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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (9 children)

What's not accurate about my comment?

Faroese whaling is a century old tradition that used to be about survival and used whale parts for food and other things like light, fishing material, clothing, etc.

Nowadays, we have replacements for pretty much all these things right ? Whale meat doesn't seem to be widely consumed much anymore, it's also dangerous because of mercury levels in the whales.

Yet the Faroese kill around 700 whales a year, and in a pretty cruel fashion. They force the whales to beach themselves, have their spinal cord and a few major arteries severed and left to bleed out and die over the course of minutes.

I'm all in for traditions but not for cruel and pointless ones.

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