Interesting work you do mate. Funny that i stumbled across you on "Mossy Earth" channel...and looked familiar, then remembered : Was in your band's concert a little while back! I would recommend doing a bit of journalism on top of this : involving government body interviews about each matter & conservationist statements as a backstory/info about what's being done and how these events affect the ecosystem!
Thanks! I hope you enjoyed the show of my band :) About your suggestion of journalism it's a good point, but I am more an activist myself rather than an objective journalist. I film video mainly to show a lot of interesting volunteering projects, volunteer myself and also show the process of volunteering to encourage others.
@@BeBraveToAct about journalism : it's more about providing info about the matter, like : Why are things the way they are / what's being done about it/ what are the results etc etc. Still nice to see quality work!
Great video explaining the grind and the mentality - and also the need to be a vocal tourist. This is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and people should flock to it - and loudly state that they don't appreciate the slaughter. Amazing work!
If humanism means good values and dignity, what I just watched was not only cruel but with a full meaning of unhuman. Does this mean we can destroy anything we want, under the name of “culture”??? To some extent, I do understand the wrong or undesired practices of the "LESS privilege countries" due to their limitation to the most basic resources, but here in the heart of ALL the PRIVILEGES, you choose to hide your ignorance under the name of “culture”. You can stay blind but rest of us, who can question any act before putting into action, will be watching with deep pain your cruelty and CHOOSE to protect them under any cultural nonesense!!! All the ones who are Brave to ACT; Thank you very much for being the voice of those who cant. Truly amazing video with lots of sadness in it.
Prefering local organic food from a sources that is not endangered, does not pollute and not killed for money, unlike almost all the meat killed and eaten rest of the world, is the opposite of cruel or destroying nature
It is disturbing to see a historical practice, once tied to survival, now devolved into an act of collective cruelty. This massacre no longer has anything to do with respecting traditions, but rather seems to satisfy destructive instincts. By showing their children that death can be dealt so easily, without thought or respect, they are sowing violence instead of empathy. Teaching the next generation that life, in all its forms, is precious should be our legacy, not one of senseless slaughter that disrupts the balance of our world.
A kilo or two sold in the super market does not change the fact of the statement that the hurding of pilot whales is not done with the purpose of commercial gain, as 99.99% of the meat is consumed by the locals, shared with neighboors and the elderly in the region, all free.
This is a good video and I appreciate you cleaning up the beaches when you can, but I must disagree with you in part. While the Grindadrap is a fairly brutal practice, why attack the community and small-scale local business on the island when compared to larger and more powerful companies, the faroe's whaling and fishing practices have many times less environmental impact? Isn't it punching down against local fisheries and effectively eliminating competition to larger oceanic monopolies like the various Chinese fishing companies that make business by causing local mass-extinctions in ocean ecosystems? In general across the west, we're basically the only countries in the world that care en masse about emissions and pollution, and we have various groups actively policing environmental harms here. Yet the people actually responsible in the global community for the most environmental harm--which are unsurprisingly not western and not developed/educated countries--are, but we don't even lift a finger against them... Demonizing the faroese for their communal fishing practices is not just unfair, but also impractical from an environmental preservation standpoint, as its not heavily industrialized and hence not as harmful to the local ecosystem or populations.
Enviromental scientist here .. I agree, I think this is only an example of how human distroy in the name of habits their habitat. And if the Dolpins keep coming for generations.... maybe it is less important that the terrible habits of common man. (plastic, pesteside ect...) This culture remind me a bit the ancient culture of european with the bear cults.
The title is misleading. The islanders slaughter around 800 pilot whales a year, in average. Some years more some years 0. The islanders do not go out hunting whales, but only if they stumble upon a pod while fishing, and only if the pod is large enough, and only if the pod is near a designated beach, and only if there are enough villagers able to help, only then do they go through with the hearding of the pod to the nearest approved beach. That also means that there is no beach on the islands where a slaughter takes place every year. Again, the title is misleading as that beach may have absolute 0 slaughter happening on it for years
This year already slaughtered 906 cetaceans. Some pods were as little as 5 dolphins, or 8 pilot whales. Here are stats : facebook.com/photo/?fbid=696133989219079&set=a.371748331657648 This beach on a thumbnail from Leynar where 179 pilot whales killed on 14/06/23 . Instead of "on this beach" I can use "in Faroe Islands" for title. But what does it change ?
@@BeBraveToAct It depends on your agenda. If your purpose is convince people with real facts, then having accuracy where it counts is important. I see you have changed the title, to a less misleading statement
Well there are a lot of barberians over other plasces.. like government for example... I don't think this is a good tradition to keep to this day, but it can be a tradition only for the yought to try once not every year...
Completely accurate - chimes perfectly with my experience there of about two months...
Thanks for bringing this to light
Great video! Really well said
Appreciate it!
Interesting work you do mate.
Funny that i stumbled across you on "Mossy Earth" channel...and looked familiar, then remembered : Was in your band's concert a little while back!
I would recommend doing a bit of journalism on top of this : involving government body interviews about each matter & conservationist statements as a backstory/info about what's being done and how these events affect the ecosystem!
Thanks! I hope you enjoyed the show of my band :)
About your suggestion of journalism it's a good point, but I am more an activist myself rather than an objective journalist. I film video mainly to show a lot of interesting volunteering projects, volunteer myself and also show the process of volunteering to encourage others.
@@BeBraveToAct about journalism : it's more about providing info about the matter, like : Why are things the way they are / what's being done about it/ what are the results etc etc.
Still nice to see quality work!
Thank you for highlighting this so well, I am recently back from being there on campaign & we will not stop until they do!
Thank you for participating in a campaign! Surely we are not going to stop until this barbaric tradition exist
Great video. A very sad situation!
JUST WOW!! i cannot believe this is aloud to happen, they are sick in the head
I disagree
Eating local organic food from animals that actually had a good life is better for the enviroment than any industrialized food
Great video explaining the grind and the mentality - and also the need to be a vocal tourist. This is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and people should flock to it - and loudly state that they don't appreciate the slaughter.
Amazing work!
Thank you Samuel ! You are doing amazing job.
R u vegan? Ppl.gitta eat
Any attempt to "boycott" the islands has just lead to more people wanting to visit and support the islands
If humanism means good values and dignity, what I just watched was not only cruel but with a full meaning of unhuman. Does this mean we can destroy anything we want, under the name of “culture”??? To some extent, I do understand the wrong or undesired practices of the "LESS privilege countries" due to their limitation to the most basic resources, but here in the heart of ALL the PRIVILEGES, you choose to hide your ignorance under the name of “culture”. You can stay blind but rest of us, who can question any act before putting into action, will be watching with deep pain your cruelty and CHOOSE to protect them under any cultural nonesense!!!
All the ones who are Brave to ACT; Thank you very much for being the voice of those who cant. Truly amazing video with lots of sadness in it.
Prefering local organic food from a sources that is not endangered, does not pollute and not killed for money, unlike almost all the meat killed and eaten rest of the world, is the opposite of cruel or destroying nature
This video should be on trending. Damn fine videography here and solid story telling on a subject not many people know about.
Thank you!
It is disturbing to see a historical practice, once tied to survival, now devolved into an act of collective cruelty. This massacre no longer has anything to do with respecting traditions, but rather seems to satisfy destructive instincts. By showing their children that death can be dealt so easily, without thought or respect, they are sowing violence instead of empathy. Teaching the next generation that life, in all its forms, is precious should be our legacy, not one of senseless slaughter that disrupts the balance of our world.
Very well said. Thank you
If someone ban grindas slaughter, why shouldn't they ban cattle slaughtering as well?
Great Idea
A kilo or two sold in the super market does not change the fact of the statement that the hurding of pilot whales is not done with the purpose of commercial gain, as 99.99% of the meat is consumed by the locals, shared with neighboors and the elderly in the region, all free.
Thank you for this accurate reportage ☺️
stop killing animals even in the 🇫🇴!
Thank you !
Don't f**k with other peoples traditions. Cool pictures u got of it.
Tradition is no excuse for abusing animals.
This is a good video and I appreciate you cleaning up the beaches when you can, but I must disagree with you in part. While the Grindadrap is a fairly brutal practice, why attack the community and small-scale local business on the island when compared to larger and more powerful companies, the faroe's whaling and fishing practices have many times less environmental impact? Isn't it punching down against local fisheries and effectively eliminating competition to larger oceanic monopolies like the various Chinese fishing companies that make business by causing local mass-extinctions in ocean ecosystems? In general across the west, we're basically the only countries in the world that care en masse about emissions and pollution, and we have various groups actively policing environmental harms here. Yet the people actually responsible in the global community for the most environmental harm--which are unsurprisingly not western and not developed/educated countries--are, but we don't even lift a finger against them... Demonizing the faroese for their communal fishing practices is not just unfair, but also impractical from an environmental preservation standpoint, as its not heavily industrialized and hence not as harmful to the local ecosystem or populations.
Grindadrap is a brutal hunting practice that should be banned in 21st century Europe. The same as industrial meat production. Don't you agree?
Enviromental scientist here .. I agree, I think this is only an example of how human distroy in the name of habits their habitat. And if the Dolpins keep coming for generations.... maybe it is less important that the terrible habits of common man. (plastic, pesteside ect...)
This culture remind me a bit the ancient culture of european with the bear cults.
The title is misleading.
The islanders slaughter around 800 pilot whales a year, in average. Some years more some years 0.
The islanders do not go out hunting whales, but only if they stumble upon a pod while fishing, and only if the pod is large enough, and only if the pod is near a designated beach, and only if there are enough villagers able to help, only then do they go through with the hearding of the pod to the nearest approved beach. That also means that there is no beach on the islands where a slaughter takes place every year. Again, the title is misleading as that beach may have absolute 0 slaughter happening on it for years
This year already slaughtered 906 cetaceans. Some pods were as little as 5 dolphins, or 8 pilot whales. Here are stats : facebook.com/photo/?fbid=696133989219079&set=a.371748331657648
This beach on a thumbnail from Leynar where 179 pilot whales killed on 14/06/23 . Instead of "on this beach" I can use "in Faroe Islands" for title. But what does it change ?
@@BeBraveToAct It depends on your agenda. If your purpose is convince people with real facts, then having accuracy where it counts is important.
I see you have changed the title, to a less misleading statement
Are they pagan? What is their tradition?
Based Faroese
This brutal hunting practice should be banned. 100%
Are u vegan?
@@midlifebrologic I'm vegetarian
木も草も生きてるよ。あなたに食べられるために生きてはいない。あなたが、病気になったときは薬を飲むでしょ。その薬も多くの動物の犠牲になって生産されてる。
動物も植物もすべて生きてる。人はその生命を食べて、命をつないでいる。命を馬鹿にするな。
But the dolphi in China rivers dosent mater,
Why do you think they doesn't matter ?
This is no Tradition 😢
yo bro, you filmed me without asking for permission at the grind. btw the whales tasted soooo good
No permission needed, you were part of a public event. He filmed the event, not you as a person. I thought you were proud of this tradition of yours?
This should definitely be stopped...😢..this day and age..these people are barbarians
how come?
Well there are a lot of barberians over other plasces.. like government for example...
I don't think this is a good tradition to keep to this day, but it can be a tradition only for the yought to try once not every year...
Not humans. All are patients. Lunatics.