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

"Disgust from the rest of Europe"??? As the rest of Europe even knows where Faroe Islands is...

It looks sad, but if they are eating them then its the circle of life. We kill animals for food.I wonder how many people would eat properly if we had to kill our own food individually. I'd survive.

This is a disgraceful, disgusting mass slaughter of life and these people have no conscience.They are sick individuals. Surely something must be done to prevent this happening?

Repulsive, abhorrent, hideous, odious, revolting and . . . . . .Heart breaking.

This butchery has to stop and now! Incredible this is still going on in the 21st centuary when we are supposed to be civilised.

Can we have this lot protecting our shores from immigrants?

I cannot find words to explain the horror I feel.

Mindless medieval barbarians.

Its 2016 not 1915! Shame on the people of the Faroe Islands, SHAME ON YOU!

Are you all actually serious? This happens thousands of times everyday to chickens, pigs, cows etc in our UK slaughterhouses, but that is OK? I am going to hazard a guess that the majority of commentators eat meat, if you eat meat your opinion on this matter is meaningless and hypocritical. If you disagree with me how about you form actually form a sentence to support the down vote?

They aren't endangered, they are being used for food, fuel and are killed by licensed professionals and don't suffer. The population of these whales is healthy, It's far better for the environment than importing beef from abroad which has been intensively farmed on land that was once rainforest. People need the full story before they assume this is barbaric. The illegal whaling going on in Japan or China has nothing to do with this, it's obviously a terrible practice.

Should drop them in water with a few great whites or killer whales.