Over 100 whales slaughtered in Faroe Islands, and showed horrific images

News24xx.com -  Some horrific images show many whales being rounded up and slaughtered by villagers on the Faroe Islands. The whales murder was done because the inhabitants prepare for the harsh winter months ahead.

As information, every summer, thousands of pilot and beaked whales are massacred in bays across the remote island.

More than 180 dead whales were cut apart in Sandavágur bay.

Even the children were getting involved, pulling on the ropes and jumping on the carcasses.  Children as young as five were seen lending a hand, using hooked ropes to pull in the highly intelligent marine mammals.

Alastair Ward, 22, Cambridge University student who was visiting the archipelago last month to celebrate his graduation said, "We were walking round this bay when this family of locals ran over and said “you’re lucky, there’s a whale coming”. I couldn’t believe how many whales there were. They were driving them into the bay, prodding them with their oars. Once they got close enough, the whole town sprinted in and started hacking at them."
 
Ward said, "They were putting hooks on ropes in their blowholes to pull them in and then hacking at them with knives. They didn’t die in a very humane way."

The hunt, known locally as the grindadrap, provides the inhabitants in the Faroe Islands with whale meat to last the bitter winter months. 

But the act has been criticised by animal rights campaigners in the past, who say the ritual is cruel and unnecessary.

 

 

 

 

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