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Starbucks South Africa Unveils “Your Summer Yes” Campaign: Celebrating Individuality, Empowerment,…As Iceland’s latest whaling season comes to a close, a heated debate continues over the ethics and sustainability of the country’s policy on these marine mammals.
Fin whales are beautiful migratory sentient sea mammals who have roamed the oceans for millions of years. They are the second largest animal on the planet, and one of the largest to have ever lived. They were nearly driven to extinction byover the past two centuries, but since the 1986 fin whales have been protected under an international moratorium on whaling.
In May, presaging the volcanic earthquakes that rattled Reykjavik this summer, MAST released a report with graphic videos from the 2022 hunting season that shook the public consciousness. Five days before the hunt was to being in June, the ethical review board reached their simple conclusion:Facing off with a group of angry whalers at a meeting to defend her decision two days later in Akranes, Svandís proclaimed “congress has entrusted me with the duty to speak on behalf of animals, and I am fulfilling it.”But the guns of August grew louder.
Let Loftsson whale this one final season, and then don’t renew his license – so the argument went among many on the left who had watched in despair as the whaling debate dragged on for decades. Whaling will be over in 2024, so the headlines proclaimed as early as 2022 when Svandís initially decided to put MAST observers on the whaling boats. The 150 or so whales sacrificed this year is a small price to pay for ending whaling.
The harpoon or catcher ship Hvalur 8 arrives at the whaling station in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland. Two fin whales are tied to the starboard side of the ship. Image by Arne Feuerhahn / Hard to Port. Whale number 17 was brought in. It was pregnant, and as the flensing knives split open the mother’s belly, a well developed fetus slid out onto the concrete floor of the processing center. It was quickly speared with a half dozen hooks and dragged off to the shed where they take fetuses out of sight of the cameras.
The police played a dangerous game of negotiation with her life, refusing to provide water if she did not come down, a tactic that is not only unethical, but against international human rights laws. Meanwhile, the reputation of Iceland was on the line. More than eighty international film professionals pledged not to work in Iceland if there is whaling, threatening a $150 million dollar a year industry. Tourism is expected to take at least a $20 million dollar hit from angry tourists pledging not to come.
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