UK Parliament Debates Suspending Free Trade Agreement with the Faroe Islands over Dolphin Slaughter
On the night of September 12th, 2021, 1,428 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed in an unauthorized hunt in the Faroe Islands. On that bloody Sunday, the entire pod, including mothers and calves, were driven to the shore with boats, some of the creatures displaying evidence of having their flukes shredded by the propellers, before all the animals had their spines severed with a lance and their heads taken off with sharp knives. It is the cruelest dolphin slaughter on the planet: this particular hunt dragged on for well over six hours, some creatures beached in shallow waters that grew increasingly red with the blood of their family members, 1,428 cries of agony that were silenced. This hunt was the largest single recorded slaughter of whales or dolphins in the history of humanity, the largest dolphin hunt in the Faroe Islands, and the only one that recorded 1,000 or more deaths in the past 80 years. The murder brought the total number of dolphins killed in 2021 to over 2,200,