It is about killing pilot whales on the beach on the Island of Faroese, Denmark. The people there have been practiced Whaling since AD 1584. There are around 950 Long-finned Pilot Whales are killed each and every year in summer time. They surround the whales with boats and drive them to the beach. Those wild people consider this horrible and cruel slaughtering to the innocent and highly intelligent whales as their important part of culture and history. Is it culture?
The people from Faroese treat the hunt as their festive occasion. Children are often given a day off school. According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
Please see below forwarded mail with photos :-(
This is horrible and sad, but nevertheless needs to be addressed.
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- Forwarded mail
- Wikipedia
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- Forwarded mail
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သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကို ဖ်က္ဆီးေနသူေတြဟာ လူေတြသာျဖစ္သလို ကမာၻႀကီးကို ဖ်က္ဆီးေနသူေတြဟာလည္း လူေတြပဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။
Sigh...... what a crazy world!!
In order for any global petition to be taken seriously by the Faroe Islands, it has to be both FACTUALLY and LINGUISTICALLY CORRECT.
This petiton (posted above) is neither.
However, on my blog [ http://yardyyardyyardy.blogspot.com/2009/11/gotta-get-it-right.html ] I've researched and highlighted the mistakes.
If you are going to continue circulating this petition, PLEASE correct it. Otherwise you will have NO hope of persuading anyone to stop the slaughter.
Petitions only stand a chance of success if they are correct and make sense. good luck!
PhilBee, NZ
Sorry for off topic, but 2012 is close, is this really matter?
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