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The waters off
the coast of the Faroe Islands literally ran red on the night
of September 12, filled with the blood of almost 1,500
dolphins that were mercilessly chased, cornered, and then
brutally stabbed to death. That Sunday evening, boats
surrounded the terrified, fleeing, thrashing pod of dolphins.
They chased them into shallow enough water so that their
terrible task could be performed, then they took out
their knives and began. Dolphins were stabbed,
shivering and left to bleed out; some of their spines were
severed so they were paralyzed but fully conscious as they
slowly died. By the end, 1,428 dolphins were
dead.
The Faroe Islands make up an
autonomous region in the Kingdom of Denmark, and these hunts,
known as "the grind" or Grindadrap in Faroese, began in the
9th century when our oceans had not yet been pillaged of
nearly all their resources and whaling still happened on a
small, sustainable scale to support small communities of
people. But in recent history, these hunts have been criticized by animal
rights activists as needless, cruel, and totally
unsustainable. And this record high death
toll has given even some supporters of the hunt pause.
That's how vast the cruel slaughter was — even the
chairman of the Faroese Whalers Association said, "It was
a big mistake."
Obviously, this event is no
longer necessary, appropriate, or able to be regulated in a
way where animals don't suffer. Sign the petition and demand that the European
Union outlaw this bloody, unsustainable, cruel tradition — ban
the Grindadrap!
Thank you,
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Lauren
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. This
traditional Faroese dolphin hunt has always been cruel, but
this most recent one went above and beyond. Sign the petition to ban it once and for
all. |
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