• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

    • been going on since the 9th century
    • Faroese cuisine is generally dominated by the use of animal products, as only about 2% of the 1,393 km2 of land on the islands is at all suitable for arable crops
    • a 2008 paper in Australian Archaeology said conservationists find Faroese whaling particularly offensive because it does not conform to traditional Western perspectives on “primitive” tribes
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      4 months ago

      But, you see, I think my culture is superior so they should stop.

      Anyway, who’s up for an ethically* slaughtered cow that I’ve raised in a box?

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        4 months ago

        Wow I didn’t realize that cows were endangered. I also didn’t realize that we slaughtered cows by drowning them.

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          Both long-finned pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins aren’t endangered, they’re least concern. They’ve always been hunting sustainably.