Comments by "Nina Nyggju" (@ninanyggju985) on "The Grind: Whaling in the Faroe Islands (Full Length)" video.

  1. The pilot whales are not endangered. Never been endangered and is classified as most likely to remain so by the experts and scientists within this field: NAMMCO
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  2. +sam duro Actually the world seems proud of the fact that there still are some natives left who prefer a life with more balance with nature and its animals than your country has had in thousands of years. That is also why National Geograhic has voted the Faroe Islands as the best island nation in the world and New York Times voted them as the best travel destination in the world, and again this year those isles top numerous "recommended" travel toplists. Its a shame you are so brainwashed.
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  3. Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, Scandinavians, Japanese, Inuit, and South Koreans from 6000 bc have been hunting and eating whales similar to Americans hunting deer. Whale species grow to various sizes and reproduce at different rates, this is known to whalers, whom make informed decisions about herd populations, similar to trying raising cattle for meat. These animals had been living in the wild without relying on human inputs and were hunted so people could eat them. Can you think of a more ethical food?
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  4. mack man NAMMCO is run by countries of the North Atlantic Region. They have a natural interest in having reliable information about the sources in their region. All of these countries rank among the most reliable countries in the world. I see no reason to not find their scientific studies reliable. 
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  5. It is unbelievable how people can justify killing industrialized animals, jail them up for life in torturing tiny cages, and wipe out whole generations in the name of greed, money and profit, while the same people dare to bash some natives that prefer organic food from animals that actually do not put a negative strain on nature, are non endangered and Actually lived a good life, unlike any industrialized animal!  Some people are pure evil, pure animal racists and pure hypocritical
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  6. It is unbelievable how people can justify killing industrialized animals, jail them up for life in torturing tiny cages, and wipe out whole generations in the name of greed, money and profit, while the same people dare to bash some natives that prefer organic food from animals that actually do not put a negative strain on nature, are non endangered and Actually lived a good life, unlike any industrialized animal!  Some people are pure evil, pure animal racists and pure hypocritical
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  7. Again you are wrong Mack Man. The Faroe Islands is indeed a country. A country defined as a region that is identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. I am surprised at how much time you spend on this topic but again and again get things wrong and keep saying things that are actually not correct.
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  8. +khalid al shehhi For your information whales is not a specie, but a name for a group of species, of which pilot whale is just one of a hundred, and among those that are not endangered, never been endangered and are classified as "most likely to remain so". The "whales are endangered card" does not work in a debate with informed people. Pilot whales are not endangered, and these islanders only take out 0.1 down to 0.001 percentage of a non endangered population that reproduces 2.5 up to 3.5 percent annually. So yes it is a sustainable source and it is far better for the ecosystem to rely on non endangered organic local food than to be forced to import our grappy industrialized western food from a far which is proven to destroy more of the world than any local, organic and free food that lived a far better life than any of our industrialized prison cattle..
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  9. robertoppenheimer As I understand it the Japanese do what they do on a commercial scale where some of the whales they eat is said not to be sustainable. On the other side you have these islanders on the Faroe Islands who do not take anything that is endangered and its not commercial. Its a highly regulated, scientifically proven non endangered source of food for these islanders and all the meat is shared equally and freely among the locals, non commercially. 
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  10. feiko de la vieter Before you jump to conclusions you have to bare in mind that the same doctor, like all doctors, point out that you should avoid beer, wine, smokes or just about anything that will no make you healthier. Just becasue he lists up one food product does not mean it is worse than so much other stuff we already accept to intake despite the health risks, like candy and wine. The problem with these health risks is that the media over simplifies them, as this harvard professor explains: http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/our-excessive-fear-of-mercury-where-it-comes-from-what-it-the-fear-does-to-us This is no love letter to mercury. It does have human health effects, and impacts on wildlife. It is a neurotoxin, and worthy of concern. But the qualifications about just how neurotoxic it is, and to which subpopulations, are rarely included in news stories that simply declare mercury to be dangerous, a black-and-white description that serves the public poorly. It serves environmental scientists well, however, since these are people dedicated, honorably, to raising concern about such threats. They describe the risk to journalists in dramatic and simplified ways, often leaving out these mitigating distinctions, and the journalists repeat those simplistic, dramatic, attention-getting descriptions, and society ends up with less than the whole picture — creating fears that exceed the actual threat. The drive behind the grind is the very same thing that drives you to kill pigs, cows, chickens and alike in your country = food on the table to feed your family and kids with. While you have plenty of cows and pigs in your country these islanders live on rocky isles where little to nothing grows, so they make use of the ocean as their garden. While the slaughter of an animal in open waters cause much visable blood, the methods uses are not much different from any typical slaughter house and just as quick. Just because you have a tradition of hiding the origin of food in your country does not meat it is killed in less brutal or less bloody ways. Is it necessary for you to jail up the poor pigs? No. Than why do you do it? Just because you have a tradition to jail them up and kill every one of them in bloody ways does not mean it is more justified to do over what these islanders do. Your tradtion is not more justified.
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  11. The pilot whale is not endangered and gets a quick death. Most of them are left alone and live a good life free in nature where they will die a natural death, unlike the pigs, chickens and cows we in the western world imprisson, kill, eat and sell for money.
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  12. StevenGaspard First of, these islanders do not kill anything for money, unlike your country that has a very long tradition of killing billions times more animals and kill everyone of them in the name of money, unlike these islanders. Plus, your cour country kill poor pigs every day, and they are scientifically proven to be highly intelligent, more intelligent than any pilot whale according to available data.
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  13. Ben Whitaker Most animals are killed with a knife cutting their throats. Also in our modern slaughterhouses. You might as well describe that situation as misleading as you want, and claim the butcher attacks the pig, cow and alike while they innocently hang up by the head down and the butcher preforms our modern ritual of bloody murder the industrialized livestock. You may even ad that the butcher laughs while doing so, in order to even further demonze the modern caveman are. Your problem iis that most people watching this video can see right trough your bullshit rhetoric and pathetic attempt to demonize these islanders. No wonder most people think SS are all wrong in this issue.
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  14. mack man The lazy people are those living in your country where you pay others to bring you the food. Just because much of the food these islanders is free to them does not mean they do not have to struggle to get it. They go out in nature to get it, and that is not aways easy. The lazy people are those living in your country that pay others to kill for them and the greedy people are you who make it into a game of profit to kill animals in your country.
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  15. info145 Usually the definition of a socalled humane slaughter is not defined by a picture of some scares ,but by how fast the animal dies. According to well describing articles in The Guardian, these pilot whales die within a few seconds. That is fast and considered as humane as a slaughter can be by most common people.
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  16. MarvvFIT The socalled grind is actually highly regulated. Just because you do not know the facts does not make it as you claim. Check out this video by VICE and you might get enlighted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYOTkwFhe-w
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  17. mack man As far as I am informed the Pilot whaling is said to be sustainable by NGS and the Faroese and Danish authorities, and I have no reason to doubt a nation that ranks among the top countries in the world in transparency and reliability, and also by NAMMCO who are the experts and scientists within this field. Yes, the pilot whaling is categorized as being non commercial by both the organisations mentioned above and by the Guardian, New York Times and other reliable media who have numerous times described the Faroese traditions in details. For some of the islanders to choose to sell a small portion of their meat does not make the whole meat harvesting commercial when way over 99% of all the meat still is free and shared meat. And non of the above restaurants have pilot whale meat on their menu. They might have occasionally been in a situation where they for a few days could offer that treat, but they do not do it in a big commercial scale.
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  18. Roy Sinar No, according to NAMMCO, who, together with the Faroese scientists, are the real experts within this field. I do not doubt in their reliability. They have a long track record and long time been acknowledge for their scientific work. Because their statements do not fit into you propaganda you dismiss their whole scientific statements. I think that is wrong of you.
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  19. info145 People around the world have various opinions, but few of them support a floating cult famous for being dishonest and having less credibility than even Fox News
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  20. +Elle Vogue You misspelled Sea Shepherd
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  21. StevenGaspard When your self is doing that is just as bad, if not wore, than you have lost any right to tell others what to do.
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  22. StevenGaspard It is super hypocritical to accept the pure torture of pigs and the jailing of them for life, just because you are used to do it, while you bash some islanders who prefer animals actually have a good life.
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  23. StevenGaspard If you think pigs in the farms do not have fear, than you just reveal how little you know about pigs and how much stress they undergo during their misserable life deprived of any real freedom. It simply is super super suuuuper hypocritical to try to justify imprisoning of a innocent pigs and at the same time bash some natives who prefer their meat comes from animals that have had a actually good life in real freedom.  I bet any pig, chicken or any other animal that is forced to be part of your crappy industrialized food production would gladly switch their life with some pilot whales (given they know how to swim :) and experience real freedom in their natural environment.
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  24. +Roy Gregory Wesche Bare in mind these islanders are barely harvesting what lives around them of organic, sustainable and free food. The ocean is their garden and all the sources they eat are non endangered, sustaianble and free and shared equally among the locals. These islanders kill a few a year in order to get food on the table, while you live in a country that kill many hundred every second, all year around, and you do it all for money. The stupid one is not the islanders, but you.
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  25. TheJoey550 The problem with the modern industrialized worlds pollution and killing of mother nature and positioning its animals will eventually end the tradition of pilot whales and other big mammals. It will not be the white man on yet another self righteous imperialistic crusade that will change these people mind. These self righteous pollution and poison from their own countries though, might eventually win them over. So Sea Shepherd members and anti whalers. Keep your industrialized lifestyle at a live, keep poisoning our oceans, and keep bashing the very natives that stive to keep the oceans clean and live of their natural sources around them in sustainable ways, that will end the game and make you a true winner. Irony may have been used here.
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  26. Yeah it "LOOKS" more gruesome, but one has to be really ill informed if one thinks it´s worse than our typical industrialized meat.
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  27. vq ari Although I have no problem with humans preferring one animal meat over another, just let it be non endangered and from a source that is sustainable and live a good life, free in nature, you seem to not comprehend the worlds desire for feeling differently than you towards their pet animals.
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  28. +mack man What makes them so rich is all the food they can get free. While most people live in countries where they have to work extra hard to buy the crappy industrialized meat, these islanders are able to use their money on other stuff, since a large portion of their food is free and accessable right in their "front yard" / as their ocean is their garden. While you mack live in a country that has a tradition of enslaving all animals these islanders have a tradition of prefering food that comes from animals that actually had a good life and were not killed for money, as you have a tradition to do in your country. The tradition that I think is outdated, barbaric and driven by greed and money, is not the natives tradition, it is yours.
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  29. Very obvious in the very good documentary that these islanders living on what basically are tiny rocks in the middle of the stormy North Atlantic Ocean, use the ocean as their garden and they only harvest what is scientifically proven to be non endangered and sustainable. Oh, when you might not like their food, but so many also dislike your food. Who are we to tell others what to eat
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  30. Poul Watson was comparing the faroese people with Breivik, the mass killer in Utoya Norway who killed 77 people, short after the killing took place for their sustainable harvest of pilot whales.  Then many supporters and neutrals in Scandinavia turned their back to animal organizations in general.
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  31. kurtilein3 Actually chickens are very social animals. You clearly have little knowledge about this area. And I disagree with you on imprisoning people for eating a non endangered animal. If they were endangered it would be a different situation, but these pilot whales are not endangered and they lived a far better life than our industrialized chickens or any industrialized food for that matter. Its hypocritical to eat ANY industrialized meat and at the same time dare to bash these natives for their prefered meat, since its for more organic and sustainable.
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  32. +robertoppenheimer There is a big difference in what these islanders do and what the Japanese do.
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  33. evalise pearlman Are you not aware of that all the animals you kill in your own country, which is millions times more animals than these islanders consume, are also innocent? Teaching kids the origin of food is never bad. Many of today´s problems with nature and pollution is linked to the large amounts of ignorant kids growing up with little to no knowledge about the origin of their own food and do not know that all industrialized food puts a far greater negative strain on nature and its animals than any native preferring meat from animals that actually had a good life. Mother nature and the educated people are sick and tired of these many ignorant hypocritics that jump to conclusions as you do.
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  34. StevenGaspard Do you have any scientific study to back up that claim? I would claim that it is fairly sure to expect a animal that live a free life in its natural environment has a better life than a animal deprived of their natural environment. No farmed animal, not even free range, have real freedom.  
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  35. StevenGaspard How can you say free range is preferred? By whom? By the animals? I think not. Given how so called "free range" animals still are captivated, are deprived of their freedom and still are jailed behind some kind of fence and are not allowed into their natural environment and to range where ever they would like, they are not free as I promise all living things would like. I simply can not understand how any one can justify captivating animals, deprive them of their natural freedom and kill them for money and say that is fine while at the same time bash some natives who prefer their animals have true, real freedom.
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  36. StevenGaspard You obviously saw your argumentation was weak.
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  37. @denise No, these islanders do not overfish anything. These pilot whales are not endangered, and these islanders take out less than 0.1 down to 0.001 of a population that is scientifically proven to reproduce between 2.5 up to 3.5 % annually. SO yes, these islanders do not overfish. Secondly, these islanders live in a area of the world where little to nothing grows. The ocean is their garden. Farming animals is not better for any animal than to be allowed to live free in their natural environment till a very small percentage of them end up as food. Yes, these animals are not trophies, and they do also not see them as trophies. You seem misguided and fed with wrong information by organisations whos sole goal is to demonize these people and misguide you.
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  38. +Twinzzzzz Pigs are beautiful and intelligent creatures too. That has not stopped you doing what you do in your country.
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  39. Twinzzzzz Do you eat meat? Do you think the animals other eat are not also beautiful and innocent?
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  40. mack man Who was it who called the Faroese lazy? A people who actually do more than most people when it comes to use time and energy on gathering their own food.
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  41. info145 According to experts from Harvard, referring to studies made on the Faroe Islands there are no significant links between the amount these islanders eat and any specific sicknesses among the people on the Faroe Islands. The people you refer to oversimplified things in ways that only benefits their practice and it misleads the people: "They describe the risk to journalists in dramatic and simplified ways, often leaving out these mitigating distinctions, and the journalists repeat those simplistic, dramatic, attention-getting descriptions, and society ends up with less than the whole picture — creating fears that exceed the actual threat." http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/our-excessive-fear-of-mercury-where-it-comes-from-what-it-the-fear-does-to-us
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  42. canucktunes you and I can agree on that Sea Shepherd are not famous for sticking with the truth and not bending reality and ignore facts, that do not fit into their bubble of ignorance and propaganda.
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  43. +Relentless-Bulletstorm88 Not talking negative about the islanders of the Faroe Islands is not racism against you or anyone. Get educated.
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  44. +feiko de la vieter It is not like you live in a starving country, right? Than why do you still have a tradition to enslave animals, hang them up on hooks and slice them open with knives in bloody ways and sell the dead meat for money? Why do you allow such a morbi brutal tradition in your country? It is not like you are starving, yet you allow this kind of torture and murder to animals. On top of that you dare to bash some natives who prefer their food comes from animals that actually had a good life, and a reason for why the living standard is so good on those isles, is that not the whole society is driven by money and greed as your bloody killing country, but is driven by the fact that a large amount of the availabe sources and food their is shared equally and freely among the locals.
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  45. mack man You may live in a country where you can not trust public organisations. The Faroe Islands is as most nordic societies where the transparency rate is high and the trust in public organisations is just as high. That is also why the international society with interest within this field trust the scientific studies of NAMMCO  
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  46. Roy Sinar Going through the comments here I can not see any links. 
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  47. Marek Volf Apparently you are not a fan of facts and reality. According to reliable data, experts and scientists within this field, this thousand year old way of gathering local and organic food is actually sustainable. Source NAMMCO, UICN, NGS
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  48. +The Demogorgon As one earlier commented: "If you eat meat and then moan about this stuff then you are a hypocrite."
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  49. +Nia and milo and more Why these islanders are gathering food to eat? Strange question.
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  50. +ottatiotta Another very interesting perspective and balanced documentary about the Faroe Islands. Thanks for sharing the link.
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  51. info145 It is pretty obvious to everyone Sea SHepherd are not a honest organisation. They have been caught lying to many times. You have to be wearing blinkers to not have realised that by now.
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  52. kurtilein3 Whales are not rare
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  53. Roy Gregory Wesche Obviously my voice is needed, when the world is still filled up with ill informed people like you. These islanders are doing the exact opposite of destroying the world. The biggest threat to nature is the industrialized lifestyle that includes the industrialized food production that is produced in ways that puts a huge negative strain on nature.  What these islanders do is to try to avoid being to dependant on having to import industrialized food from afar, that would not be eco friendly.  Instead they are harvesting 0.1 down to 0.001 % of a population that is scientifically proven to be not endangered, never been endangered, and is classified as "most likely remain so, and reproduces 2.5 up to 3.5% annually.  So what these islanders do is relying on local, organic non endangered sources in a sustainable way and that is the opposite of destroying the world.  What is destroying the world is ignorants like you. You are bashing the wrong people!!!
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  54. +jclugoholt Bare in mind the whale die within a second. It is pretty fast by any standard. Most people who are ill informed think that the slaughter it self is much different than what happens in any typical slaughterhouse, but that is because they do not know much.
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  55. superbob3331 Are you really that dumb??!! You live in a country that jails up animals for life in torturing tiny cages, pumps them with chemicals. Destroys wild life diversity, clears land, pollutes the oceans with your industrialized waste and you kill every single breed animals for fun, greed, money and profit.
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  56. +mack man It would do you good if you would base your opinion on true facts and stop misleading people. To be against whaling is a honest opinion, but it does not help the debate that you keep trying to mislead people. The pilot whale is not listed as being endangered. For it to be listed on CITES also does not mean it is endangered. You seem to try to mislead people into thinking that because it is listed on CITES it most mean it is endangered, but that is not the reality. While these animals do have a too high amount of mercury you also ignore the fact that all animals, I repeat ALL animals contain some amount of mercury. Actually all living organism on this planet contain mercury. True, these pilot whales contain to much mercury, but my point is you mislead people when you are so selective in what part of the truth you choose to base your argument on, and when you claim they kill for fun, which is not documented, you display your true side, which is horrible. You seem driven by hate against a people and it is ugly. I hope not all Supporters of Sea Shepherd are as misleading as you are.
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  57. mack man The fact that CITES does not have all the data regarding pilot whales does not mean they are endangered, as CITES also themselves have declared. Pilot whales are simply not listed as being endangered. Why have you said pilot whales are endangered when that is not a fact? You have also claimed that these islanders kill for fun, but there is no evidence of this. Why do you keep repeating this when it is also not a proven fact? I can understand how some people are against others eating this and that, but I hardly believe you make a strong case for view when you blend your arguments with things that are not proven facts.  Is your goal to mislead the masses?
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  58. Your agenda seems to be to mislead not to inform them with valid information.  For UICN to have no data does not mean there is no data out there. It just means UICN does not have them. Your still have failed to proof how the socalled grind is a sport and that they kill for fun. You have not proven your claim. You have claimed many things, but you have not proven your claim. To me you seem just filled up with rage and hate and seem just wanting to mislead the masses, not actually informed them.  To me you seem more and more as a troll.
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  59. mack man What have I said that was not factual. On the contrary you have said these islanders kill animals for fun, but you have not showed us any evidence to back up that claim. And the way you describe and refer to CITES and appendix seems to be attempt to mislead people to believe that pilot whales are listed as being listed as endangered, but pilot whales are not listed as being endangered. It seem more and more clear you are not driven by the quest of the full truth. Only fraction of it, and the rest is just your personal non documented opinion.
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  60. mack man My point is that your goal seems to be to mislead the people.  "You are still in denial that the Grind is partly motivated by FUN", you said. But while I base my opinion on facts, or wait to make my opinion till I have seen the facts, you claim stuff that is not a proven fact. It is just your broken record of claims. You might as well claim they are all aliens, which is just as much a proven fact as you other claim. 
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  61. mack man I have not tried whale meat. What I eat is also not relevant when it comes to facts. I have gone to great lengths to demonize these people, like claiming they kill for fun, yet you have failed to show us any reliable evidence of this.  Since you can not back up such a hateful comment with some reliable facts I feel you are not a trustworthy person - to say it mildly.
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  62. mack man You wrote ""I have gone to great lengths to demonize these people" Yeah 100% agree that's what you are good at doing" ? How am am spreading hatred  and trying to demonize people? I think I have based my comments on facts and referred to reliable sources when ever needed. I do not think you have done so when you have claimed they kill for fun, which is not a fact, but your claim, and in that way I feel it is your attempt to demonize a people and not to inform people with real facts. It is getting pretty clear to me why so many dislike Sea Shepherd and its supporters when they take facts and reality that lightly.
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  63. mack man Tell me how have I demonize Sea Shepherd?
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  64. mack man I am still waiting for your to specify what I have said that demonizes Sea Shepherd.
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  65. mack man You are sounding like a broken record. I think my question is simple. I am simply asking you to tell me where have I demonize Sea Shepherd. And now you have added another claim, where you claim I am forever in denial. Ok, tell me what am I denying? You seem to have a track record of claiming many things, but seldom have any proof. Not that smart of you.
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  66. mack man It is pretty simple. 1. Tell me what have I denied and when have I denied? 2: When have I demonized Sea Shepherd? You have failed to answer two simple questions.
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  67. mack man You still have failed to answer me two simple questions: What have I denied and when have I demonized Sea Shepherd.  I can repeat the questions as many times as you want.
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  68. mack man I am still waiting for you to point out what I have denied and when I have demonized Sea Shepherd.
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  69. E Mitzz If you eat meat, than you are also killing animals. You maybe pay others to do the actual killing for you, but animals do die because of you. If you are vegan than its another story.
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  70. E Mitzz Do you condemn your local government in the same way as you do these islanders?
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  71. E Mitzz nope
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  72. E Mitzz Is food a "no good reason". Than your local supermarket is stuffed full of No Good Reason. 
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  73. E Mitzz Take a Chill Pill .. and while you are at it take one against Hypocriticalness too. You seem full of it.
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  74. +heymisterderp Luckily there are some people left who are not as evil as those who think it´s better to jail up animals and take away any of their natural freedom and raise them in cages and kill them for money.
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  75. heymisterderp Bare in mind humans, or most of humans, like meat. The problem seems more to be that those who accept meat often are unaware of what it involves of blood and slaughter. If you want meat you have to make a kill. That is how nature works. Meat is not created via magic.
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  76. heymisterderp Many of the people who bash these islanders are not vegans, but also eat meat. That is hypocritical, given how much worse the path behind their own food is.
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  77. heymisterderp Are you referring to me? I have no problem with what they eat.
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  78. heymisterderp I do not see a reason for them to stop eating the pilot whales. It is non endangered source of free meat for the locals, it is local food, organic and more eco friendly than so much other foods we humans in the rest of the world seem totally ok with to eat.
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  79. heymisterderp I think it is pretty obvious that the native people care more about nature, whales and being ecofriendly than any typical person living the typcal industrialized lifestyle. You have to be really ill informed if you are not aware of that what is hurting animals and our nature the most is not the natives and their way of living but the industrialized people. You are bashing the wrong people 
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  80. heymisterderp Why should we interfere with these natives and their food? Just because you personally prefer to eat something else does not automatically give you any right to tell others what to do, remember that.
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  81. heymisterderp No, these islanders are not breaking any law. No local or any international law. You must be misguided or ill informed for having that view.
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  82. +E Mitzz The stupid one is YOU who bashes a whole people without having a clue about what you are talking about. The fact is that the pilot whales are not endangered. They never been endangered and they are listed as most likely to remain so by the experts and scientists within this field. What kills the ocean and endangered the species in the word are the people living the industrialized lifestyle, not these natives. They take out less than 0.1 down to 0.0001% of a population that reproduces 2.5 to 3.5% annunally, making it a sustainable source. And it is billion times more eco friendly to live of local organic food than to be forced to be a slave to the food industry that jails up all animals and kills everyone for money.
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  83. +Flemming Behrend The said part is that Sea Shepherd is a multi billion dollar enterprise that thrive on misleading the masses and these few islanders have a though time getting the truth out when the masses are so easily manipulated by a organisation that is used to a big media scene.
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  84. mack man That is incorrect. There is simply no list that includes the North Atlantic Pilot Whale as being endangered! Not even CITES lists them as being endangered.
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  85. mack man This documentary and all the following debate is about the movie and the subjects it deals with: these islanders and their pilot whales, which are not listed as being endangered. Talking about endangered species which these islanders have nothing to do with and this documentary does not deal with is irrelevant. 
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  86. mack man Pilot whales are not listed as being endangered!
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  87. Roy Sinar What I said is that Pilot Whales are not listed as being endangered. That is vital information.
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  88. Victoria Napora No. Sea SHepherd has only shoved the natives there take from nature and give back to nature. SS has posted a video where SS claims the bones are a graveyard proven they trow the meat away to rotten up and the only thing left are the bones. The reality is that the locals use all the meat. The bones are than given back to nature where the bones, dissolved lime, get eaten by microorganisms and become again part of the circle of life. Sea SHepherd is not a reliable source of information. Any educated and informed person knows that.
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  89. +lmz You will never see Sea Shepherd spend money where it counts. They waste it on where they think they get the most publicity with no regards to what is reality and facts.
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  90. +nancy yee why kill the fish? is that not mean as well?
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  91. Lewis Convel They have no problem living there. They have plenty of foods living right outside their doorstep. Why move away from that?
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  92. MrSuperfluous1 how would you define sophistication? Do you know anything else about these islands and their people than what you have seen in this video, that only focuses on one very specific part of their lifestyle, but tells us nothing about the rest of their lifestyle?
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  93. MrSuperfluous1 Again, how would you define sophistication? You refer to a guy saying he does not understand globalization, and that seems to be your answer. But I do not see how globalization is equal to something or someone being sophisticated or not!
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  94. Lewis Convel I am not against people eating all kinds of animals, as long as it is non endangered and killed in proper ways. My issue with the Japanese has only been about me preferring they would keep away from Antarctica - and I have not said much about that.
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  95. Lewis Convel The killing method does not involve axes or hooks. How are you quaiified to correct them about their slaughtering methods when you do not even know what their slaughtering methods involve? 
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  96. Roy Sinar They use ungles which are made of metal, but where the edge is blunt. A axes has sharp edges and is used to cut things. A ungle has a different purpose. Hence these do not use hooks or axes.
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  97. crewby3 No native, living a far more balanced life with nature and its resources than any industrialized country, cares to be lecture about what to eat from a continental ignorant that lives in the countries that jail up animals for fun all their life and destroys the world with its industrialized pollution.
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  98. crewby3 Remember, these natives or islanders actually do not impose any negative impact on their nature and its resources. The pilot whale is not endangered, has never been endangered and is stated to "most likely remain so" by experts and scientists within this field (NAMMCO, NGS) and acknowledge by even UICN.  Many people against whaling forget that, or do not know those fracts. Plus these same people also seem to forget that the trend these days is to eat organic and local food, as these islanders also strive to dom.  The worst thing we in the western world can do is to force even more natives to abandon their culture and force them to stop eating local, organic and sustainable non endangered food, and force them to use more money and importing our crappy industrialized food. That is the worst thing
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  99. Eric Seim Remember the fact that Pilot Whales are not endangered, never been endangered and by the experts within the field they have stated them as being "most likely to remain so" by NAMMCO, UICN and NGS.
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  100. Isabelle Tétreault According to the experts within the field, NAMMCO, NGS and their are all expertise is widely acknowledge, even by UCIN, the pilot whales are not endangered, never been and are stated to "most likely to remain so".  These islanders only take out what is less than 0.1 down to 0.01 of a non endangered population that reproduces up to 3.5 % annually. What these islanders do is scientifically proven to have absolute no negative impact on the total population of pilot whales. You can claim all you want, but than you are clearly ignoring facts and reality.
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  101. robertoppenheimer I am not well enough informed about the Japanese to speak to much about them. But I do know there are big differences. But in how they gather the meat, what they gather and what they than do with the meat. Big difference.
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  102. +MyMerluzzo Than they are the best educated cavemen in the world who do not even farm
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  103. Vincenzo Doria I hope you feel better now that you managed to correct me on a typo.
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  104. 伊藤博文 You do realize that polar bears that never leave the Arctic area is filled with pollution? The levels are so high that just a bite of their liver can kill a human within few days, because of the unusual high amounts of toxins in their liver. This does not happen because of that their are polluting factories near by. No, the Arctic area it self is free of any kind of production of pollution. But because of how wind and ocean currents work, all the pollution far away gets collected and transported up towards the polar regions where bg animals over time manage to accumulate very high amounts of toxins because of how the accumulation process works. This is a problem for all animals, also whales, despite them not living next door to the polluting countries.
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  105. Ross_AFC some billion people on earth thing the most majestic animal on the planet is the cow. The very same animal you gladly chop to peaces in bloody ways and than eat it, in your country.
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  106. +Hun Sokheang Pilot whales are not endangered and the once who pollute the most are Sea Shepherd that pollute the masses with misleading stories that make ignorants like you not think or research and understand that pilot whales are not endangered, never been endangered and are classified as most likely to remain so by all experts and scientists within this field!
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  107. Julianna Te Namu You have been misguided. There are no such reliable videos. Only made up stories. Here is a reliable video and real documentary, made by the respected VICE, that clearly shows how these natives only take out what nature can withstand to share and it is only done for the same reason you kill a pig, cow or alike in your own country: to get food on the table and feed your kids and family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYOTkwFhe-w Do your self a favor and get some real reliable information before you jump to conclusions and judge a whole people. Sea Shepherd is well known for Not being a reliable source.
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  108. +john papple Well, they are big animals. But bare in mind it takes just a few deci liters of blood to color a full tub of water all read.
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  109. +E Mitzz Are the chickens, cows, and all the other animals you kill in your country not also "just minding their own business". Bare in mind these islanders take out a small pod, while they let the rest of the majority of pilot whales continue their life free in the wild, while your country kills a whole generation of chickens every 32-44 days, and do not get me started on how you jail up the rest of the animals and kill every one of them for money. WHat has elefants anything to do with this issue? DO you also blend in elephants into the debate when you talk about pigs or other animals in your country?
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  110. +Ralph Rosal Can you tell us what harm did the millions of animals do to you since you kill them?
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  111. Roy Sinar The latest numbers will be published soon as NAMMCO is working on this years estimation date gathered earlier this year. There first reaction for the first date they got in was that the numbers of pilot whales, and other species, were relatively hight compared to earlier data. The final estimation will tell us more as it will later be published when they are ready to do so.
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  112. Roy Sinar If the population number has decreased significantly than we have a new situation and opinions will adjust. If the numbers are the same than its safe to state that it is accurate when scientists have stated that what the Faroe Islanders do imposes no treat to the population of pilot whales.
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  113. ***** The Danish police are obliged to make sure everyone follows the laws within their Kingdom. Sea Shepherd are naturally not allowd to break any laws. That is logic
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  114. ***** These natives eat of the resources around them. Little to nothing can grow there so they do not have much options. Luckily for them the ocean is their garden and it is filled with nutritious, organic local food. It helps them to avoid being forced to import all their good. That is good eco living.
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  115. The conflict seems more to be with you Vs. Facts.
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  116. +E Mitzz Why would one want to pay some to enslave and kill animals for money over using local organic free food?
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  117. E Mitzz I am doing the same thing as you: expressing my opinion. And I have every right to have an opinion about your own opinion.
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  118. +E Mitzz have you ever heard of the "reply" function of youtube? try it
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  119. E Mitzz you said "Quit getting in other people's business..". That makes little sense when that is exactly what YOU are doing to these islanders.
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  120. E Mitzz How old are you? You are asking people to "stop interfering with others opinions", yet you at the same time is doing the exact same as you are telling a group of natives what to do and what not to do and interfere with their opinion.  You tell people to "Quit getting in other people's business", yet you at the same time get involved with these islanders and their private business of doing what they have all the right to do.  You can not play the moral card and ask some to not do things when you are doing the exact same.
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  121. E Mitzz A whole generation of chickens is wiped out every 28 to 36 days. That is 100% of a whole generation every 4 to 5 weeks. Here no generation of pilot whales is wiped out. Only 0.1 down to 0.001 % of a population that is non endangered, reproduces 2.5 to 3.5 annually. It is far more eco friendly to rely on local, organic, non endangered sources than any mass produced chicken that is killed for money and raised in ways that puts a huge negative strain on both the animal and the environment.
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  122. Roy Sinar Bare in mind that these islanders take out whole pods, as you mentioned. But they do not kill a whole generation of pilot whales every 25 to 35 weeks as is done in most countries where chickens are killed in a large scale.
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  123. Jojo-Siah The pilot whales do not die by being bleed to death. Our industrialized pigs, cows and alike are also cut up to bleed out. That is a natural part of the food process. The actual kill of our pigs, cows and alike is not by lettng them bleed, but most often by a stump gun brain killing the animal (its not dead, just brain dead) and the same thing happens when these islanders cut the spinal cord that causes the sudden vital bloodpresure drop to cause them to be braindead within a second. Not till after this braindead has occurred our industrialized butchers start to cut up our pigs and cows, and the same thing happens here where they also first start to cut the pilot whales up when they are braindead. The animals, no matter if they are pilot whales, cows or pigs, can still move after being brain dead, but that is all nerves pulling muscles cramps that makes it look like the animal is still alive, but technically it is fully dead by then, or braindead with no chance of sensing anything.
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  124. Jojo-Siah a braindead animal does not stop stop moving. Have you ever slaughtered a chicken? You can cut its head of, head totally dispatched to the body, yet the animal can still move and if you place it back on the floor the legs and body might still run around. Remind you without a head on. But the animal is still described as dead despite some body movements. It is all nerves retracting 
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  125. Jojo-Siah No, not all animals screem when they are being killed. You can not know much about animals and slaughter if you really think they all scream 
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  126. A Good Man the point is that why stop these islanders from eating some thing that is not endangered. Why praise a food industry that treats animals worse? Why act like the new wave of ignorant imperialism suppression? 
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  127. kurtilein3 To me it sounds as a far jump to go from eating meat from an animal to eating humans. Your seem not to be able to understand that humans are well capable of eating animals and at the same time do not think it is the same as eating humans
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  128. Lewis Convel In most countries you can go in jail for a long time coming with threats like that. The great thing about the internet is that comments like that one will never escape. And I have a screendump of your statement in case it will ever be needed. 
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  129. +Jared Hulzenga I agree There are few natives or people left, who really strive to live a balanced life with and by nature. Yes, it involves killing, but as long as you do not over kill and treat nature with respect than its far better than any so called modern industrialized lifestyle.
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