Yes. What’s especially despicable is that among all the people who are allowed to continue their (sustainable!) practices, which are ultimately no different than hunting deer in the forest, the Faroese are singled out by activists because they “look insufficiently primitive”. It’s an important part of their culture, the catch is divided up according to age-old rules so that everyone gets to eat, it’s the cornerstone of solidarity on the islands. They’re probably going to stop sooner or later anyway as other signifiers and methods (such as the social state) take over the role, but they should not be forced to rush that just because some capitalists exploited the seas while the whales they hunt are nowhere even close to endangered. They’re still getting forced to accelerate that process – not by Sea Shepherd, but by the rest of us dumping mercury into the ocean.
These kinds of animal rights activists do have a penchant for being over-zealous. Random other example: Lumping Greenland Inuit in with Canadian seal clubbers.
Nah, man. Killing whales is just wrong as is killing deer in the forest. Or any other animal. Just let them live, ffs.
Do my habits matter to the argument that killing animals is wrong because causing harm.is wrong?
Seriously, there are so few wild animals. Leave them alone, you are hunting for fun, take up another hobby.
I don’t hunt, but there are literally too many deer. Humans have been shaping the ecology of North America for tens of thousands of years. In that process we basically killed off most major predators to the deer population. Mainly because deer are basically an endless supply of food if the land is managed properly.
Since we no longer really rely on deer for a main food source, the deer population has exploded and disease and starvation has become the main moderating forces on their population. Such large populations of deer are also a big part of environmental decline in forest, as they strip the ground of any young sapling or ground cover.
It’s a huge problem in forest management.
While I don’t condone most whale hunting, regulating the deer population is kinda a mandatory thing in the US.
Since humans made their way into the western continents they’ve radically changed the ecosystem, especially when it comes to Forest management.
Humans have become the main predators of deer the populations and if we don’t hunt the population can explode one season to the next, causing a cascading effect on their environment.
Deer can basically eat just about anything, and once they strip the forest of their natural foods they tend to move on to anything else they can reach. This can lead to large swaths of other animals they compete with to die off, while simultaneously causing health epidemics among the deer population leading to things like chronic wasting disease.
Yeah, I know that angle. And again, veganism and vegeterianism is about necessity.
Regarding population control of animals that wouks otherwise eat up the ecosystem because humans hunted down all other predators before, it’s a necessity right now.
However, there is a thing of returning wolves in Europe at the moment. So there is an alternative to hunting and human intervention, resulting in less necessity (granted, human society would need to allow the wolf to make its return and unfortunately, it doesn’t really seem to be the case, but I think you’re getting where I am going with this).
My point is, as much as necessary, as little as possible (which is something one of my maths teachers taught me, so there’s what you can learn from maths for everyday life).
