Про дельфинов!

The problem is that this is a false story and blatant environmentalist propaganda. The killing of Pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is not a festival. It does not take place at a preset date or month or even year, simply because it doesn't exist as a festival. It is a simple hunt and slaughter of free-ranged animals for the purpose of feeding the people. It is illegal to trade any parts of the whales. They are distributed evenly amongst the inhabitants of the community, who roughly get approximately 100 pounds of meat and blubber each time there is a killing. Can you imagine the savings in food bills this means for the poorer families? And as for the manhood-test! Most people aren't certified to kill the whales. In most places it is only legal for certified people to actually kill the whales, and the legal punisment for doing so anyway is quite harsh in these communities.

The Faroese government (it's not bound by Danish law, as the Faroes are self-governing) has extensive records of pilot whale killings going 500 to 600 years back. Every single whale, where and when it was killed, and what persons it was divided between for food. These records clearly show that the numbers of whales killed in the Faroes have been roughly the same for centuries.

Whom ever wrote this article does not know his own head from his feet. Even some of the pictures are fake. They are not from the Faroe Islands, and judging by the ones that are, some of them have been photographed in the late 70's or early 80's. Just look at the last two pictures, do you see the difference in size between the whales in those pictures compared to the rest?