Many people posting about the whaling, The whaling in the Faroe's is a necessity, the catch is shared out among the community for sustenance. No one worries about Sheep Pigs and Cows that are slaughtered, Pilot whales are not on the endangered list and are killed quickly.
there is a kind of nutrients that are in sunlight but in faroe island, we have dont have so much sunlight, but the nutrients are also in the whales so we do it to live. you dont need to do it becose you have more sunlight. so stekka við at siga sovori >:(
@ramcd00642 hey if u lived on those islands or any area with such isolation you would use anything you could to survive too..whether it was whaling or not..think about that
As a point of clarification in Alaska there are no Inuit! [Unless they are ex-pats and not, therefore, native.] There are however Eskimo (or Arctic People, if you are of the overly sensitive type) and Indian people, who are known collectively as Alaska Natives. As a native Alaskan (meaning "born and raised in AK but not of a native people") I'm not blowing sunshine. I grew up in the southern part of AK where there were the Indian (self described) communities existed and went to school in the mi
we have hunted and eaten them ever since the first people arrived.. some of the only other food available was birds, fish and sheep and they don't pack a lot of fat. and don't worry the ecosystem is just fine (apart from the general pollution of the sea) no one is hunting for the whales miles and miles out at sea, it is only when the whales get close enough that the hunt begins, besides if the whales were to simply dive under the boats the whole hunt would basically be over :)
I never thought Faroese had any alikeness to Norwegian worth mentioning, before I heard your accent in English. It's very similar to when Norwegians speak English. Nice scenery anyway, and the girls are beautiful. Greetings, from a brother from a related mother!
I saw a Grindadráp a few years back and I really can't see what the problem is. The whales were killed quickly and humanely, not butchered as many people like to believe. It was exciting to watch but also a little sad to see living things die, but that's the way of the world. You could tell that the people doing the hunting felt the same way, and no one was full of mindless blood lust. They were simply harvesting the sea of its riches. You don't understand a Grindadráp until you see one.
Free range animals are not free. They are still captivated and deprived of their freedom. Unlike you these natives rely much more on real free range animals. Even their sheep´s walk free. They are not deprived of their freedom behind fence. You are clearly bashing the wrong people.
i understand your concern, but the people eating the whales are well aware of the toxins in them, just as well as any smoker would be in regards to their cigarettes. but still people are eating whale meat and people are still smoking, it is a matter of choices that only they are making. all that aside i will agree with you that it used to be barbaric and cruel and the attention that has gotten has brought about changes in the hunting methods trust me :)
@Maryjoends I understand that you get sad of seeing whales die, but you gotta understand how we do it. The whales swim close to our beaches, then we go out after them. Then we kill them in like 2 seconds. When you see them move and swing their tails and everything, its just nerves, when we kill sheep they jump around on the ground, well not really jump around, but move, its the nerves. I hope you learned something friend! Have a good day.
@ramcd00642 Hey, can you please tell me, how is it bad that we kill whales? Do you know how we do it? The time we take to kill them? Do you have any idea how it is going on?
@Maryjoends The Faroese need the whale meat for survival just as the Inuits of Alaska do. The only difference is the Inuits hunt endangered species of whale and the Faroese hunt non-endangered pilot whales. Have you been there? Have you met with any Faroese? If so, you would know how much they need it to subsidize the incredibly high cost of living, since everything must be imported by the limited shipping to the Faroe Islands.
...went to school in the middle of AK [most of you reading this would consider it "north"] where more of the Native population were Eskimo - also self described. My home town has a technical school which was/is widely attended by people of both genetic backgrounds. According to the communities that I grew up with, knew from my close association with the tech school, and worked alongside with when I was older - Inuits lived next door - in Canada. No self respecting Eskimo would ever self describ
A industrilized animals has a sad life, deprived of any freedom. They get pumped with chemicals and jail under worst circumstances in tiny cages, till they get mass murdered in huge death camps in just as bloody brutal ways. Do not kid your self.
Meg Moses yes we are viking desendants from norvay landed on faroe in year 833 and we have the oldest parliament in the world and the oldest wooden house were the same family have lived fore 17 generations and still live in started in 1500 and wee have traitional small vikingbouts
@ramcd00642 well there is not really alot we can do, I don't participate I don't eat it. But there are a whole bunch of greenpeace folks coming in a week or so, and i'm glad. Other than that I don't know what to do, have you ever been here ?
@tasteegold777 I'm not saying we are poor, just that the whale doesn't go to waste (many people believe that we kill it, then throw it away) Alto the Faroe Islands are in a bit of a financial trouble right now. And the fishing. we are very careful not to fish to much, manly because it's our lives support. So if we take to many fish, there isn't anything for the future generation.
@Maryjoends Can't you read? I said it wasn't a ritual where young boys become men. And FYI most people who have seen the Grindadráp in real life, don't think it's that horrific. even people who are big members of greenpeace etc. etc. there was this one exchange student from Australia, who was second in charge of some greenpeace like organisation. But when she saw the grindadráp with her own eyes, she thought it was pretty cool. So don't make your mind up, before you have seen it yourself.
The methods used are as efficient, quick and effective as any slaughter. That is acknowledge by any one with basic knowledge about what is going on here and during any slaughter. Yes, looks brutal, but so would any slaughter of big animals in ope waters be. It only takes little blood to pain the sea red. Our industrialized slaughter is also not a pretty sight. Do not judge these people harsher then you judge any that eats industrialized meat. That would be hypocritical
Its just as neccosarry or just as unnessorary to kill this kind of animal for food, as any other food. You can pick out Any single food source and claim humans can survive without that single source. But the point is that these natives prefer this kind of animals over others and its far better for both nature and animals that they prefer animals that actually lived a good life, free in nature, then any industrialized food.
I have an Australian airman buried at Midvaag Military Cemetery. So far from home. I would be grateful if someone could take a photo and forward it to me. Their aircraft crashed into a hill at Nakkur and all five of the crew were killed. TURNER, GEOFFREY PHILIP Sergeant 406510 612sq Iceland 9/11/1942 33 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 2. MIDVAAG MILITARY CEMETERY Faroe Islands
I'm sorry that I can't do anything to help you regarding your request. However, I hope someone in the Faeroes reads your message and can send you the photo that you've requested. Good luck.
Greetings from The Faroe Islands! I will happily try to find the grave and send tou a photo of it. I live quite far away from Miðvágur, though, so I will have to make the trip in the weekend. I will try to get back to you with the picture next week. Take care! Kind regards, Sissal.
Interesting comment, especially to a Brit. I can only assume that you are a Brit and darker but since the Anglo Saxon complexion has historically been described as 'fair' and we also hear of the 'peaches and cream' complexion of our British girls, it is quite an odd comment.
@KingsnazurClick Listen up my friend. no matter how hard you try and justify slaughtering the whales, it's just that, slaughter in no other terms, pure and simple.
As far as I know Pilot whales are not endangered unlike the species that the Japanese hunted in Antarctica. I don't see any harm done. Here in America in some states we have legalized deer hunting seasons; starting with bow, then rifle, then muzzleloader. In a sense it's not any different than harvesting whale meat but people here don't get worked up over deer hunters like they do whale harvesters. Believe me, America is full of hypocrisy.
Your point was that it was unhealthy, I responded to a comment made by you. But this point of yours is pretty good. But still, I don't understand why people are so fond of these whales...Are you a vegetarian? It's a bit hypocritical being against whale slaughter and not having a problem with Pigs or Cows being slaughtered....
@Maryjoends No they're not fake, but somehow propaganda. everything is horrible if you put sad or dramatic music to it. And what you read on the internet about grindadráp, at least half of it are lies. I'm saying, if you see it with your own eyes, it may not that horrible.
Pt 3: the Last No self respecting Eskimo would ever self describe as "Inuit" unless they actually cared enough to make you cheechakos feel more comfortable. Call it 1 out of ... ... nope ... instances. Much like the Faroese in their immense sense of cultural pride, in fact. On to the point regarding whaling. As an *educated* hippy, unless you the reader or poster are -completely- living off your land and harvesting EVERYTHING you consume (down to your water) you don't, IMO, get to throw rocks
@Maryjoends I wonder. Are you a vegetarian? How can you feel more pity for these whales than for a closer relative like a calf? You need to understand we're Carnivores. We eat meat. Whale meat is delicious, and as long as we kill them in a humane way there is nothing wrong with it. They feel little to no pain because their braines stop functioning from the lack of blood. This is why you are so shocked, because of the bloody sea. But trust me when i say the pain last only a second.
ther was a war between on one side norvay and sveden helped bay england and other side denmark denmark was lousing and england forced them to take iceland faroe island orkney shetland and the hebrids the shetland orkney and hebrids was given away ween a danish princess was merryed to a schottic prince and iceland was a country in 1958 so its only faroe island greenland came later
@lesrhac03 Dude we have small whales but not dolphin's and this is not barbaric that we do, it's natural, and we kill them the most humaine way possible hope you understand :D.
@Maryjoends We are well aware of the health hazards of eating pilot whale meat. Infact we probably know better than you. But we should still be allowed to eat it. It's a choice. You'd probably ban smoking if you had the chance.
Sissal.D thank you very much. I do not wish to put my email up for others to see. Can you send me a message to my facebook account Geoff Swallow and I wil reply to you with an address. Regards Geoff Swallow Melbourne Australia
"British people tend to be slightly darker?" .. most people I know think british are pale sad faces. And that is not because of lack of sun, coz they get more sun hours than many Nordic people. I think its the food and sad lifestyle British have that gives them the famous pale look. Totally do not understand why you think they are slightly darker
Why would you even care if they kill wales? They don't do it for fun, you know, the've been doing it for centuries because they need to feed themselves somehow. Would you rather see the Faroese people dying of starvation? That's pretty selfish, you've got to admit it.
I'm faroese ik those whales are CUTE but it is used for food, we make most food by ourselfs not by waiting for ships we do not have as many crops here, please understand
Build a Walmart! Make these people eat cornflakes and wear clothes made from petroleum products! We've nearly run out of Native Peoples here in america, They can always go to a food bank with the money they make from the big W.
What a great video. I love the Faroe Islands, such a beautiful country and culture.
Thank you very much, I love my Country and want to share it with others
Beautyful to see as my grandfather was Harry James of Fleetwood near Blackpool. He was an english soldier in the Faroe Islands during WW2.
What a wonderful video that gives a great image of the Faroe Islands. Thank you so much for making this video.
Many people posting about the whaling, The whaling in the Faroe's is a necessity, the catch is shared out among the community for sustenance.
No one worries about Sheep Pigs and Cows that are slaughtered, Pilot whales are not on the endangered list and are killed quickly.
@@TomuCow The only ignorance here is you
Exactly, See you get it
@ablair37 good on ya mate :O) was there in september to see my english family wonderful ppl blackpoolers are. i felt very welcome
i love this , a fantastic history,, , i followed it,, Not only the past,, but the youth, enjoy the spirit of community
A place of zero longitude(zero time)Odin's eye the Vikings knew it well. The secret knowledge is being revealled at this time.Nyvlem stone
there is a kind of nutrients that are in sunlight but in faroe island, we have dont have so much sunlight, but the nutrients are also in the whales
so we do it to live.
you dont need to do it becose you have more sunlight.
so stekka við at siga sovori >:(
@lesrhac03 why not?
@ramcd00642 hey if u lived on those islands or any area with such isolation you would use anything you could to survive too..whether it was whaling or not..think about that
As a point of clarification in Alaska there are no Inuit! [Unless they are ex-pats and not, therefore, native.]
There are however Eskimo (or Arctic People, if you are of the overly sensitive type) and Indian people, who are known collectively as Alaska Natives. As a native Alaskan (meaning "born and raised in AK but not of a native people") I'm not blowing sunshine.
I grew up in the southern part of AK where there were the Indian (self described) communities existed and went to school in the mi
we have hunted and eaten them ever since the first people arrived.. some of the only other food available was birds, fish and sheep and they don't pack a lot of fat. and don't worry the ecosystem is just fine (apart from the general pollution of the sea) no one is hunting for the whales miles and miles out at sea, it is only when the whales get close enough that the hunt begins, besides if the whales were to simply dive under the boats the whole hunt would basically be over :)
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I never thought Faroese had any alikeness to Norwegian worth mentioning, before I heard your accent in English. It's very similar to when Norwegians speak English. Nice scenery anyway, and the girls are beautiful.
Greetings, from a brother from a related mother!
@Maryjoends
What about Svalbard? They eat whale there too. And they really need it to survive.
Are you gonna judge them too?
@3:45 What is the music?
Does they plant any forests there ???
We have a park
@3:45 Anyone know that name of the song?
I saw a Grindadráp a few years back and I really can't see what the problem is. The whales were killed quickly and humanely, not butchered as many people like to believe. It was exciting to watch but also a little sad to see living things die, but that's the way of the world. You could tell that the people doing the hunting felt the same way, and no one was full of mindless blood lust. They were simply harvesting the sea of its riches. You don't understand a Grindadráp until you see one.
Free range animals are not free. They are still captivated and deprived of their freedom. Unlike you these natives rely much more on real free range animals. Even their sheep´s walk free. They are not deprived of their freedom behind fence. You are clearly bashing the wrong people.
@PumpkinFabulous Cool, but what are you and others doing about stopping the slaughter?
i understand your concern, but the people eating the whales are well aware of the toxins in them, just as well as any smoker would be in regards to their cigarettes. but still people are eating whale meat and people are still smoking, it is a matter of choices that only they are making. all that aside i will agree with you that it used to be barbaric and cruel and the attention that has gotten has brought about changes in the hunting methods trust me :)
@ramcd00642 a tsunami wont bother them, they live on high mountains
@Maryjoends I understand that you get sad of seeing whales die, but you gotta understand how we do it. The whales swim close to our beaches, then we go out after them. Then we kill them in like 2 seconds. When you see them move and swing their tails and everything, its just nerves, when we kill sheep they jump around on the ground, well not really jump around, but move, its the nerves. I hope you learned something friend! Have a good day.
@ramcd00642 Hey, can you please tell me, how is it bad that we kill whales? Do you know how we do it? The time we take to kill them? Do you have any idea how it is going on?
@Maryjoends The Faroese need the whale meat for survival just as the Inuits of Alaska do. The only difference is the Inuits hunt endangered species of whale and the Faroese hunt non-endangered pilot whales.
Have you been there? Have you met with any Faroese? If so, you would know how much they need it to subsidize the incredibly high cost of living, since everything must be imported by the limited shipping to the Faroe Islands.
same here
...went to school in the middle of AK [most of you reading this would consider it "north"] where more of the Native population were Eskimo - also self described. My home town has a technical school which was/is widely attended by people of both genetic backgrounds. According to the communities that I grew up with, knew from my close association with the tech school, and worked alongside with when I was older - Inuits lived next door - in Canada.
No self respecting Eskimo would ever self describ
A industrilized animals has a sad life, deprived of any freedom. They get pumped with chemicals and jail under worst circumstances in tiny cages, till they get mass murdered in huge death camps in just as bloody brutal ways. Do not kid your self.
omg... Oo
I have seen places on my homeland, that I didn't even know existed... Oo
why?
i thought you belonged to the Vikings the artists of the sea, the artists of the culture, the artists of creative crafts,, and great warriors,
Meg Moses yes we are viking desendants from norvay landed on faroe in year 833 and we have the oldest parliament in the world and the oldest wooden house were the same family have lived fore 17 generations and still live in started in 1500 and wee have traitional small vikingbouts
We are Of Viking and Irish mixed heritage
@ramcd00642 well there is not really alot we can do, I don't participate I don't eat it.
But there are a whole bunch of greenpeace folks coming in a week or so, and i'm glad. Other than that I don't know what to do, have you ever been here ?
@narcowboi I know..? I wasn't talking about the reporter.
@tasteegold777 I'm not saying we are poor, just that the whale doesn't go to waste (many people believe that we kill it, then throw it away)
Alto the Faroe Islands are in a bit of a financial trouble right now.
And the fishing. we are very careful not to fish to much, manly because it's our lives support. So if we take to many fish, there isn't anything for the future generation.
Now I feel proud to be Faroese
Same here, I love my home
@R3troguy yeah, its kinda what i meant
@Maryjoends Can't you read? I said it wasn't a ritual where young boys become men.
And FYI most people who have seen the Grindadráp in real life, don't think it's that horrific.
even people who are big members of greenpeace etc. etc.
there was this one exchange student from Australia, who was second in charge of some greenpeace like organisation. But when she saw the grindadráp with her own eyes, she thought it was pretty cool. So don't make your mind up, before you have seen it yourself.
The methods used are as efficient, quick and effective as any slaughter. That is acknowledge by any one with basic knowledge about what is going on here and during any slaughter. Yes, looks brutal, but so would any slaughter of big animals in ope waters be. It only takes little blood to pain the sea red. Our industrialized slaughter is also not a pretty sight. Do not judge these people harsher then you judge any that eats industrialized meat. That would be hypocritical
Its just as neccosarry or just as unnessorary to kill this kind of animal for food, as any other food. You can pick out Any single food source and claim humans can survive without that single source.
But the point is that these natives prefer this kind of animals over others and its far better for both nature and animals that they prefer animals that actually lived a good life, free in nature, then any industrialized food.
I have an Australian airman buried at Midvaag Military Cemetery. So far from home. I would be grateful if someone could take a photo and forward it to me. Their aircraft crashed into a hill at Nakkur and all five of the crew were killed. TURNER, GEOFFREY PHILIP
Sergeant
406510
612sq Iceland
9/11/1942
33
Royal Australian Air Force
Australian
Grave 2.
MIDVAAG MILITARY CEMETERY
Faroe Islands
I'm sorry that I can't do anything to help you regarding your request. However, I hope someone in the Faeroes reads your message and can send you the photo that you've requested. Good luck.
Greetings from The Faroe Islands!
I will happily try to find the grave and send tou a photo of it. I live quite far away from Miðvágur, though, so I will have to make the trip in the weekend. I will try to get back to you with the picture next week.
Take care!
Kind regards,
Sissal.
Geoff Swallow I have taken the photos now. Where can I send them to you?
That was so kind of you.@@sissald2647
@Maryjoends The Faroese hunt less than 0.1% of the population of the pilot whales... 1,370,000 pilot whales in the northern oceans.
@hedin73 i live in blackpool ...sea siders :D
@R3troguy no i said, ''The whales swim close to our beaches, then we go out after them.'' i meant that we beached them, then killed them.
Interesting comment, especially to a Brit. I can only assume that you are a Brit and darker but since the Anglo Saxon complexion has historically been described as 'fair' and we also hear of the 'peaches and cream' complexion of our British girls, it is quite an odd comment.
@ramcd00642 Slaugther...The wrong word for the Grind
2:22 so hot
seems like they dont have any problems.....
Unfortunately the British soldiers weren't this kind in their occupation of India.
More natural to get your nutrition via natural food instead of getting it via chemical processed biochemistry tablets that can cause liver damage.
Good for you guys in the Faroes! Don't make the same mistake as your Scandinavian brothers and start bringing in the Muslims!
@KingsnazurClick Listen up my friend. no matter how hard you try and justify slaughtering the whales, it's just that, slaughter in no other terms, pure and simple.
As far as I know Pilot whales are not endangered unlike the species that the Japanese hunted in Antarctica. I don't see any harm done. Here in America in some states we have legalized deer hunting seasons; starting with bow, then rifle, then muzzleloader. In a sense it's not any different than harvesting whale meat but people here don't get worked up over deer hunters like they do whale harvesters. Believe me, America is full of hypocrisy.
Your point was that it was unhealthy, I responded to a comment made by you.
But this point of yours is pretty good. But still, I don't understand why people are so fond of these whales...Are you a vegetarian? It's a bit hypocritical being against whale slaughter and not having a problem with Pigs or Cows being slaughtered....
@joakim2k10 sorry but the reporter is Scottish so is his accent :)
@Maryjoends No they're not fake, but somehow propaganda. everything is horrible if you put sad or dramatic music to it. And what you read on the internet about grindadráp, at least half of it are lies.
I'm saying, if you see it with your own eyes, it may not that horrible.
Pt 3: the Last
No self respecting Eskimo would ever self describe as "Inuit" unless they actually cared enough to make you cheechakos feel more comfortable. Call it 1 out of ... ... nope ... instances. Much like the Faroese in their immense sense of cultural pride, in fact.
On to the point regarding whaling. As an *educated* hippy, unless you the reader or poster are -completely- living off your land and harvesting EVERYTHING you consume (down to your water) you don't, IMO, get to throw rocks
@Dreestwd YOu said it ;)
@Maryjoends I wonder. Are you a vegetarian? How can you feel more pity for these whales than for a closer relative like a calf?
You need to understand we're Carnivores. We eat meat. Whale meat is delicious, and as long as we kill them in a humane way there is nothing wrong with it.
They feel little to no pain because their braines stop functioning from the lack of blood. This is why you are so shocked, because of the bloody sea. But trust me when i say the pain last only a second.
Norway does the settling and building the homes and all the hard work and Denmark gets to rule the Faroe Islands...
ther was a war between on one side norvay and sveden helped bay england and other side denmark denmark was lousing and england forced them to take iceland faroe island orkney shetland and the hebrids the shetland orkney and hebrids was given away ween a danish princess was merryed to a schottic prince and iceland was a country in 1958 so its only faroe island greenland came later
denmark is noth ruling faroe islands have own gowerment
denmark is noth ruling faroe islands have own gowerment
@lesrhac03 Dude we have small whales but not dolphin's and this is not barbaric that we do, it's natural, and we kill them the most humaine way possible hope you understand :D.
Free range are not free. They are all captivated, deprived of their freedom. Try again.
Oh my god! Just enjoy the thing!
They look like almost-Norwegians to me, but sure.
@ramcd00642 well I live here and I don't fuck with the whales, can I live ?
@Ozrielos oh the ignorance.
@Maryjoends We are well aware of the health hazards of eating pilot whale meat. Infact we probably know better than you. But we should still be allowed to eat it.
It's a choice. You'd probably ban smoking if you had the chance.
D'ont know about the whale killing, sitting here with a full stomach, easy to say horrible, however their must be a better way.
Sissal.D thank you very much. I do not wish to put my email up for others to see. Can you send me a message to my facebook account Geoff Swallow and I wil reply to you with an address.
Regards
Geoff Swallow
Melbourne
Australia
I have sent you a message on Facebook :-)
@ramcd00642 in your dreams
7:10 hah! Try to graffiti that you little teen punks!
"British people tend to be slightly darker?" .. most people I know think british are pale sad faces. And that is not because of lack of sun, coz they get more sun hours than many Nordic people. I think its the food and sad lifestyle British have that gives them the famous pale look. Totally do not understand why you think they are slightly darker
Why would you even care if they kill wales? They don't do it for fun, you know, the've been doing it for centuries because they need to feed themselves somehow. Would you rather see the Faroese people dying of starvation? That's pretty selfish, you've got to admit it.
sorry i meant to say whales not wales.
0:50 poor wales :(
:( i still feel bad for those whales... it is not necessary anymore to kill them...
I'm faroese ik those whales are CUTE but it is used for food, we make most food by ourselfs not by waiting for ships we do not have as many crops here, please understand
Build a Walmart! Make these people eat cornflakes and wear clothes made from petroleum products! We've nearly run out of Native Peoples here in america, They can always go to a food bank with the money they make from the big W.
home to the whale slaughter
Fuck the whales
Craig Harkins thy motto - when they called out for brains you thought they said trains and replied make mine a toy one
toller retreiver
Nah man. I'd want a real choo choo.
Craig Harkins dumber than dirt
toller retreiver
Nah man. I'm like sand level.