We are living in the 21st century and currently going through a pandemic that has already wreaked havoc on humanity and claimed the lives of millions of people around the world. Yet the world refuses to learn anything and continues with its evil acts of cruelty and inflicting pain on innocent animals in the name of crazy old traditions.
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On one hand, the world is all about protecting and working for the rights of animals and many organizations are working day and night to let their voices be heard when it comes to taking action against animal cruelty, however, there is no doubt that there are more people evil out there than the good ones and they are ready to cause harm to the world without thinking about its grave consequences.
Haunting images from Faroe island turning red have been circulating around the internet and show the evilest and cruel side of humans where hunters in the remote archipelago slaughtered hundreds of pilot whales as part of a gory annual tradition.
The massacre of the sea mammal in this gory tradition was caught on camera by Sea Shepherd, an international marine wildlife conservation group, as Forese whalers drove schools of whales from the sea onto the beach to be killed for meat.
The bizarre and inhumane festival is known as grindadrap or “grind.” This year, 175 pilot whales were murdered, including pregnant females and juvenile whales, Sea Shepherd said.
“Our crew is on the islands to be the voice of the whales. They mean no harm, yet they are threatened and harassed by locals who don’t want their ‘proud’ tradition documented and exposed to the world,” the group said.
The nonprofit has been fighting against this gruesome tradition for years but it shares that this year it faced angry local hunters who shot guns and also struck the organization's drone.
Sea Shepherd says the incident was also reported to local police.
“Sadly, we can say that we aren’t surprised that it escalated this far — tensions seem to run high when you try to document the supposedly proud tradition that is ‘the grind’,” the group said.
The Faroe Islands is a self-governing island territory of Denmark and it practices the centuries-old tradition of Grindadrap since it was first settled by Norsemen in the 9th and 10th centuries.
2021 is Sea Shepherd’s sixth “Operation Bloody Fjord” campaign in which does “everything [it] can to engage with and encourage more Faroese citizens to speak out against the hunts.”
