Denmark Dolphin and Whale Massacre

In late 2009, photos (Warning: Graphic) were released in America that captured a monstrous Danish rite of passage known as the "grindadrap." In the Faeroe Islands, the sea turned bright red with the blood of hundreds of dolphins and whales. The corpses of these sentient mammals were laid out in rows on the beach as far as the eye could see, each of them gored open. Pictures captured young men in wetsuits wading in the red shallows, hauling in the bodies with ropes and hooks.

So what is "grindadrap?" Briefly speaking, in order to enter into adulthood, a boy is required to kill a whale or a dolphin. This rite of passage is done en masse at a festival, with hundreds of boys gathered together, each seeking to gain his manhood by taking the life of some of the most intelligent creatures that inhabit our planet. They appear to be aided by older men, who undoubtedly have undergone this rite of passage in their youth. This ritual has reportedly been taking place since the 10th century at the very least! Why has no one taken a stand for this? Why has it taken so long for this ugly truth to come to the public attention? Nothing in the manner of these so-called festivals suggests an air of secrecy. These men and boys are out in the open, in large numbers, fully visible to any passerby. Perhaps the only viable explanation is that because it is a tradition of their culture, the Danes protected this rite by not speaking of it to outsiders.

Much media attention has been paid to the Japanese who commit similar atrocities on a wide scale. This includes the recent release of a documentary titled "The Cove," in which a group of American researchers go above and beyond to expose a comparable massacre of dolphins and whales in Taiji, Japan. Their methods involve a large number of synchronized whaling boats that chase hundreds of whales and dolphins into a cove and trap them there, where they proceed to kill each and every one. The flesh is then sold to the meat industry.

It is unclear from the pictures as to whether the dolphins and whales of the Denmark massacres are put to any further purpose after the grindadrap. But one might say that there is something even more disturbing about such a practice that requires mere boys, not professional whalers, to kill intelligent animals on such a large scale. And not for cold-blooded industry, but for human recreation. Suffice to say that world expects better from a civilized nation like Denmark. Some Danes have risen up around the internet to protest this shame upon their nation. They claim that the Faeroe Islands are a constituent country with a separate government and different traditions for which the Danes should not be blamed. Nevertheless, it appears that even those Danes were aware of this tradition. If Denmark is opposed the traditions of its constituent country, why has nothing been done to stop this gruesome rite of passage?

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Author/Artist - James Opiko
Page Title - Denmark's Gruesome Festival: Mass Killings of Whales and Dolphins to Prove Adulthood
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Author/Artist - Louie Psihoyos
Page Title - The Cove
Site Title - www.thecovemovie.com