The crimson shore: How the residents of the Faroe Islands are continuing the shameful slaughter of pilot whales despite disgust from the rest of Europe

This archaic practice should be banned as there is nothing humane about how these poor whales are butchered to death. Shame on the Faroe Islands for behaving like barbarians and not joining the 21st century.

It's 2016,no need to eat whale,It needs to stop.

Sick

This utterly disgusts me.

Let's just murder sentient animals so we can eat them. It's barbaric.

It's abuse and should be banned.

Vile excuse for humans...

Omg what is wrong with these people what on earth would possess you to want to stroll down to the beach with your neighbours and do that on a weekend?! Horrible.

An average of 834 whales a year! Disgusting! this is the 21st century why are people allowing this to happen?

What the hell? I really hate some humans, this makes me so angry that I feel like going over there and hacking those evil men myself, see how they like it.

Sad medieval weirdos

immoral on every level. Educated people should know better than this, from any culture. Killing a whale for food is one thing, the systematic and brutal slaughter of a whole family pod of emotionally intelligent animals is another.

Good for them. Eating what you kill is the most natural thing in the world. I had Whale meat in Norway, it was delicious and healthy.

"There comes a point when some traditions can be set aside."....... Spain and bullfighting come to mind too

How so very disgusting humans can be! I'm ashamed

They come under the same sick people banner I wave for Bull fighters

So civilised scandinavian people !

Hideous, cruel, barbaric, all in the name of traditionEvery year they roll out the same old excuses and arguments Time the international community stood up and stopped this senseless slaughter

The Faroese Islands have a wonderful, gentle and virtuous culture, except for this horrible tradition. It´s incredibly sad that they still do this. It should be changed into a day of remembrance for the past and how the Grindahvalir helped their people survive. They should honor the whales in this time of prosperity, not slaughter them mercilessly.

They cull whales in Norway. The reason they do this is because the whales eat the fish stocks there. So each year they have a quota of whales they can cull. If they didn't the whales would over populate eat all the fish stocks within the area leaving no fish for the areas that require it.