Dolphins' Massacre Festival in Italy

[SVeXy96]

Originally Posted by Hondasucks

In my searching I came across this video from Japan, equally disturbing, and it's dolphins http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin It's pretty graphic so if you have a weak stomach I'd suggest not watching it.

I found this article on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling..._Faroe_Islands

It's not Italy, but the Faroe Islands, and they kill the whales for food, not just for the sake of killing them. According to the article, they are prohibited from using firearms or harpoons to kill the whales, so they are beached and then killed by cutting the spine with some specialized knife, which also cuts the main arteries, which is what turns the sea red.

I just watched the video... it totally bummed my day

[TomsSVX]

The only way to really justify this is if there is an overpopulation in the area... Jersey welcomes buck hunters with open arms because we have a severe deer overpopulation problem which the hunters help with... I do know that pilot whales are relatively in thin numbers though.

Tom

[SVXMAN2001]

wow i just watched the video posted by svexy96, it;s stories/video's like this that make me F'ing hate the human race. If I ever saw something like that happening I would do the same thing to those people that they do to the dolphins.

[LetItSnow]

Hey, just as long as we're able to admit that:
* Using "dolphins" instead of "pilot whales" is an appeal to the masses, as (for most people) dolphins are familiar, and "pilot whales" sounds a lot like "whales".
* It's not a massacre festival.
* It's not in Italy.

Maybe that's the form that SilverSpear received it in, but zero percent of the subject is true.

He's right, though - the blood sea is disgusting!

[SVXMAN2001]

LetitSnow, what's your point? are you trying to convince us that these acts aren't inhumane? Seems to me like you are bringing up irrelevant, trivial issues. To say it isn't a massacre is to turn a blind eye to the way these animals are brutally butchered. Regardless of where this is happening, doesn't take away that their reasoning of overpopulation or it's some sort of warped tradition is complete bs. Boaters/Fishermen are the one's doing it for profit!

But I digress, I am currently trying to find some sort of organization that condemn's these sort of acts...

[SVeXy96]

Its understandable if they are trying to control overpopulation, but there is a more humane way to do it and considering humans are the most overpopulated creatures on earth we have no room to talk.

[TomsSVX]

Originally Posted by SVeXy96

Its understandable if they are trying to control overpopulation, but there is a more humane way to do it and considering humans are the most overpopulated creatures on earth we have no room to talk.

You know, they lock up people who try to deal with this issue head-on

Tom

[LetItSnow]

Originally Posted by SVXMAN2001

LetitSnow, what's your point? are you trying to convince us that these acts aren't inhumane? Seems to me like you are bringing up irrelevant, trivial issues. To say it isn't a massacre is to turn a blind eye to the way these animals are brutally butchered. Regardless of where this is happening, doesn't take away that their reasoning of overpopulation or it's some sort of warped tradition is complete bs. Boaters/Fishermen are the one's doing it for profit!

My point is that the title is completely inaccurate, and that a lot of the time, people are more than glad to jump on a bandwagon.

Are the whales brutally butchered? It looks - no, reads - like they're making it as humane as possible. Don't sweat the dolphins; that video is outright offensive and disapproved of by more substantial figures than you and I, but they're not the topic.

Five bucks says if you post these pictures on another forum with a story about how sharks coaxed the whales into beaching themselves, and that they had to be cut to be easier for the locals in, say, Prague to handle, that it'll be bought up just as quick.

[Hondasucks]

They are also to feed the entire island, not just the people in the pictures. But yeah, it is pretty disgusting, but keep in mind they are for human consumption, they aren't just killing them and leaving them there to rot.

As for the dolphin video, I don't know what the deal is, but it's pretty gross, and I've never heard of anyone eating dolphin...

Both of these might be a good thing to look up on snopes.com