End Calderon Dolphin Slaughter
Every year in Denmark (Faroe Islands), around 2,000 Calderon Dolphins are slaughtered for their flesh and as a “heroic” pratice to show manhood.
It is necessary to mention that the Calderon Dolphin, like All other world wide Dolphins, are in danger of extinction.
Entire pods of these intelligent sea mammals are herded into coves by boaters. They are driven onto shore to be killed. Terrified animals see and hear their family members being ripped apart. (The sea remains a bright bloody red for days after the hunt.) Fishermen slice the whales heads and other body parts with sharp knives, while they are still alive and thrashing to escape. If the whales do not go ‘willingly’ onto shore, a long, metal hook will be inserted into their blowholes and they will be literally dragged onto the rocky shore.
Undercover video has shown that some animals take up to an hour to finally die after being hauled onto the beach and cut into.
Young children are allowed to participate in these disturbing mass hunts. They may help kill the whales. Is this really something that should be shown and taught to the future generation? Should we preach violence to them?
Lets stop this massacre!
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This is a deplorable situation. How can people with any concience do this to these creatures? It’s beyond my understanding, and it must be stopped!
…these monsters do not belong on this earth. The children have no hope of growing up with respect for any creature. Everyone should boycott holidays and goods from this godforsaken place!
This horrible thing should be stopped with an immidieate effect. Where is the Danish Government, we must ban DENMARK PRODUCTS unless they stop this Hell thing. It is so horrible that I will not allow my children to see this pictures.
I’ve signed. I feel very strongly about this and want to know what else we can do? Will you be taking this petition to the government? Which government? I’m from the UK – presumably there are organisations already trying to stop this slaughter and I’d like to help out in any way I can, making our government, the environment minister more aware, DEFRA must surely know about this. We need to put pressure on the European ministers to make Denmark and the Faroe Islands stop this
Hi Chris,
Perhaps you could contact one of these organisations and ask how you could help in their campaigns:
http://www.campaign-whale.org/campaigns/the-faroes-cruel-whale-slaughter
http://www.seashepherd.org/whales/danish-faeroe-islands.html
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Statesman and Philosopher
“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.” – Rachel Carson, American Author and Marine Biologist
“My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.” – Anna Sewell, English Novelist
“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
The above pretty much says it all …
This is obviously part of the culture of the Faroees people. No doubt it started 100′s of year ago as a sort of rites of passage for young men and to celebrate spring. A sort of harvest festival. No doubt they would use every part of the animal for food or clothes etc.. However in this day and age this ritual is not necessary. As in many cultures they can still celebrate some sort of ritual without the mass killing of such an intelligent animal. However you cannot demand people to change their culture. This is a very arrogant attitude.
The Danes are a very intelligent and proud people and therefore I am sure that with dialoge this abhorrent practice can be stopped. Lets not forget we still had stag and fox hunting in the UK untill very recently. So lets not judge the Danes but explain why this must be stopped.
This nothing short of a barbaric act by a nation of people who get there kicks by murdering defenceless animals, even those who do not take part in murdering these animals are just as guilty by not standing up for the morals that I think a lot of them have, making a stand to defend these dolphins.
The Danish government is also just as guilty.
My message to them is look at the way you are allowing your people retain their war like characteristics and making it much easier for them to kill.
And not just Dolphins.
If this is to do with fulfilling a food requirement then it can be done in a way that will cause less or no pain to a defenceless animal. In fact a human way, not an inhuman and barbaric way.
This must be stopped now.
Lets see Denmark move forward to join the human race, not stay in the dark ages.
WTF!! I planned on traveling to Denmark not anymore, nor will I purchase anything they sell. My suggestion to the men of Denmark is to leave the dolphins alone and practice hacking off each others body parts to prove their manhood. This practice of hacking up a defenseless, intelligent mammal and slaughtered for no good reason is uncomprehensible! How manly could this really be, I think these men are cowards, what’s next defenseless women and children? This behavior is beyond my comprehension and very disturbing! I can’t imagine how they rationalize this behavior to a child! This must stop now.
I very much hope that this practice is stopped right away. These dolphins are endangered, intelligent and they are being tortured. There are better ways to initate adulthood. Let traditions like this die out and replace them with something more respectful. How can all those spectators stand there and watch? How can this be legal. I thought by the year 2010 the world would be more civilized than this. And Denmark, a country I respected. I do not have enought adjectives in my vocabulary to adequately explain the inhumanity of this dolphin cull.
hello, im going to get a internet smakc over this BUT i have some wuestions about this.
One, what is a calderon dolphin? I’ve looked it up to try and find out exactly, what kind of dolphin it is, but i only find articles about the slaughter of these sol called dolphins, which are actually called long-finned Pilot Whales, and are not doplhins at all and are not even endagered, neing one fo the most comon whales.
Another thing is that you have wrong is the idea about the killing of the animals. It is about food, not a right of passage. The Faroe Islands are a rocky place where they cannot grow much food and have to rely on what they can get from teh ocean, which is the animals.
This hunting is also closly regulated, here is a site you can look at for more information. enjoy, there are no graphic images on here http://www.whaling.fo/Default.aspx?ID=6840
Just reading this turns my stomach!!! How can this happen? Are we just not evolved enough?? And to think that people just stand and watch this horror. Sickening!!!!!
Ihave also seen pictures of the unborn babies cut out of their dead mothers.If you care about this then mosey on down to this site where i am trying to change peoples attitudes, with no sucess i might add
m.topix.com/forum/world/faroe-islands/T68E7O9L7N3FRMD0T/p6#lastPost
This practice is inhumane, what are these people thinking. Dolphins are one of the most gentle creatures on earth and they have as much of a right to life as we do.
1. I am completely against this senseless massacre.
2. I am also against knee-jerk reactions that spread like wildfire through the Internet, without due care.
3. This posting closely resembles an email I received recently, which was so riddled with grammatical and factual errors that I did some research to clarify things. Check out my blog, and you’ll see what I mean.
http://yardyyardyyardy.blogspot.com/2009/11/gotta-get-it-right.html
Even alot of the comments posted here contain errors. Don’t misunderstand me – I am very much against this outdated custom. But I warn those who attempt to change the Faroese mindset: it’s a total waste of time swearing and cursing etc. You need a considered approach, perhaps offering solutions, showing a mature understanding of their situation (not AGREEING with them at all – just being aware of their traditions and their thinking). Generate a global groundswell with reason, clarity, purpose, calmness.
Write to the Faroes Government, NOT the Danish one (it’s not the Danes’ issue, it’s the Faroes’ killings). Aggression will only run off their backs and entrench their behaviour (they are after all descended from Vikings!!).
Good luck…read my blog and you’ll see what I mean.
PhilBee, NZ
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