Sea of red: The Faroe Islands’ cruel and shameful whale-killing tradition

CATHERINE BENNETT: ‘The Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic, has a population of only 50,000 people. But every year the small cluster of volcanic islands comes under global scrutiny for a bloody whaling tradition called grindadráp, known locally as the grind. It’s a practice that occurs whenever a pod of pilot whales is … Continue reading Sea of red: The Faroe Islands’ cruel and shameful whale-killing tradition