Whale slaughtering sickens cruise lines.

The Faroe Islands have been practising the traditional whale hunting for hundreds of years known as ‘Grindadrap’ . It sees the locals hunting the seas for Whales and also bottle nose dolphins, Atlantic white sided dolphins and northern bottle nose Whales, for their meat and the flubber.

With pictures being released to the world media showing this tradition taking place and the seas turning red of the hunted animal’s blood it has caused complete outrage and animal lover’s across the globe are protesting that the needless killings are stopped.

The whales do have a friend in the Sea Shepherd activists who have been fighting to try and defend the animals and have even been fined doing so with fees as much as £3000. These activists don’t agree with the Islanders views that this tradition is simply communal and natural and is fine because it is regulated. Thankfully the majority don’t agree !!

To add weight to this the cruise lines are now stepping in and both Aida and Hapag-Lloyd have decided they will be abandoning all visits to the island and visiting alternative destinations.

The Netherlands based charity Sea Shepherd has really welcomed the move by the lines and the CEO has commented by saying :

“I congratulate AIDA and Hapag-Lloyd for standing-up against this cruel and unnecessary slaughter, and for sending a clear message to Denmark and the Faroe Islands that the world will no longer tolerate this bloody ‘tradition’.”

I personally think this is a good move by the German cruise lines as even though this is an honoured tradition of the Faroe Islands that goes back years and years, things change and animal cruelty is simply not tolerated in this day and age.

There is no need to kill the animals as food can be easily brought from the local supermarkets, they won’t starve without it.

Some traditions are outdated and don’t belong in the modern world and this is one of them!

The Whaling is illegal in Denmark but not on the Faroe island but with the lines taking this action they will see an impact on them as they do rely heavily on the tourism side of things and will miss the ships coming in.

I am just hoping that other cruise lines now follow suit and maybe this will force the islanders to take whale meat off the menu for good.