Needless slaughter of Calderon Dolphins

Please take time to watch this link www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxq0RGy90CI if you have not already done so.
I have recently been made aware of this vile atrocity on a fellow mammal, although I have known about "whaling" for years.

Here in the cosy corners of the well-fed western world and the abundant-rich shores of the UK, we can of course, turn a blind eye to what goes on in other parts of the world under the blanket phrase "it's what this culture and country have done for years", but we live in the 21st century and are supposed to be a 'civilised' society now. 

Civilisation is not something peculiar to the Western World, it is available worldwide to whichever culture wishes to live by it.  Sadly, there are still cultures on this planet that choose to live without it, often under the umbrella entitled "religion" or sometimes just steeped in historic tradition.

The dictionary definition of civilised is: cultured, educated, refined, enlightened, polite, sophisticated and urbane.  One could argue that Third World countries struggle with civilisation due to poverty and lack of natural resources, and I would agree with you.  However, most Third World countries have a degree of 'politeness' and 'enlightenment', however they live - so yes they are still part of the civilised world.  They may not have the wealth or gadgetry of their wealthier neighbours, but they probably have access to satellite TV, mobile phones and computers giving them a degree of urbanity albeit crudely.  So I refuse to accept that civilisation is not owned by the entire planet.  It is a life choice, you are either willingly civilised or accept the alternative.

However, when it comes to my comment on the 'Needless Slaughter of Calderon Dolphins', it involves none of the above, as it is being carried out in a very civilised, wealthy, abundant-rich, part of the modern civilised part of the world - Denmark!

If you watch the footage and have seen some of the emails being sent around the world globally, you cannot helped but be moved - if you are civilised - by this inane cruelty and unacceptable behaviour on the basis of 'tradition'.

I would implore the perpetrators of this heinous crime to exercise their empathy or at least develop it, to imagine the suffering and pain of these beautiful creatures - fellow mammals to the human race.  If you are unable to feel this empathy, then imagine it was young children it was being done to, equally defenseless and innocent.  Yes, then it becomes more horrific, doesn't it?

Where do these inhabitants of The Faroe Islands get their right to ignore their contribution to a civilised society?  Why is their arrogance going unchecked?  In the Western World, we think nothing of bouldering into other weaker countries when they have a resource we find valuable - ie: oil, gold, gas etc. Where are our "civilised" governments over this issue?

It is disgusting and stomach-churning to think that this can go on in the 21st century in a so-called civilised country.  But be warned Denmark - what goes around comes around.  The universal law of cause and effect will have its day and the bad karma that you are causing your inhabitants will have its revenge, if not in your lifetime, in your childrens.