(Anti Media) Each year in the summer months on a group of islands between Norway and Iceland, nearly 1,000 whales and dolphins are slaughtered in a tradition that turns the sea blood red. Now, images of the locals doing the deed are making their way onto social media, and outrage over the practice is gaining steam.
Earlier this week, The Independent detailed how the ritual, dating back to 1584 and known to local Faroe Islanders as the grindadrap, is carried out:
“As long-finned and short-finned pilot whales swim close to the shore during migration, fishermen surround the mammals in boats and dinghies, herding them towards the beach.
“The entire pods of whales become stranded, are dragged up the beach and slaughtered on the sand or in the shallow water.”
Read more at …… http://www.anonews.co/massacre-of-whales/