If you really want horror, look up the annual Japan dolphin slaughter. There is no discrimination, they herd then to shallows for massacre, including calves. Slaughter on that scale doesn't have to do with food, especially since dolphin meat contains toxic levels if mercury. In last season alone they killed nearly 600, not including the few hundred additional wild dolphins sold for captivity.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singer-sosnowski-dolphin-hunt-capture-20160831-snap-story.html
Rip fin whales, second largest whale in the world, has like 10% the population it did at the beginning of the 20th century. This endangered species is one of the whales Iceland and Japan recently declared legal to whale again ;-;
Well, it may help to prevent whaling by Japan. They exploit the clause that you can catch whales if it's for scientific research. They kill hundreds of whales including calves for "science" and use them to make dog food and gourmet cuisine. Icelanders live on whale meat, there's not much else there anyway. So if this helps prevent Japan from decimating the whale population, it may give these creatures a fighting chance.
Hey @guan2, the 1980’s called, they want their political propaganda back. Harvesting 128 animals out of a population of 100,000+ is not reprehensible (see www.iucnredlist.org/details/2480/0)
Also, more than half the population of Iceland is against whaling, and this is the last quota for the period 2013-2018, a period the prime minister doesn’t want to extend.
My eyes got tears when I think and talk about them
How could someone even think of hurting them!?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singer-sosnowski-dolphin-hunt-capture-20160831-snap-story.html
THE WHAAAAALES
Also, more than half the population of Iceland is against whaling, and this is the last quota for the period 2013-2018, a period the prime minister doesn’t want to extend.