The cruise line is concerned about sustainability. That’s rich.
Depends on the cruise. There are some really expensive cruise lines out there.
Hunting and killing methods have been improved to ensure as little harm to the whales as possible.
Apart from the … hunting and the killing.
Why even hunt whales in the first place? Sure, it’s one big food source when you snag one, but people who have tried whale say it’s bland and uninteresting. It’s just a bunch of fat. And it takes a lot of effort to kill it, haul it, parse it out, etc.
Fish farms give you much more good quality meat without all of the species endangerment.
There are certain very small remote communities in the far north that are isolated and hard to reach. Whale and seal hunting provides a guaranteed food source for these small communities so that they don’t have to depend on incredibly expensive (both resource and moneywise) imports. The Faroe Islands is not one of those places because obviously a cruise ship can easily get to it.
I have been to Iceland and Greenland and Alaska and Norway, etc. I promise you there is no utilitarian need to hunt whales in any of these places. They all have grocery stores where you can buy pineapples for reasonable prices.
We can argue tradition, but there is no utility here.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ambergris
Ambergris, The Rare ‘Whale Vomit’ Used In Perfume
If people knew how fucking easy it was to create different perfume/cologne scents and the markup for each scent, there would be riots in the streets. They can’t even be regulated to put their ingredients on their bottles, because it would reveal the secret.
You don’t need “rare whale vomit” to make a goddamn perfume.
Jesus lol this almost sounds like a south park episode
Cruiselines should stop going to Faroe until the hunts stop, or the cruiselines should shut the f up. Its just lip service without tangible action.
Cruiselines should f off anyway, because we’re at the start of an ever growing climate crisis and cruise ships are the worst carbon emitters of all passenger transports. Those meat eating hypocrites aboard need a lesson in how we treat animals and the planet these days.
meat eating hypocrites
Oh brother, here we go with the malnourished vegans again…I’m with you on the “fuck off cruiselines” bit, but for fucks sake…
Read and weep https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
I mean it’s partly the passengers desires that lead them there, cruise lines don’t just pick arbitrary ports, they go where people want.
They shouldn’t have apologized at all, they should have just been like “and this is what Faroe is like at this time of year, you’re welcome that we were able to show you this unique experience”
In completely unrelated news, some whales seem to be attacking boats/yachts. How weird! Why could this be?
Are you talking about the orcas that are doing it apparently for shits and giggles or is there bigger underwater uprising on the way?
Otters have also joined the fight but in a smaller scale. I vote for underwater uprising.
Well yeah that is what I was talking about, though the articles I saw didn‘t mention any reason at all and if they had said “shits and giggles” I‘d be even more sceptical of that, since I don‘t think animals really fight without a reason.
Now here is where we get to my wild conspiracy theory, I think aquatic species may not like boats, who they can see killing their species or hunting their food sources. Then they react to a predator, so either they flee or attack. Orcas being some of the bigger ones are probably the few who stand any chance whatsoever fighting, so they might try sometimes.
Edit: Ok I just googled around and saw the articles you mentioned saying they do it for fun, I also found this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/the-orca-uprising-whales-are-ramming-boats-but-are-they-inspired-by-revenge-grief-or-memory
Which made me feel a bit more like at least I‘m not the only one who sees this possibility and also gave me more of an idea of why I might want to see this so much (I think there is an injustice happening).
Orcas absolutely do shit like that for fun. They play with their food, like throwing a seal around to each other before killing and eating it.
