Tourists Take Selfies With Dead Whales After Brutal Slaughter in Denmark’s Faroe Islands
Children were playing with whale fins, kicking and punching the bodies, walking on them and seen running around the dock carrying the traditional knives that are used as part of the grind.
CIARA SHEPPARD: ‘A legal hunting tradition that takes place in Denmark’s Faroe Islands was caught on camera and the photos are hard to stomach… 23 pilot whales were rounded up and slaughtered in the bay of Hvalvik, in scene that have outraged animal rights activists. The sea turned red as the whales were driven towards the shore by fishing boat before being killed in the water… Once the hunt was over, the corpses of the dead mammals were lined up on the beach, where young children looked over them and tourists took photos meters from the dead whales.
Photos were captured by charity Sea Shepherd UK, who got a tip the hunt – known locally as a grind – was due to take place. “Over the course of the lengthy drive more and more members of the public and tourists could be seen stopping along the coastline to watch the family of pilot whales struggle and resist,” said a spokesperson for the charity…
“As is often the case, the grind was swiftly becoming a social event with parents laughing and chatting as children played on the killing beach… Children were playing with fins, kicking and punching the bodies, walking on them and worryingly seen running around the dock carrying the traditional knives that are used as part of the grindadrap”…
The whales are killed for their meat and blubber… Unbelievably, it was the 10th whale hunt of its kind in the Faroe Islands this year, with 536 pilot whales slaughtered in total… In September 2018, Sea Shepherd UK offered the Faroe Islands one million euros to stop whale hunts for 10 consecutive years, which they did not accept’. SOURCE…
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