Danes massacred 500-1200 dolphin for fun

[Alenka]

That however is not so much an indication of barbarism on the part of average people as carelessness, what is barbaric is crowds of families cheering animals being stabbed to death, while they snack. Anyhow, the mistreatment of animals in Britain and everywhere else is always troubling, and I'm not inclined to defend it.

Your burger didn't get to have even the slightest of chances, while in the case of bullfighting, the bull gets a chance of injuring or even defeating the matador.
That's why I'd love to watch a hypocrite face the burger in the arena.
My bets would be on the bull.

Your judgement is grossly misplaced.
Maybe consider contemplating with less cognitive dissonance and with more self-reflection.
Every time you choose a steak over a salad or a beef burger over a cheese sandwich, one could argue that you are endorsing killing for your enjoyment.

[Creoda]

Your burger didn't get to have even the slightest of chances, while in the case of bullfighting, the bull gets a chance of injuring or even defeating the matador.
That's why I'd love to watch a hypocrite face the burger in the arena.
My bets would be on the bull.

Your judgement is grossly misplaced.
Maybe consider contemplating with less cognitive dissonance and with more self-reflection.
Every time you choose a steak over a salad or a beef burger over a cheese sandwich, one could argue that you are endorsing killing for your enjoyment.

Thanks for your photo and input, dumb cow. I'll mark you down as a supporter of the slaughter of animals for amusement, rather than sustenance.

[Daco Celtic]

TA: A Dolphin Advocacy Community

[Alenka]

Thanks for your photo and input, dumb cow. I'll mark you down as a supporter of the slaughter of animals for amusement, rather than sustenance.

Oh wow.
First you're supposedly so apalled by the abuse bulls face in bullfighting, but then you try to hurl dumb cow at me as an insult.
Tell you what, it sounds much more honourable to be a dumb cow than to be a shameless hypocrite.

[Ruggery]

Forgot to add:



Truth be told, cruel and primitive practices exist in Hungary and Croatia unfortunately too. So called traditional pig slaughter that is like public holiday for rural regions when people even bring their kids to watch poor pigs being slaughtered in public in cruel ways! Many villages hold such pigslaughter events as their festive days each year.

And pigs are very caring and intelligent animals.

World is a dark place

Such barbarities should be banned but some monsters defend it as part of traditions. Witch burning was tradition once too...

Until a few centuries ago rape, slavery and fighting to the death were traditions.

[Finnish Swede]

The fact that it does happen behind the close doors doesn't make a difference for the animals.

If you can buy ''organic produced food'', whatever, that should help. At least here (low corruption country) those labels needs real work. How pure and healthy the food is (salads, tomatoes etc.) and how well your animals will live. Starting from fact that veterinarian will come check your place/animals several times per year together with person from certification organization. One kind of audits. And you have to pass those to keep your label/certification. There are lots of things they will check and rules you have to follow (which nobody will control in mass farm production). And they come without warnings beforehand. But my parents have taken attitude that they are for good. One kind of partners, giving/sharing also information how to still improve things, not ''enemies''. And as doing all everyday well, it does not matter will they arrive tomorrow or next month.

And we have other projects like become fully carbon neutral farm. That is possible, not just talks (no matter one has farm animals) but needs again work. Even as we do not use any fertilizers/chemicals anymore there are human made wetlands close to river and lake (to eliminate farm's any influences to waters). We have also created wild flower fields to bees and bumblebees. One friend of mine from city said that she has never seen as many of those. Yes, there are always new things, something we still could do better/improve .

Bad side is that organic food costs more than standard one. So it is question to consumers from what they are willing to pay. If one can/could buy those directly from producers the prices should be ok.

[Hasien]

True. I try to reduce meat consumption to less and less and eventually eliminate it from diet. Since many people like taste of meat (including me) and meat protein is highly valuable for our diet, I hope artificial meat which won't harm our health is the solution.
They are working on it in Singapore and elsewhere.

I'm also trying my best to leave meat , blame the Spanish for Introducing Pork to Mexico , and the rest of the Americas now because of that we suffer of high cholesterol/thyroids and other cardiovascular diseases.

[Faklon]

I'm a bit more extreme about this than the average person as I don't eat meat and extremely very rarely eat fish. Last time was well over 6 months ago that I had some tuna. I eat cheese and have milk and I hate what happens to Bobby calves. Of course there are people that are militant about animal rights as well. I try to not lecture as I do think people have to decide for themselves. I don't want sharks killed either and I live in a place where people are taken by sharks. No one is going to convince me that this slaughtering of dolphins is excusable. Bringing up all the other incidents of how people treat animals isn't an excuse for any of it.

I stopped eating meat after seeing how cows that were shipped from Australia to Indonesia were cruelly slaughtered. That was over 10 years ago. Seeing a big bull tremble in fear after seeing other bulls and cows slaughtered has never left my mind. I couldn't watch the majority of what was released to the media here. It was stomach churning stuff. The Australian Government did stop exporting to Indonesia until they sent over representatives to make sure there was more humane practices. There has been numerous campaigns to get the live animal export trade stopped because of how they are slaughtered in places like the Middle East and Asia. It's a difficult subject. I don't like what happens to pigs, chickens, cows etc. And no it was not hundreds of dolphins per year for food but near 1,500 in one day and they won't be using all that meat. Most of it will be disposed of. The dolphins were subjected to a horrific ordeal for hours. This can't be made better by making excuses for extreme cruelty to highly intelligent beings.

I don't eat fish at all because I don't like it, I can't imagine myself eating dolphin. However I like the food from this popular postcard,



One of the most intelligent beings on the planet, an Icelanding colleague calls it funnily "The Kraken" and he can't believe that it isn't poisonous. I also like to pet deers in Mount Parnitha, they are very pretty and playful animals, remind me of dogs. They make very good meat which Hungarians, like the OP, rightfully (imo) commercialize it.

The pictures, with the pool of blood by joyful dolphins, look like some horror movie but are they really that far from the postcard above? Or what you may sea in a butchery or fish market around Billingsgate?

For me, we should question the morality of the act because the species is endangered and because there is a decent possibility they just do it in vain, to show off. Another question that may arise if if they sell the meat to China, which doesn't follow any regulations and daily pollutes the seas with faulty Huawei cellphones.

When a Dolphin is killed in the Aegean there is a riot in Athens in so much where news outlets go wild.

Dolphins are an endangered species.

Dead dolphins around our partly Chinese/COSCO ports may make it into mainstream media.

Anyways, this is a very complicated matter beyond abstract horror pictures. This event is already used as a political argument by people with their own peculiar traditions to showcase the barbarity of Europeans (ignoring social class, urbanization, locality, phenotypes *it actually may be worse that they are Northerners for the perception of migrants*, politics) so you better expect some hardcore porn.

[Ford]

True. I try to reduce meat consumption to less and less and eventually eliminate it from diet. Since many people like taste of meat (including me) and meat protein is highly valuable for our diet, I hope artificial meat which won't harm our health is the solution.
They are working on it in Singapore and elsewhere.

I try to reduce store bought meat. One day I will buy a huge freezer and only eat meat and fish I've caught myself.

[Aldaris]

Thanks for your photo and input, dumb cow. I'll mark you down as a supporter of the slaughter of animals for amusement, rather than sustenance.

And I'll mark you down as a kiddo who would get a black eye, and that's if I'd choose to be generous. I don't give a rat's ass about what you think, but you won't be rude to her.