Dont quite know what to say because I still eat meat occasionally. Less and less often because the image of a slaughter house or an industrial chicken farm is hard to suppress while Im eating. There certainly are more humane ways to kill an animal though... I was raised on a farm. Ive been to a slaughter house. It can be done with respect for the animal. Warning: this is gruesome. Whaling in the Faroe Islands There are records of drive hunts in the Islands dating from 1584.[32] It is regulated by Faroese authorities but not by the International Whaling Commission as there are disagreements about the Commissions legal authority to regulate small cetacean hunts. Hundreds of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) could be killed in a year, mainly during the summer. The hunts, called grindadráp in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level; anyone can participate. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. Then they drive the whales slowly into a bay or to the shallows of a fjord. When a whale is in shallow water a hook is placed in its blowhole so that it may be dragged ashore. Once on land or immobilized in knee-deep water, a cut is made across its top near the blowhole to partially sever its head. The dead animals are then dragged further to shore after the remaining whales have been likewise killed.[33] This grindadráp is thought to be legal and provides food for many people in the Faroe Islands.[34][35][36] Some Faroese consider the hunt an important part of their culture and history. Animal-rights groups, such as the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, criticize it as being cruel and unnecessary, while the hunters claim in return that most journalists do not exhibit sufficient knowledge of the catch methods or its economic significance.
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