Iceland: Woman Politician Bans Traditional Whale Hunting Event Because It’s Mean

The thing about men is that they do so many mean things, like kill whales or refuse to send enough weapons to the Ukraine.

That’s why we put women in charge: they understand that whales need to live, and Russians must die.

The Guardian:

Iceland’s government has said it is suspending this year’s whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, a move that is likely to bring the controversial practice to an end.

Animal rights groups and environmentalists hailed the decision, with the Humane Society International calling it “a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation”.

“I have taken the decision to suspend whaling” until 31 August, food minister Svandis Svavarsdottir said in a statement, after a government-commissioned report concluded the hunt does not comply with Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act.


Svandis Svavarsdottir – Friend to Whale, Bane of Russia

Recent monitoring by Iceland’s Food and Veterinary Authority on the fin whale hunt found that the killing of the animals took too long based on the main objectives of the Animal Welfare Act.

Shocking video clips broadcast by the veterinary authority showed a whale’s agony as it was hunted for five hours.

“If the government and licensees cannot guarantee welfare requirements, these activities do not have a future,” the minister said.

The country has only one remaining whaling company, Hvalur, and its licence to hunt fin whales expires in 2023. Another company stopped for good in 2020, saying it was no longer profitable.

Iceland’s whaling season runs from mid-June to mid-September, and it is doubtful Hvalur would head out to sea that late in the season.

Annual quotas authorise the killing of 209 fin whales – the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale – and 217 minke whales, one of the smallest species. But catches have fallen drastically in recent years due to a dwindling market for whale meat.

Iceland, Norway and Japan are the only countries in the world that have continued whale hunting in the face of fierce criticism from environmentalists and animal rights’ defenders.

“There is no humane way to kill a whale at sea, and so we urge the minister to make this a permanent ban,” the Humane Society International’s executive director for Europe, Ruud Tombrock, said.

“Whales already face so many serious threats in the oceans from pollution, climate change, entanglement in fish nets and ship strikes, that ending cruel commercial whaling is the only ethical conclusion.”

Robert Read, head of Sea Shepherd UK, said the decision was also “a huge blow” to other whaling nations.

“If whaling can’t be done humanely here … it can’t be done humanely anywhere.”

“Whales are architects for the ocean. They help boost biodiversity, they help fight climate change by affecting the carbon cycling process,” he added.

Opposition to whaling has been on the rise in Iceland with a majority now in favour of dropping the practice.

A survey published in early June indicated that 51% of Icelanders were opposed to the hunt and 29% in favour, with over-60s those most in favour.

Yeah, they didn’t mention women.

So often you have this 50ish percent thing, and it is basically “women.” Of course, you have older women, and married women, and some others who will support some traditional positions, and then you have men who are such mindless pussy-sniffers that they will support woman positions. But in general, so many issues are 50-50, and the reason really is “because women are allowed in public society.”

I have no idea if this woman is actually a Ukraine psycho, but she’s from the Green Party, which in every other European country might as well be the “Blood Red Party.” Or, conversely, the “Pink Vagina Party.”

Women are always pro-war, for various reasons. Generally, they just like men killing one another.

To their credit, Code Pink is against the war. I thought they could go either way, given that so many groups that opposed the Iraq War are pro-Ukraine war. But they held the line.

I believe in giving credit where it is due, regardless of anything else. I do that with blacks, women, Jews, whoever. I actually make a point to give credit where due, more than is really even necessary, because I want people to know how bad everything else is.

Anyway – screw the whales.

I’m sick of people white-knighting for abominable beasts.