Whatever excuses you guys are giving , we can all see you being comfortable staying in the water stained with innocent blood and killing the dolphins with big hooks  IN PUBLIC . It is like a festival .That makes me think that you guys would have no problem in killing other animals too being so used to with blood and killing. Are you guys even human? unbelievable.

By that same reasoning we can’t eat pigs. Besides, those were laws to set the jews apart from the rest of the world. Those that aren’t common sense don’t apply to christians.

FYI, if there are extinctions without human influence then that is probably because they simply cannot survive in their current situation, animals come and go. And if there are ways to save them, we save them and maybe you should do your research because the animals that you guys are hunting are protected and are subject to hunting restrictions, in our current world anyways, i seriously don’t know what era you people are from. And if its for food, for god sake, whales and dolphins are not the only ones swimming in your ocean, take the initiative to look for other resource instead of blaming the size and the capability of your island in feeding its people.

This isn’t so much about saving endangered species as is about saving sentient life forms. Humans aren’t endangered either, but I would chose to save them anyway.

What I am saying is that if you are worrying about extinction then the Pilot whale is not worth your time. I’ll quote what I said to someone else:”The population has been estimated by some at 750000 and by others at 200000. Even if we take this lower estimate then an annual death of 1000 is 0.5% which is far below their population growth.”
So we are not threatening or endangering this species. In fact if anything we should kill more because these whales eat (mostly squid but also) some types of fish that we rely on. 98% of our export is fish.

With all due respect Emily, these things are not the same. None are really good, but they are bad in a difference of degree. The fallacy of every proponent here is that you say, you guys eat meat, so you can’t judge us. 

Well, we can and we are. 

First of all dogs don’t contain as much meat as a whale. Second, because dogs are pets and therefore it creates an emotional attachment. It’s sort of like how all the environmentalists can’t bear to see the “cute whales” die. If dogs did not live in homes I would not be surprised if we would eat them like the Chinese do. However, we don’t really care if the Chinese are eating dogs let alone protest about it.

Don´t project yourself like a damn ignorant, you´ll never get far. Don´t hide the fact that most other animals killed for consumption suffer way more. Why? Because of profit. They have to get fat. They have to get fat fucking fast,, so you can eat it. No problem eating meat, the problem is how it is killed around the world. This shows a humane and effective way, Faroe Islands should be a role model to kill animals as fast as possible. But you can´t see pass the pictures. You´re crying like a bitch because you´ve seen Free Willy, well, bitch please, stop being so fucking silly!

So because you eat cows and don’t eat whales it is fine to eat cows and wrong to eat whales? If not that way then what way should they be slaughtered? You are being quite hypocritical by telling someone who does not share your view to be silent and then trying to force your own view.

so many people keep saying that they should not be eaten but no one actually gives a good reason why. The most common reasons are:
1. Intelligence, but pigs are also intelligent.
2. Biblically whales should not be eaten, but neither should pigs, and this rule only applies to jews.
3. They are endangered, which in the case of pilot whales is blatantly false.
4. It is inhumane, but it is more humane than factory farming and almost all predator-pray situations.
So far there is no indication that they should not be eaten.

I don’t think we should be waging war amongst ourselves, when we are all here to save the whales and dolphins. I believe killing any sentient lifeform is undesirable, but at a point you have to accept that that’s the way the world works. But in my moral system, the more sentient an animal is, the more the right to life it has. Killing whales and dolphins is wrong not so much because of their numbers, but because, next to humans, they have the highest encephalization quotient on the planet. They are not fish, they are not chickens, they are not cows.

What’s more, they are so full of mercury that they will lower your IQs for a generation. If you don’t buy into my moral system, fine, at least buy into the self preservation aspect.

I’ve said numerous times, killing is always undesirable. But I believe undesirableness is proportional to the sentience of the species. Why do we believe killing bacteria is justified when saving humans? This killing of cetaceans originated a thousand years ago. Can’t you guys step back and see that this belongs in a more barbaric time? The entire rest of the Western world has. Instead of thinking that the rest of us just don’t get it, for a second, just adopt the viewpoint that the rest of the world may be right for once.

The KKK and Nazi reference was distasteful. If we can’t respect each other here, than there is no point in even communicating.

Cows are not comparable to dolphins and whales or humans. Maybe eating cows is hypocritical to a degree, but one does not have to be completely without sin to oppose a much bigger sin. 
Maybe I’d be criticized for opposing the Nazis. I kill cows for food, so how can I be opposed to killing in general? I cheated on a test in fourth grade. How can I be against any injustice now?I expect you guys to defend something that you’ve grown up with and is part of your culture. But can’t you see how barbaric the rest of the world sees it as? Can’t you step back a little, abandon this, and let your children view this the way we in America view slavery now?I’m not trying to insult you. If I thought you were stupid or without reason, I wouldn’t be spending my time writing this.

We are not “good for it” because we don’t share your view but it is nice to see consistency in your view. As for the heavy metals, we are the ones who did the research that you guys are quoting (or rather one of us did the research: Pál Weihe). No one knows the research better than we do. The effect on IQ varies with the amount and age and from person to person so 10-15 points is not a good number. Also, even if you eat it all the time the effect is barely noticeable. The problem becomes noticeable in unborn babies which is why for the most part pregnant women avoid eating it.

I was pointing out how his statement lacked credibility. He is basically saying “I eat cow therefore it is fine to eat cow” as if he defines right and wrong.

Nazism in theory is brilliant but fails in practice because it is abused, same with communism. What made slavery wrong in the US was that before this form of slavery slaves were usually people who could not pay a debt and offered themselves as slaves instead (it was justice) while in the US they just grabbed some people and made them slaves. So slavery in theory is not that bad either, the problem was that the Americans abused it. We live with a system that we don’t view as bad and it has not yet been abused so we see no reason to stop. 
You have worded your questions slightly wrong. It should be more like this: I kill cows so how can I be opposed to killing cows? which we see as: I kill animals so how can I be opposed to killing animals? which exactly illustrates our point. The second question you can do the same thing but you also need to change to present tense and it will once again illustrate our point.

EXACTLYYYY… would anyone care then…. and btw…. it is already happenin.. all the conflicts and mini wars r happenin between ppl and between ppl of same country blood and religion….. i m really depressed of this felthy world