Faroe Islands are situated between Scotland and Ireland.Faroe is an archiphelago(a group of islands).It is an autonomous province of Denmark.They have their own parliament and administraion.This island has a disgusting,barbaric and brute annual carnival to celebrate young men entering in to adulthood. This is absolutley savage and uncivilised.Thousands of pilot whales(Refer link below for Pilot whales) are killed merrily every year.The entire bay turns red with blood splashed all over.A nauseating sight for any civilised person.There is growing protest all over world over this annual celebrations of Faroe islands.Denmark has distanced itself from the allegation on the pretext that Faroe is an autonmous province and is not a member of European union,where as Denmark is a member of the EU.understand this was practised elsewhere also many decades ago.European Union has banned such celebrations in European Union States.But strangely Faroe laws permit killing of certain species of cetaceans.This include some species of dolphins also.It is loathsome to note that islanders drive the entire school population of Faroe to this bloddy carnival.If you can retain your poise read the mode of operation followed by the islanders to kill the friendly Pilot whales and Dolphins.At first the whales and Dolphins are driven to the bay by the islanders in motorboat.The poor creatures are finally driven in to shallow waters.Then they start hitting the poor creatures with spiked hooks.Once caught in the hook,they slash the flesh with long knives.Soon the bay is filled with butchered whales.Every year thousands of whales are killed like this.After the festival the whales meat is consumed by the islanders.Experts opine the pilot whate meat is highly toxic.This is amply reflected in the diabilities and health problems of the islanders.whales and dolphins are social animals.Dolphins are called the 'friend of a sailor'.International appeals against this slaughter have made no headway so far.One sincerely hopes faroe youth would come forward to celebrate their adulthood in meaningful constructive ways and stop this inhuman act forthwith. 
S.Kalyanasundar -A trilingual blogger in English,Tamil and Malayalam
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Frenetic Carnival of Faroe islands
Faroe Islands are situated between Scotland and Ireland.Faroe is an archiphelago(a group of islands).It is an autonomous province of Denmark.They have their own parliament and administraion.This island has a disgusting,barbaric and brute annual carnival to celebrate young men entering in to adulthood. This is absolutley savage and uncivilised.Thousands of pilot whales(Refer link below for Pilot whales) are killed merrily every year.The entire bay turns red with blood splashed all over.A nauseating sight for any civilised person.There is growing protest all over world over this annual celebrations of Faroe islands.Denmark has distanced itself from the allegation on the pretext that Faroe is an autonmous province and is not a member of European union,where as Denmark is a member of the EU.understand this was practised elsewhere also many decades ago.European Union has banned such celebrations in European Union States.But strangely Faroe laws permit killing of certain species of cetaceans.This include some species of dolphins also.It is loathsome to note that islanders drive the entire school population of Faroe to this bloddy carnival.If you can retain your poise read the mode of operation followed by the islanders to kill the friendly Pilot whales and Dolphins.At first the whales and Dolphins are driven to the bay by the islanders in motorboat.The poor creatures are finally driven in to shallow waters.Then they start hitting the poor creatures with spiked hooks.Once caught in the hook,they slash the flesh with long knives.Soon the bay is filled with butchered whales.Every year thousands of whales are killed like this.After the festival the whales meat is consumed by the islanders.Experts opine the pilot whate meat is highly toxic.This is amply reflected in the diabilities and health problems of the islanders.whales and dolphins are social animals.Dolphins are called the 'friend of a sailor'.International appeals against this slaughter have made no headway so far.One sincerely hopes faroe youth would come forward to celebrate their adulthood in meaningful constructive ways and stop this inhuman act forthwith. 
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