Whale hunting in the Faroe Islands | DW Documentary
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- Whales and dolphins. Around the world, they inspire people. These animals are intelligent and social. Encounters with them are described as transformative. But in Europe, there are also people who kill whales and dolphins.
As part of the so-called Grindadráp, or whale hunt, hundreds of pilot whales and other types of dolphins are slaughtered every year in the autonomous Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, which belong to Denmark. In September 2021, more than 1,400 animals were killed in a single day.
"When I saw these pictures, I was horrified," says journalist Christian Blenker. So, he goes in search of Faroe Island whalers. He wants to know: "Why do men with knives and harpoons still go into the water today and cause this bloodbath?"
Pilot whale hunting is not about commercial exploitation. The hunters and their families divide the meat among themselves and eat it, although consumption is discouraged by authorities because of the meat’s high mercury content.
For this documentary, Christian Blenker traveled to the Faroe Islands with filmmaker Matthias Sdun. Today, he has the answer to his question - and it wasn’t the one he was expecting.
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2:15 "I wanted to understand, not judge" bro you judged them so hard
I think the ways of Faroe's people is more honest. People must know the source of their food and make informed decisions. What about billions of chickens, sheep, cows and pigs that are killed every year. You should visit a slaughterhouse and see how those other animals are harvested on an industrial scale.
I agree with you...people who hunt or eat sheep, cow, chicken, etc shouldn't be so offended at whale hunters.
@@togodbethegloryjohn1464 Thanks, a sense of perspective is good.
@@johndewey6358 this form is reasoning, while logical isn't always applicable. I think the main concerns for the killing of whales is two things.
One: they're an endangered species,
two: they're intelligent and emotionally complex animals, with cognitive abilities that are remarkably sophisticated.
@@zoecarliburpilot whales aren’t endangered
Look up the 1400 dolphin pod slaughter. in 2021. that was done mindlessly and not for food!
Thanks for dispelling the popular misconception that Japan is the only country in the world that hunts whales. Norway, Russia, Iceland and Canada all have legal whale hunts.
Russia ahahaha, rly?))))
better be silent than dumb)
Oh wow, and your point? These people have to eat. Japanese have even better farmland than this region
Natives are the ONLY ones allowed to hunt them and they hunt very few whales.most hunt only one for a village.@@nikola_tomic
@@sitniky they do it in Chukotka
@@ADUAquascapinghe didn't say it was bad, just that they show others also do it
What a boring world if everyone eat the same food
Great documentary. I see it from both sides. I think everyone should eat less meat but killing a whale that has lived completely naturally it's entire life is a lot better than standard farming practices. I think the images of the blood in the water are impactful and are obviously going to affect some people but just imagine all the blood from the dead cows and pigs and everything else. Abattoirs are much much worse than the shores of the Faroes.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
not a fair comparison. domestic farm animals and wild dolphins and whales are not same thing. one major thing is the fact that wild animals if hunted like this would go extinct. You have heard of the whaling expeditions that almost hunted the whales to extinction and to this day, some have not fully recuperated.
Pigs and cows breed like crazy and WE domesticated those animals. There is no need to do this other than tradition which i hate that word and culture which i also hate being used all the time. If everyone done this, these animals would be gone really quick.
comparison has gone you losing kindness to whales
They hunt a small amount while the Japanese hunt dolphins and whales 1000 times more and let's not even get started on the Chinese. Faroe Islands hunt very little even if i don't agree with the practice i think that you should focus on China and Japan.
@@scubaguy5389 The whole point is that there are some people who think it is more justified to rely on local sources as pilot whales, that actually lived a good life, free in nature, than relying on enslaving millions of animals, feed them in ways well documented to put a strain on nature, pollutes and kills biodiversity, and do that all in the name of profit, while the islanders do the opposite and share the food equally and freely.
Pilot whales are not endangered, never been endangered and are listed as "Least concern" by IUCN.
There are over 800.000 pilot whales around the islands and more globally. The islanders take out less than 800 a year on average, and that is more than 0.001 % of a species that reproduces up to 3.5 % annually - meaning what the islanders do is sustianble.
And to me, it is far more justified source of meat than ANY industrialized meat!
Who says a pig or cow is less intelligent than a dolphin? and does being less intelligent mean it's acceptable to be imprisoned and slaughtered in an abattoir?
Each culture has it's own tastes..
Pigs are smarter than whale and dolphins
GO VEGAN
🧠🤡@@Soulfulvision1111
It’s more complicated than that
I swear humans are soo alien:
If it's for food. LET THEM EAT.
I agree 👍
Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette
wild animal also consider humans as their food so accoring to you humans body should serve to them!!!
@Aryan_jr You remember the food chain, right? That's how nature is. We eat all types of animals around the world.
And given a chance, the wild animals will eat you. It's just a means of survival. There is nothing to be emotional about.
If people from Faroe consider this a delicacy, why should they be denied? Ever heard of trophy hunters? Right!
It's just food.
@@keitus7177 no one can change mindset of people like u and others who consider whatever they want as their food they going to eat
I have worked in a slaughterhouse as a student many times. The pigs made the most noise - seeming to understand what would happen. Many animals were not dead yet when they were being butchered. Their flesh was warm and the nerves still working. It was monstruous. But we all eat their meat. Nobody knows how it goes.
People must know your story. I am a vegetarian. Pigs help compost trashed food and create soil. They are not food!
42 minutes of "I came to judge and feel morally superior" .
why you not think about creulity when eating cows and pigs
mercury poisoning.. wud be one
The teacher was extremely assertive n firm. You earned my respect!! A well deserved response!!
In Denmark we have no control over the Faroese😂, but we always get blamed
ppl have no idea, its silly really
denmark be like: ''fartkontrol''
Jà buhu!!! Skal jeg vise dig billeder af, hvad danskere gør med deres dyr?
Greenland is under Denmark right?, and they hunt whales 💁
@@hans-jrgenbernhardtsen8506 They are self governing since 2009, still in our kingdom however. We do fund quite a lot of their society. Its opposite with Faroe Island, that is doing much, much better. Probably due to having been self governing since 1948 and having preserved their culture, and also had our help along the way.
There is no difference with what other people do to animals... We all kill to eat and no one should judge the other
farmed animals do go extinct but wild ones do
While it's true that whales and dolphins are revered for their intelligence and social nature, it's important to acknowledge the cultural and historical context of practices like the Grindadráp in the Faroe Islands. For generations, the people of the Faroe Islands have relied on whale hunting not only as a source of food but also as a deeply ingrained cultural tradition. The hunt, known as the Grindadráp, is conducted with respect for the animals and with strict guidelines to minimize suffering.
Contrary to popular perception, the hunt is not driven by commercial exploitation. Instead, it serves as a means of sustenance for the community, with the meat being shared among families. This practice fosters a sense of unity and interdependence within Faroese society.
While the images of whale hunting may evoke shock and horror, it's essential to understand that perspectives on the matter vary greatly depending on cultural, ethical, and environmental considerations. It's not merely a matter of senseless slaughter but rather a complex issue intertwined with tradition, livelihood, and sustainability.
as long as they're not negatively affecting the whale population and aren't being wasteful then it's fine by me. if a large part of the catch goes to waste because they caught too much then they should hunt less.
thing to keep in mind is they don't ACTIVELY hunt them if whales go too close to the island they get hunted if no whales show at all they don't hunt them at all
when i was in school in mainland europe, they actually took us to a slaughterhouse to see the whole process in the meat supply chain. it's brutal and i don't have any desire of hanging a pic of it on my wall
Whaling in the Faroes has a historical significance that isn't really comparable to food history across the mainland. It's a harsh, rocky landscape. Nothing grows well here besides grass, and before commercial freighters were a thing, we were entirely dependent on the sea, and a Grind could mean the difference between abundance and starvation. Young men wouldn't need to risk their lives quite as desperately out at sea, and the elderly who could no longer provide for themselves might live through another winter. The whales meant the world to the people of the time, and that's worth remembering, through history and art.
@@themightychickens the guy in the video with a pic of whale hunt compared it to mainland europeans killing cows, not me...
I think they should be able to continue their traditions. My only question is why would they have needed to kill 1000 dolphins that seems a little excessive.
As long as they eat or use the meat then that’s their business, they have every right to do as they please just as how the whales and dolphins have every right to ki11 other animals for food.
so they can make the whales go extinct and that's fine?
@@riskinhos That’s nature. Millions of species have gone extinct and millions more are evolving. Even though I don’t believe they’ll hunt them into extinction.
Thats just nature though.@@riskinhos
"That's just nature" is a crazy take I'll say that much... The issue is that when humans drive a species to extinction, it completely removes 'nature's' course of evolution, which doesn't happen overnight. The reason so many animals have gone extinct in recent history, either due to direct human impact, or indirect such as the introduction of invasive species, or removal of habitat, is because it happens way too quickly for the species to even slightly stand a chance of adapting.
@@MrDaiki_ One species driving another one to extinction is PART of Nature. The only difference is humans have the power to preserve a species of they want to.
Ok, I'll give my opinion that no one asked for. It really is a horrible slaughter, a cruel spectacle, but it is good to remember that millions of chickens, pigs, cows and other animals are murdered every day around the world. The argument that dolphins are intelligent, social and live in groups is also not enough. All mammalian animals have some type of developed intelligence and evidently all animals fight for their lives and do not wish to be killed. So if you eat any type of meat, don't be a hypocrite.
I honestly don't understand why a dolphin should be more important than a cow.
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cows and chickens are killed out of necessity. these dolphins here are killed for entertainment
@@tolstoyed This is information I don't know. If you are right this needs to change.
@@tolstoyedThe majority of the world do not eat animals out of necessity. It is for taste pleasure, habit, and the convenience of sticking to what they know.
@@MattCooperKayi’d say it’s convenient because it’s most affordable for most people
@@tolstoyed Do you say that based on personal experience and evidence, or are you parroting the same unfounded responses that most do?
the world, the world, the world is a bad place......this makes me wanna tour the faroe islands..how far from the vice can one be and feel?
These people have been there, just as long as the people of Hawaii have. I’d say they’re pretty much native. they were cut off from modern Europe, preserving their culture. It’s fine when a southern tribe hunts like this because it’s just expected of them, but God forbid western tribe does something like this, that’s barbaric! Dumb
I think the documentary succeeded in being well balanced. Personally, I have a lot more understanding of why this type of hunting still takes place. It's quite comparable to hunting deer or elk in my opinion. And considerably less objectionable to me than factory farms where pigs and cows are slaughtered. I agree that it's hypocritical to condemn this practice while not raising the same objections to meat-eating and hunting in our own countries.
@@acorlite Humans do not have the "need" to eat meat at all. But many do, and I think it is hypocritical to condemn one group's choice of meat and method of killing while at the same time remaining silent on the entire question when it comes to killing other animals for meat. Tell me how eating dead pigs, or octopus is different.
@@acorlitedo you need your bacon,chicken or burger? Because 1. You don’t need to eat those, but you do do it anyways 2. Because their lives are mistreated from day 1, especially chickens, cows are having a blast, until they end up in the slaughterhouse.
Killing whales is same as fishing only size difference.
Whales are a much more advanced form of life than fish. They suffer much more than fish do due to their nervous systems and social natures. There IS a huge difference here.
The same is true for pigs. They are quite smart but we still have large meat factories.
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen How? i thought all lives matter equally and not one above the other? isn't it more ethical to kill one whale instead for 26000 salmons for instance? (salmons weighs around 5kg and a single blue whale weighs 130000kg lower end. 130000/5 = 26000. 26000 lives lost compared to one?
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThenanimals are animals, you either eat them or you dont.
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen 🤡 unless you are vegan you have no right to talk about killing of other animals just because they are cute or something
If you continue to eat cows, chickens, pigs, ECT, then leave the people of the Faroe islands alone, if they wish to eat whales then it's there way of living
35:35. Wrong word. The animals were slaughtered on the beach. Now they're being "butchered".
Americans here thinking there is an abundance of food in the Faroe Islands. The climate is harsh and there are almost no animals period. This is as local and as environmental friendly as it gets.
they got plenty of sheep, lamb and fish. they also import lots of their food, together with cars and all other comforts. they’re one of the richest countries. whale hunting is not a necessity for them anymore
why do you put the lives of whales above sheep and fish? are you racist against sheep or fish since you dont mind them being killed?@@tolstoyed
Americans? It’s German report. Surprise
@@tolstoyed Why is whale hunting bad?
@@24jerdeif they’re allowed to eat whales, will they stop eating mutton, other types of meat and fish? it’s not necessary for them to hunt whales anymore since they have abundant meat supply
Great documentary 👍.
Yes I understand it's tradition but you don't massacre animals and then waste it in the name of tradition.
He did mention they eat them
@@oo5581 Bits and bobs, sure, but most of the whale and dolphin won't be used.
Way back when a whale could keep a family from going hungry for a year, a dolphin a person, nowadays most will be thrown away. And how many whales and dolphins did they catxh back then, and how many do they catch now, i don't believe numbers nowadays will be going down.
This is just unnecessary cruelty, tradition for traditions sake. And then the added aspect of these species being already endangered, or borderline endangered.
They do. It is a tradition to be criminals.
Tradition of criminals.
@@thisorthat629 Where's the data about them wasting meat from? Even the animal rights activist girl on the video admits that they eat most of the animal: 13:38
So we have to wait for the animals to go exctinct before the culture can change. Just like mankind drove other animals to extinction through overhunting. Greeeeaaaaat. Thanks for documenting it though, very important. Very sickening.
Extinction isn't a problem in this case. According to the latest scientific estimates, the pilot whale population in the eastern North Atlantic numbers some 380,000 animals, with 100,000 in the area around the Faroe Islands. The average catch of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands over the past 20 years has been around 600 whales a year.
Americans out here thinking every single species of whale is about to go extinct
stop eating meat then, if not you´re a hypocrite
The same winey people go home and eat a bacon cheeseburger. They caught killed and ate some big fish, so what!!
Well see unlike pigs the whales are endangered and unlike pigs there there is no good reason to hunt the whale when we can get food and oil etc from other ethical sources 🤷🏾♂️
@@sergeantD14 Pilot whales are not endangered thankfully so these hunts don't actively damage the population
A very balanced and fair documentary. Thank you DW
Well… at the end these people do this since many centuries and they live more in natural balance than the most of us. They are not responsible for the ongoing extinction of various species. For me watching various documentaries about this cultural event showed quite clearly that what we do to the world with the animal faming is much worse than anything else. What do you guys think happens in a slaughterhouse? Only difference is that it happens behind closed doors. Can’t believe how some people think. Also watch the hands on documentary made by „the best ever food review show“. They don’t waste a single bit of what they slaughtered. It’s a year of supplies for them.
do they drive around in cars and motorized boats for centuries as well? why pick and choose which traditions you want to keep?
@@tolstoyed horses and paddles.
@@tolstoyed so cars are tradition?
@@dediqated2144 why don’t they stick to their transport traditions and use horses and non motorized boats? why don’t they live in huts anymore? they’re importing all the goods they want, there’s 0 necessity to stick to tradition of whale hunting
@@tolstoyedyou want them to import whale from Japan?
If Jens' hair grow any longer he will look like Billy Bob Thornton of Fargo, he has same demeanor too :p
If this were China, the comments section would have gone insane.... However, because it is a European country, we see many people defending the practice.
If this were China then DW wouldn't be allowed to film, meanwhile Faroese people invite DW to watch and treat them like friends.
If you know more about the topic you would know that the islanders have been harrassed since the early 1980´s because of their food preferrence.
The islanders have never had it easy
But the islanders do not care about the harrasement, because they believe what they prefer to eat is far more justified than the food most of us in the rest of the world prefer to eat.
FACTS. The racism wouldve be all over the place
Ok, so Faroese kill 1,000, but it's 100,000 dolphins that are killed per year
I really the response the father gave this Dude. How can you question another man’s food.
I see both sides of the argument but I don’t see how you can condemn them for eating what they hunt… Even though the whale meat is higher in mercury levels… crab, lobster, and shrimp are all creatures that have high amounts of cadmium which is poisonous but it doesn’t stop Americans and everyone else from eating them… McDonald's is obviously not the most healthy food source but it’s still popular… There are countless slaughterhouses in everyplace in the world… Everyone likes the chicken nuggets until they find out how they are actually made… No one is banning the Chicken Nugget or trying to advocate for the Chicken 🐓 … I think the key is compelling these villagers that hunt to also be obligated for contributing towards repopulating the species that they hunt… If they are repopulating and cultivating the species then it would contribute towards justification of their traditions lasting forever… Interesting documentary and I enjoyed it…
I have no issue taking animals for food. But do not take more than is needed.
They don't even utilize 1% of the pilot whale population in the ocean. The exact amount harvested has been recorded for hundreds of years in the Faroes.
Host, you don’t have to agree with them; it’s their way of life. People should understand that all the meats they consume are being killed too! The question is, there’s no humane way of killing any animal-killing is simply killing…
For saying you didn’t want to judge these people for their traditions, you surely judges them. Using words like slaughter and massacre then saying how traumatized you were from the footage you’ve seen. You’re a hypocrite and have no use in a self-sustaining society that hunts for their own food. You’re city perspective doesn’t even have the base of an understanding what it means to harvest your own food. We see a resource for food, tools, oil, hide, etc. These are important and valuable along with being traditional. Indigenous populations all have exceptions to wildlife regulations because of their traditions, why should it be any different for the people of the Faroe Islands?
Best Ever Food Review Show doco about the Faroes is worth a watch and goes more indepth about the food culture.
Well the thing I know about Faroes Whale hunting is that they don't go to the ocean to hunt whales they do it when the whales come closer to island
As a faroese person i can confirm🇫🇴
No, because they force the whales toward the coast with their boats
@@Faroe27ah really? And what about the boats which push the whales toward the coast? Ridiculous
@@Faroe27 Since it's a traditional thing why don't these people use traditional equipment instead of using modern advanced equipment.
See around the world traditions is not only about the results but put more emphasis on the process/way(using the same methods and tools as used by the ancestors ) to achieve the goal/results There are many traditions around the world almost all of them are practiced using the old method from centuries before
@@wokenessaplague5387 Because in the olden days WE DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE SUFFERING! so now that we care and they die painlessly we use better and more humane tools. Its like bear traps before it was painfull and now it is illegal to use those traps and have been replaced or even banned.
The man has a point, why judge their culture, and I loved his comeback, if it is intelligence that should stop us from killing, we need to stop eating pigs/pork too. If you went to India they’d judge all of us for eating cow/beef. But you wouldn’t stop eating your burger or schnitzel?!
nope
@@acorlite Yes it is true, I'm Azorean
''if it is intelligence that should stop us from killing, we need to stop eating pigs/pork too.'' - It's not black and white like that. Animals do provide us with sustenance but the more intelligent the creature then the less ideal it is to be killing it. Whales are known to be extremely intelligent. I wouldn't be surprised if they were smarter than humans although it's hard to compare.
It is interesting how we call some animals cattle and other pets so we can feel good about eating one and feel good loving the other ones.
You can have cattle as pets, dog is not a pet because it's a dog, and some countries they are food also
TH-cam censorship still rampant!
If you say you couldn't kill a pilot whale, would you also say you wouldn't kill a highly intelligent pig? What's the difference?
could you go to Japan to report on whale hunting too along with Iceland and maybe Norway too all doing the whale hunting, please
And Russia,China, Denmark,Canada, USA and Japan
I know about japan but what about the rest of the nation what did they do to be on the list japan is whale hunting @@hans-jrgenbernhardtsen8506
Faroe Island is part of Denmark but whale / dolphine hunting is illegal on mainland Denmark but Faroe Island & Greenland are excluded and have special privilege for hunting. The real problem are commercial liners from China and Japan that hunt whales way outside their jurisdidction with the excuse of research.@@hans-jrgenbernhardtsen8506
NO
Oh no you did not lmao.
I'm pretty sure everybody knows about Japan whaling, ffs many people actually believe Japan is the only country to do it lol.
As much as a controversial topic it is, its tradition almost plus They don't go out and "hunt" per-say. They only hunt the Pilot whales if they go through the Islands waters unlike Japan
they are eat
Stop using Tradition as an excuse to do the unnecessary harm
I bet you kill insects. You probably killed a few spiders in your life or flies. If you do, then you should stop the unnecessary harm as well.
And you don”t have a problem, when people eat burgers with bacon and chicken dishes?
Nonsense@@mewandlife
Faroe islanders could also criticise and condemn other nations for keeping cows in stables and then slaughtered them for food also. Its the same thing.
What a perfect documentary this is
I can realized both sides
But our side is strong that not kill them in large numbers
Those wheels are so big who were killed by them
Human beings are dropping bombs on Human beings and you busy about food for these people. My Godoooooh!
We can care about more than one thing at a time - well some of can anyway.
A whale dying? It's the same as catching fish Go figure
The truth is feeling sorry is stupid because it’s the same thing as hunting a cow or something
What does dolphin taste like? Is it similar to shark? We eat tuna and that seems to be ok.
Simply a great documentary. Very informational.
It was a truthful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) channel about Faroe 🇫🇴 peoples hunting pilot whales 🐋 and dolphins 🐬 as locals tradition .. ..thank you 🙏 ( DW) channel for sharing...
It is mass murder which has nothing to with hunting
can you please tell me what a hunt is in your opinion? It we where talking about a typical day in a slaughter house where a 1000 pigs a killed behinde close doors I would say that it isen´t a hunt@@scooter763
Sorry i don't really like it. Poor animals!
Such is life
@@connerhartley7142it doesn't have to be
Just stop oil
Human nature is savages 🤣..
Especially gathering their protein and it's methods.. hmmmm..
( Hello, capitalism economic system. ) .. 😂..
in my opinion, if it is sustainable, it is okay to harvest its abundances..
and regarding the dangers of consumption well, we have capitalistic military 🪖 industries, tobacco products, alcohol consumption, and fast food industries.. hmmmm..
I guess you can't tell people what to do, but what we can do is change our culture, customs within an evolution way slow and difficult.. hmmmm.. .. and eventually, perfection can be made 😌.
@@peaceleader7315 if you want any changes, change yourself and don't expect others will does the same as you do
I think native people should be allowed to continue their traditions.
I’d also recommend watching Earthlings, Dominion, Seaspiracy, Cowspiracy, and Blackfish!
If you think its okay to eat whales then its ok to eat dogs cats, monkeys elephants. anything long as it isnt endangered.
Sorry DW. I can't watch it.
I can't even watch this: horrible 😞!
Ask the cruel japanese....they are still slaughtering the whale everyday
People who do this just for the sake of tradition are beyond stupid. There is no humane way to kill a whale, they suffer terribly from this bloody slaughter. The people doing this are simply heartless and evil.
your are living in a world of fantasy
Maybe you should actually learn something about whale physiology and social interaction. All the BS about tradition is just a smoke screen. If they want to hunt in a 'traditional' way then do it without all the modern accessories. @@nadz3272
Oh and while you are at it learn the diference betowen 'your' and you're'... @@nadz3272
now tell me killing people againts people everday on earth?
its not a whale its a killer whale a family of dolphin for god sake
The first father they showed sounds like jurgenn klopp lol
Great documentary. Just a small comment on the classification of dolphins and whales. If you say „eat whales or dolphins“ its like you would say „primates or apes“ or „carnivorans or dogs“ The one is the, order the other is the familiy. All dolphins are whales just like all apes are primates and all dogs are carnivorans.
All the people in the comments thinking the meat THEY eat did not come from live animals containing blood.
who thinks that?
@@tolstoyed You’re a grown man - you don’t need me to point things like that out, but to save you the embarassment of having to asking again if you MUST maintain the slightly obtuse literalist reading - this was my way of pointing out the silliness in thinking that whatever they eat is somehow ethically differentiated from this. I excempt any vegetarians and vegans, on that score, although such life choices still does not automatically validate the point of view that hunting should be wrong either.
Anything else?
@@whynottalklikeapiratsee, i don’t think there are many people here in the comments who think killing a whale is ethically questionable, whereas killing a cow isn’t. i think there’s a difference in killing out of necessity vs killing because it’s a part of tradition though
@@tolstoyed Seems you have your own theories about what people in the comments think. Your point about necessity I have already adressed in a separate comment to you …
@@whynottalklikeapiratit’s not a theory, it’s an observation
Denmark should ban this
Denmark has no control over Faroe Island. Ppl dont seem to understand it 😄😉
Denmark dose not control the fareo islands, the only thing that have control over is the military
If you are a people who is only living off of store prepared, you don't know the importance of surviving.
Someone please explain to me what the problem is.
I don't like it as well. Unfortunately there are a lot of subproducts that come from such things and go totally "under the radar"..
For example?
@@aleale6277
Oil, fat and cartilage are used in dietary supplements. Maybe also in medicine but there I am not sure....
It was called "MALING" and "LUNCHEON MEAT" IN china in canned foods.
Christian Blenker shamelessly biased. DW do better have more journalistic integrity
Thank to DW👍
Lots of things i thought about saying. Rewritten this comment a half dozen times. Difficult subject Interesting film.
Gotcha! I can understand how it generates mixed feelings for some people. So many ways and angles you can look at this from. For or against!
Thank you dw documentary for this. They shouls stop killing whales ang dolphin. The whales and dolphins are so helpless… the menn who kill the whales in this documentary looks like demons in real life.
Not easy to stay neutral about this. I'm appalled. I suppose this whaling will end when the mercury poisoning sets in.
Do you even raise an eyebrow when someone eats a burger with bacon or a chicken sandwich? That is where cruilty really is!
eh, even with mercury, the meat can still be eaten..people just need to be aware of HOW MUCH they eat..
The Germans are full of poetry. The Faroese are waist deep in reality.
can't watch. There is no reason for this cruelty.
For food
I bet you don’t even raise your eyebrows, when you see someone eat a hamburger with bacon or a chichen dish.
What is depicted here is the essential, basic human experience, which we have given up, to become mindless consumers. The supposedly developed West has chosen to completely separate itself from nature, focus on city life - and mental suicide, by poisoning its youth with constant cr*p via mass media. And of course, people from modern socities, with absolutely no connection to nature, are criticising others, who still try to preserve their culture, traditions, and history. However, those smaller communities will still be around even after we have successfully exterminated ourselves by pursuing physical and mental idleness, along with increasingly dangerous ideologies (climate, gender, diet, etc).
you’re aware faroes are a part of this modernized, western, consumerist society, right
How's that guy who made this film behave naively himself as nothing happened in Germany 🤦 he probably knows how many pigs dayly kills in his county every day for food the same other countries who consume animals as a food it is their habits their nature they live in the island with limitations and blame them as praditor it's so selfish of that film makers just shut your eyes wide the same happens in your Countries every day who consume meet just look at yourselves at your eating habits first than stupidly selfishly and naively pretending as you were inecont to blame these people.
Eating a creature which didn't exist and is raised for the purpose of being consumed is somehow understandable, but, removing a part of the ecosystem is not justifiable I think.
Many feel the opposite, that it is hypocritical to justify enslaving animals in torturing tiny cages, feed them in ways well documented to pollute the ecosystem and destroy biodiversity
Eating of local organic non endangered sources that actually lived a good life is far more ecofriendly
Shooting drones and damaging car tyres simply means what you are doing is wrong and you don't want it known. Where is the common sense in humans gone at 🤷🤷🤷
I think it’s human cruelty towards animals, that have no defense.
Tradition is Tradition. Leave them alone!!!
As an outsider i chose to respect their culture, they've been living like this for thousands of years probably and the wale population seems unharmed, therefore it would be autocratic for ua outsiders to tell them how to or exercise their own culture
So if they killed and ate people because it is their culture, that would be ok too I suppose... Seriously? I don't respect mindless brutality and neither should anyone else.
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen🙄
Comparing eating an animal/ fish to eating people 😂
You think there is something about us that prevents us from being eaten? It is simply culture that says cannibalism is unacceptable. Cultures change and they change for good reason. This hunting of whales needs to change too. @@erwynbalbuena9900
@@erwynbalbuena9900who’s comparing anything? and who are you to judge cultures/traditions?
Tradition is no excuse for cruelty.
Are you going to say the same about factory farms.
This is degusting let the be beautiful animal be
Get over it
Pure cruelty😡.
Poor whales😢😢
In 9 days, it will be the year 2024. Come on, people. Stop this inhuman act🙏🙏
Carma will do the job, I'm sure of it.
Do you even raise an eyebrow when someone eats a burger with bacon or a chicken sandwich? That is where cruilty really is!
Wait till the Gibraltar orcas hear about this
Is basically one of their means of livelihood
Leave these people be…. whales are their food of preference. You also have food if preference. You do not want them to start telling you to practice their traditions. So let them be.
What happens when that food source no longer exists? They'll have to change then anyway. The only difference is the whales could go extinct or not.
Practices and traditions like that lead to many extinct species already. So yeah, why not continue, right? Do those people there still live in wooden huts and wear pelts? No, they use modern air conditioning, computers and cell phones, but DARE SOMEONE question a tradition that affects the eco systems.
I don't care what their food preference is, I care about the well-being of everyone and that comes with caring about the planet, which includes all species. Humans can live and prosper perfectly fine without hunting whales or dolphins, dolphins and whales can do very little to not get slaughtered by technologically driven super-predators.
So why don't you just use your brain and think on a bigger scale, instead of trying to protect archaic traditions? Maybe give religion more power again in ruling countries? Like come on 🤦♂
data says sheep and lamb are their main supplies of meat, even part of their national cuisine. why risk another species extinction just for their own enjoyment. it's not a necessity
@@JonnoPlays These people’s entire history and existence have been eating whales…. How many whale species do you think these particular people made extinct? Can you name one? If you can’t name one, then stop worrying.
@@cb738they also used to live in huts and not drive around in cars, but they changed those traditions by the looks of it
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That shit PISSES ME OFF!!! Someone needs to stop them. Do something,anything! It's heartbreaking!!
I bet you eat burgers with bacon and chicken without a problem.
You live in a country that has a tradition of enslaving animals. That has not changed
The islanders live in a place where their tradition is not to enslave animals.
Everybody stop doing mean comments I live with her I know everything about it they just eat well there I really think it’s really sad if there’s a lot of blood in the ocean but just please stop being so mean to me mean
Thank you DW for the very informative documentary as usual.
When it comes to traditional reason, there is no questions about it. We may not able to comprehend or understand the Faroese yet that is their traditional way of getting food.
For the activist point of view, I think it's better to not interfere with traditions to avoid conflict.
No one can't force anyone to abandon their own traditional way of life even it is seem abominable to others.
When you wrote this comment did you had in mind that for centuries slavery was also some sort of tradition ?
It was not a tradition but an oppression
Agree with you. Somehow the more people are removed from our traditional way of living the more they cry out for what needs to be done to get food. The city generation today think it's all about tree hugging and they would faint if they had to slaughter a chicken. Nature is not all lovey dovey and we do need to eat. And I would even go as far as saying that the ones who are still more connected to our Mother Earth understand this cyle much more deeply. If you have killed an animal in order to use it as food you have a much more profound understanding of the sacrifice that was made compared to someone who buys some processed and ready to eat meals in the supermarket.
There’s just no need for it in this day and age, when we can import/export goods and like the lad said at the end a lot of there food is imported anyway
The irony. Import other meats that have also been slaughtered but because they are nicely packaged it’s not inhumane
Yeah, there is. They need to eat, and I don't see them importing wheat and eating seaweed. You're being extremely obtuse. Then, send them the money needed to import all the vegan food. Give me a break
@@CCLXIIAnd it costs too much to import their diet. Especially for this tiny population. So many people are ignorant and obtuse.
There is no need for meat bacon either. Industrial pigs sped their lives imprisoned.
OMG
How can you praise industrialized food production over this?
The islanders clearly value animals and nature more than you do, since you praise importing food of animals that have been enslaved, deprived of all natural enviroment and fed in ways that require land to be cleared, biodiversity destroyed and pollutes the enviroment and is pure torture to animals. You praise that and same time bash some islanders who prefer all animals, including the few they eat, lived a good life, free in nature, and do no kill animals for greed or money, but share the food equally among friends and family.
OMG some people are just upside down / hypocritical
its not a whale its a killer whale for god sake they multiply massive