Faroe Islands Whaling Photos, Chinese Netizen Reactions

These images attached to the following post was amongst the most reposted [or “retweeted”] on China’s popular microblogging service Sina Weibo a few days ago…

@可爱宠物中心:

Shocking! Shocking!! At the Faroe Islands in Denmark, young people kill hundreds of Calderon dolphins [pilot whales] as a rite of passage into adulthood. They die surrounded by their own blood, like newborn infants unable to cry. Please everyone repost [forward] this! Spread this information to the whole world, we must not be bystanders!

Comments from Sina Weibo:

冰山V:

Now these are barbaric people.

空寂廖:

So this is where Chinese people want to head to? And people say foreigners are kind to animals, that’s all bullshit, simply “thinking the moon isn’t round” in our country [self-discrimination, thinking everything is better abroad].

mi小悄悄悄:

Used to believe only Chinese would be like this. Turns out despicable people are everywhere in the world.

钻石花的倦与恋:

Truly fucking inhuman!!!

大男人世界2011:

Rite of passage into adulthood? If you have the balls, go try killing sharks.

PCAKAKENNY:

Go watch The Cove, humans truly are very cruel!

木木MuUa:

#Protect animals# For a rite of passage? Should animals eat humans for fun when weening off their mother’s milk??

笑多了会怀孕:

How is it cruel?

门心马叉虫X: (responding to above)

It’s perverse!

嗡嗡帅: (responding to both above)

What the fuck?

Jacky1202:

What they are killing are pilot whales, a tradition that started as least in the 16th century. The hunt is more to get the food needed to survive the cold winter season (there is only 2% arable land there) and not a rite of passage into adulthood. More information at http://t.cn/GV8TR. Of course, this doesn’t change the bloodiness of the scene.