We need to target tourism and we need to educate people globally that the Faroe Islands is the place of the violent annual massacre of defenseless dolphins and pilot whales in a barbaric ritual called the Grindadrap (the murder of whales).
Faroe Islands Whale slaughter, July 2018 - Image from Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society
With the North Atlantic fishing industry being diminished more and more
every year, the Faroe Islands, a place that has been dependent upon fishing
for generations is desperately encouraging tourism.
We need to target tourism and we need to educate people globally that the
Faroe Islands is the place of the violent annual massacre of defenseless
dolphins and pilot whales in a barbaric ritual called the Grindadrap
(the murder of whales).
Faroe Island Whale slaughter residue, June 2015 - Image from Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society
There are of course some tourists of a sadistic bent that seek out places
like this, from shooting elephants in Africa to eating whale steaks in
Iceland but many tourists of a more compassionate nature would be horrified
to see the savage brutality of the dolphin and pilot whale slaughter or to
learn that the Faroese feed mercury tainted meat to their children.
Boycotting Faroese farm-raised salmon and discouraging tourist dollars may
be the key to convincing the Danes and the Faroese that the Grindadrap
should be a thing of the past and should die out in the same manner as their
over exploited fisheries.
Sea Shepherd should pursue a new strategy involving the recruitment of a
good public relations firm to establish a campaign to educate tourists about
the barbaric slaughter of these innocent, intelligent, self-aware, sentient
and endangered cetaceans.