Oh noooooo! Not again.

[Catherine]

I was coming home to post this, but you got to it first. 

It is not a humane slaughter.
I noticed a baby whale in one of the pictures so they must have killed the mother and the baby was with her so the killed it too.

The claim is that this is an old tradition and that is supposed to justify it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...98436.html

The claim is that they use the whale meat for food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in...oe_Islands

It is not recommended that child bearing women and children eat the meat or blubber. The chief medical officer did not consider the meat safe for human consumption. At most only one meal a month should be eaten.
The whale meat is not the main winter diet then.

There is no practical need for the slaughter. Claiming something as a tradition does not justify outrageously cruel behavior.

Ay very most, if they really wanted to eat some whale meat they could kill a few whales, not 1000. There is no need to kill mothers and babies. There is no need for a cruel brutal butchery of gentle sea mammals.

It doesn't say much about us as humans that we permit such brutality to continue.