This is so well done. Thank you. You made me remember my first attempt at activism as a kid too, also Re whaling. I wasn’t so successful- wrote and printed an article on anti-whaling with the plan to deliver it to all the mailboxes around the neighbourhood. I ended up stuffing it in one person’s mailbox before getting scared it was technically spam mail and running home.
Oh, yes, this is so frustrating! Travellers are told that it is part of the culture so that whale (and puffin) meat can be sold to them, and that is then used as a justification to keep it going, as there is market for it! Mink whale has been hunted and eaten in the past, but the history is not long and eating it is definitely not a part of the culture.
Good question. The owner of the whaling company is wealthy and influencial. He is an investor and owner of big companies Iceland. Unsurprisingly, he has ties into the Independence party, the largest party in the Icelandic government. So I would say there is more policital hesitance from that party to go against him, than there is political support for whaling...
This is so well done. Thank you. You made me remember my first attempt at activism as a kid too, also Re whaling. I wasn’t so successful- wrote and printed an article on anti-whaling with the plan to deliver it to all the mailboxes around the neighbourhood. I ended up stuffing it in one person’s mailbox before getting scared it was technically spam mail and running home.
hahaha. technically spam! love it
Well documented, researched, and illustrated. It is awful that whale hunting is still allowed in Iceland.
Wow. Been to Iceland twice. I love it. Ate whale once (not fin whale). We were absolutely told it was part of the culture
Oh, yes, this is so frustrating! Travellers are told that it is part of the culture so that whale (and puffin) meat can be sold to them, and that is then used as a justification to keep it going, as there is market for it! Mink whale has been hunted and eaten in the past, but the history is not long and eating it is definitely not a part of the culture.
But glad you loved it, and there is still lots of weird traditional food to try that isn't endangered! Sheep testicles, anyone?
We call them Rocky Mountain oysters and...yum!!!
https://letterboxd.com/9413/list/cetacea-whales-porpoises-dolphins/
I had no idea, how sad and wrong. Thank you.
I love how entertaining and educational this is. Beautiful!
Is there political support for whaling in Iceland, I assume there must be for this situation to be continuing?
Good question. The owner of the whaling company is wealthy and influencial. He is an investor and owner of big companies Iceland. Unsurprisingly, he has ties into the Independence party, the largest party in the Icelandic government. So I would say there is more policital hesitance from that party to go against him, than there is political support for whaling...