The whole idea of the article is pr marketing by the cruise ship, lol.

The cruise line is concerned about upsetting their passengers, that is all.

Sustainability of the things that entertain their passengers so the cruise line can continue to make more money.

Yes, it is rich. Rich people pretending to be responsible.

Why even hunt whales in the first place? Sure, it's one big food source when you snag one, but people who have tried whale say it's bland and uninteresting. It's just a bunch of fat. And it takes a lot of effort to kill it, haul it, parse it out, etc.

Fish farms give you much more good quality meat without all of the species endangerment.

Yes, this whale has been killed in a perfectly harmless way

We just line them up against the wall and shoot them in the blowhole. It's the most humane way, really. /s

Yes, this whale has been killed in a perfectly harmless way

Southpark predicted this timeline

Cruiselines should f off anyway, because we're at the start of an ever growing climate crisis and cruise ships are the worst carbon emitters of all passenger transports. Those meat eating hypocrites aboard need a lesson in how we treat animals and the planet these days.

I mean it's partly the passengers desires that lead them there, cruise lines don't just pick arbitrary ports, they go where people want.

They shouldn't have apologized at all, they should have just been like "and this is what Faroe is like at this time of year, you're welcome that we were able to show you this unique experience"

Are you talking about the orcas that are doing it apparently for shits and giggles or is there bigger underwater uprising on the way?

Mister Nimbus has had enough!

Yeah, if the people on the cruise genuinely cared about the environment, they wouldn't be on a cruise, it's one of the most polluting ways to see the world, it not only directly hurts the ocean and everything in it, and everyone who depends on it (and not many people actually do any more, and like you say, most of those on board are probably eating animals), but the air too, and in a potential shift to battery powered ships, whatever damage making those causes, as well as other shit like by bringing covid to islands.

Blaming the destruction of the ocean on islanders sustaining themselves and not on the companies dumping garbage and pouring sewage and oil and god knows what else in to the sea, and the people who literally profit from dong that (like from them, on the cruise), is quite foul.

i agree. some values are universal, like what should be considered cruel, but slaughtering pigs is pretty cruel too (i eat them anyways!). to me, what's funny here is how privileged first world people just hate to see how the hot dog is made, so to speak.

it's like privileged people hating to simply see homeless people in cities even though the system that makes people homeless is necessary to keep the high property values that they benefit from. the mere witness of the cruelty we benefit from in modern society makes the privileged one feel like a victim.

I'm on the Faroe islands right now. This isn't exactly a climate or geology fit for large scale farming, so you're right in that being a vegetarian would have been rough here. Even now quality veggies seem hard to find in the small villages. Everything needs to be imported.

Not saying I approve, but there's carve outs when the whaling is part of a local tradition. Also, Pilot Whales are in the Least Concern category, so they're not going extinct from this.

Protection only goes so far and is basically in enforced since no one is going to be willing to go to war to enforce these regs. Look at what the Japanese do.. These hunts also use boats to herd them into inlets that are not in international waters for slaughter.

Additionally the folks in the Faroe Islands may have some type of exemption for certain things as they consider whaling a part of their culture/cultural traditions.

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