seem to need to slaughter this beautiful animals ,shame on you all

    - minxieGB February 4, 2010 2:39AM

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  • vtyogini
    dolphin slaughter

    I'm going to leave aside any talk of PETA , or vegan / vegetarianism , or the food production conglomerate. This hideous act of dolphin slaughter is beyond disgusting. It's heartbreaking and NO ONE can call members of a society who engage in THIS type of behavior CIVILIZED. What a despicable act of cruelty.

    - vtyoginiUS February 4, 2010 5:45PM

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  • neomass
    The Times Are Changen...

    If this has been going on for 500 years or so and it start for the need of food , then I have to put my self in that time and place. so lets say the islands were only populated by a few small groups of people (just guessing here, I don't think it was a massive city back then). People where more focus on there need in the 1500's then we are now. So shelter and food are two big needs for everyone even today. I'm male so if I was born then I would be expected to work to provide. Also if once a year the biggest amount of food came by and with out it me and my family would starve, I sure that this became a BIG thing to people on these islands.

    But that was then, and that was before the industrial revaluation, food can come more then once a year now. I'm one of those people who thinks that if god didn't want us to eat animals they wouldn't be made of mate, but i don't think we have to do it like this anymore. food is not something that you have to go out and kill with a bow and arrow anymore. I know I'm young and i have more years ahead of my, but i know when something is not right. i respect the ways of other people in the world, and they can do what ever the hell they want to.

    I think people should look at this, and learn from the way you feel about it. I may not make a different in the life of people out in denmark, but I can make a different in the live of people around me.

    thank you

    p.s. I'm about 19

    - neomass February 4, 2010 6:16PM

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  • Alicia Sangineti
    Injustice and brutality: the same at Feroe or at slaughterhouse

    If you had not bred and killed 56 billion animals this year, you might have used grains and vegetables to feed people instead of to the cattle and then you might have fed more and more people in the whole world. To use animals for feeding, in addition to immoral, it is a waste of resources.
    If you don't see what happens inside the slaughterhouse you don't understand why the injustice and the brutality is the same. And... that you don't see it it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen, not that you are not an accomplice...

    - Alicia SanginetiAR February 4, 2010 9:20PM

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  • alpan
    What's my option?

    Gary,

    I like animals too: We're on the same page when it comes to gratuitous killing Dolphins are as smart as humans. They have a sophisticate language as do all Cetaitians. They are extremely ethical and sentient beings. In fact the US Navy test results on their intelligence is "Classified": They performed all sorts of tasks that required intelligence, but they would NOT deliver a bomb! You can fool them only once. They even come to the rescue of ocean swimmers, escorting them away from shark attacks. I could never
    kill one of these creatures.

    I've tried for decades to go vegan with NO SUCCESS. I am a "protein type". Here is what I cannot metabolize: No Sugars, no grains. No Bread, pasta, potato, rice, corn, barley, or fruits. I am a diabetic - if I eat those foods. They also send my blood pressure screaming through the roof. I can only eat slow burning vegetable carbs with protein. Soy is not an answer: It is poisoned with pesticides and GMO in most cases, and loaded with estrogen. Quinoa, I can tolerate, nuts, and chia seeds. But I still crave animal fats and protein: I am mixed with Native American - my most recent ancestors were hunter gatherers. They ate meat , raw liver, kidney, intestines, and fish. So what am I to do? I have to eat and I survive quite horribly on grains and incomplete proteins. It just doesn't work for me and the majority of consumers. I've never met a vegan who looks rubust and healthy.

    While I find the slaughter of dolphins disgusting I also think it may be
    due to competition for the fishing industry (sardines and herring).
    Finland is a major exporter of canned seafood.

    Also, be aware that farmers typically are forced to kill nuisance animals, so even if you're vegan some animals will still be killed in the process. Just my two cents.

    - alpanUS February 5, 2010 1:43AM

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  • alpan
    typo

    (I meant Denmark, not Finland).

    - alpanUS February 5, 2010 1:49AM

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