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Hundreds of slaughtered dolphins. A sea of blood. For inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, it remains an age-old, though increasingly controversial, tradition.
Hundreds of slaughtered dolphins. A sea of blood. For inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, it remains an age-old, though increasingly controversial, tradition.
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00:00The Grindadrap is the name given to the largest slaughter of marine mammals in Europe.
00:26What usually happens is someone at sea spots a pod of dolphins and they call for reinforcements
00:35on land.
00:36The boats go out at sea and together they drive the whales towards the hunting base.
00:43They start the killing by using knives to cut the spine cord and as soon as the first
00:50drop of blood is in the water, what has been witnessed is that the whales just stick together.
00:57They don't run away.
00:59They stay with each other and it's very, very hard for anyone who knows how these animals
01:05are highly aware of what is happening and highly bonded together to have them witness
01:14each other die and drown in each other's blood.
01:19It's a very, very brutal killing and it kills the whole pod.
01:24So basically it's a whole genetic pool that's being wiped out at once.
01:29It's pregnant females, it's young, old, everyone is slaughtered.
01:49Sea Shepherd has been opposing the whale hunts in the Faroe Islands since 1984.
01:57What we would like to see now is to see Denmark actually respecting its own law to make sure
02:04that something completely illegal in European Union does happen in the Faroe Islands.
02:20It has been the resource for a lot of protein during hundreds and hundreds of years.
02:31It is very important for me first to state that longfin pilot whale is not a threatened species.
02:37The numbers of whales being harvested is much less than the actual surplus by birth.
02:47For every pilot whale that we harvest, the need to import meat is lesser and therefore
02:58it's actually quite a good thing for the environment.
03:18If the development doesn't change, I think within not too long the practice might end
03:28simply because the whales are no longer good for your body to eat.