Help CSEF put pressure on Denmark to stop this barbaric practice.



This is the message you will be sending:

Dear Sir:
I am writing to urge you to stop the bloody whaling tradition on the Faroe Islands immediately!

The Faroe Islands are a part of Denmark, which banned whale hunting. Therefore, it is unacceptable for the Faroe Islands to preserve separate laws that allow inhabitants to continue the whale slaughter.

In addition, their own Health Authority warns against the consumption of pilot whale meat because it is polluted with mercury, cadmium, DDT and PCBs. Not surprisingly, demand for the meat has dropped and tragically much of it is dumped and left to rot.

While commercial whaling is banned and the whale meat is not sold commercially in the Faroe Islands, you can find it in their restaurants. With over 50,000 people inhabiting 18 islands, each person receives approximately 22 pounds of whale meat each year, whether they need it or not. Their major export (not import) is fish – so it is obvious that this cannot be considered “subsistence” or for aboriginals.

Officials of The United Nations, The European Union, OECD and Denmark must immediately take steps to ban this annual event. It is a Stone Age tradition in a modern world, and I urge you to use your influence to stop the massacre.

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