Cruise line apologizes after dozens of whales slaughtered in front of passengers (abcnews.go.com)

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[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Why even hunt whales in the first place? Sure, it's one big food source when you snag one, but people who have tried whale say it's bland and uninteresting. It's just a bunch of fat. And it takes a lot of effort to kill it, haul it, parse it out, etc.

Fish farms give you much more good quality meat without all of the species endangerment.

[-] Pips@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

There are certain very small remote communities in the far north that are isolated and hard to reach. Whale and seal hunting provides a guaranteed food source for these small communities so that they don't have to depend on incredibly expensive (both resource and moneywise) imports. The Faroe Islands is not one of those places because obviously a cruise ship can easily get to it.

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I have been to Iceland and Greenland and Alaska and Norway, etc. I promise you there is no utilitarian need to hunt whales in any of these places. They all have grocery stores where you can buy pineapples for reasonable prices.

We can argue tradition, but there is no utility here.