The latest reminder is the annual whale hunting event in Faroe Islands that saw the killing of 250 whales and 50 dolphins.
It's not just the large scale of killing that is horrific, but the manner in which it is done.
Inhumane treatment
According to The Standard, the animals that pass through the islands during migration process around this time of the year every year are surrounded and herded towards the beach.The animals are then stabbed to death, often turning the waters bloody red.
The Bloody Rot in the Danish Faroe Islands
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We Must Be Relentless in Our Efforts to Stop the Horrific Cetacean Family Annihilators in the Danish Faroe Islands. -Captain Paul Watson https://t.co/i5sR2TDHkMhttps://t.co/b8qX5KAbA0
It's not illegal
The more horrifying aspect of this butchery is that it is not illegal.The tradition of luring the animals to the beach and hacking them to death has been around for about 1,000 years and is called grindadrap.
Faroe Islands' government defends the practice, saying that it is sustainable and regulated.
It also says that the animals becomes food for the hunters and many on the island. The species of whale that is hunted, pilot whales, are also not endangered.
Although many activist groups and news channels say that the whale hunting is an annual event, the islands' government denies this, saying that whale can be hunted any time of the year.
Illegal or not, the killing of hundreds of whales in that manner doesn't sound humane to us. What do you guys think?