Tourism May be the Key to Ending the Bloody Horror on the Faroe Islands
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
June 2019

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.

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