According to the Daily Mail, yesterday, July 30, the massacre of dolphins for ritual purposes was again committed in the Faroe Islands.
This time, more than 100 pilot whales were killed during the annual Grindadrap ritual hunt. This happened a few weeks after the introduction of a limit on their capture – no more than 500 individuals per year. Last year, the death toll among white-sided dolphins was almost 1,500.
The ritual was condemned by many animal protection organizations and the public, as well as hunters’ compatriots: dolphin meat is not in great demand and has not been eaten for a long time.
However, locals consider this ritual integral to their unusual national culture. Recall that hunters on boats and boats drive dolphins into the fjord, to the beach near the village of Skalafjordur, where young people with hooks, knives, and spears kill grind. In the local culture, for a young man, killing a dolphin is considered a rite of passage into a man. During the bloody ritual, the water in the sea turns red, and the dead dolphins are then butchered right on the shore.