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Several days ago, I’ve received an e-mail from Avaaz. It was a petition collecting signatures with the purpose to protest against whale hunting in Iceland. The petition, as a matter of fact, was reuniting signatures for the flag of the small Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis to be removed from an Icelandic ship, something that would deliberately compromise one thousand and seven hundred tons of whale meat to reach their destination, which was Japan. According to the document formulated by Avaaz, that in three days was hoping to collect one million signatures for the cause, if the small Caribbean nation agreed to remove their flag from the Icelandic cargo ship – which would be the equivalent to renounce their condescending nature concerning the brutal slaughter of those poor innocent animals – the whale meat industry in Iceland would suffer an irremediable blow, that could force them to suspend their activities, and to cease for good the horrendous and brutal massacre.
International environmentalists, besides organizations like the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, reacted intensely to the brutal and unscrupulous slaughter of the animals, killed for the purpose of satisfying the frivolous and insidious human commercial greed. According to ipcdigital.com, Norway and Iceland were the only countries in the world openly engaged in violating the rights consolidated exclusively for the whales’ protection, formalized by a decree established as a statute in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission. Nonetheless, Japan is another country that seems to be predisposed to disrespect the international regulations, since they take advantage of a constitutional gap existent within the law – that allows the hunting for scientific purposes – to hunt down and kill the animals, justifying their acts by claiming that they do what they do for the sake of biological studies. But its common knowledge that the meat processed from the slaughtered animals ends up in the table of the costumers, to be eaten as a meal. In Iceland, Kristjan Loftsson, one of the authorities of whaling fishing in the small insular nation, has tried to justify his position, claiming that, according to domestic policies, he was not disobeying any law. Nonetheless, it seems that saving the poor animals’ life’s hasn’t been the priority of anybody, except for a small group of people, numbering in the hundreds, that openly defies the financial interests of an insidious capitalist industry, that, besides being completely indifferent to the fate of the poor animals’, doesn’t mind at all the terrible and painful suffering inflicted to them, in the moment of the hunting and the slaughter.
Unfortunately, this is a dispute that has yet to stand by the side of the environmentalists, even less the true victims of the whole story, the poor targeted animals, given the fact that a great number of countries in the world still actively practice the sport and the predatory fishing. In the Faroe Islands, a constituent country of Denmark, there is an annual festival, which the local inhabitants called Grindadráp, upon which hundreds of Long-finned pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins are brutally slaughtered, although this tradition is severely attacked by organizations that fight for environmental justice and animal welfare. Recently, scientists and scholars protested against the hunting of pilot whales in particular, claiming that, given the extremely high levels of mercury in their system, the meat is inappropriate for human consumption. This became another major contributor of irremediable importance for the hunting of whales to stop for once and for all. Nonetheless, this insidious and lucrative market will fight until the end for their desire to exhaust and deplete the natural resources of the planet, and keep the slaughtering going on, against the poor and defenseless whales.
Unfortunately, it seems that there are no limits for the brutal and hideous human malevolence, that, blinded by its unscrupulous arrogance and acerbic lack of humanity, empathy and common sense, reclaims for oneself, as the sovereign legitimate owner of the universe, everything that exists in the world, with the power to exercise the right of life and death over the poor and defenseless animals, protected by all means, in each and every possible way, only in theory, by laws and regulations without any practical value, constantly violated at all times, for the sake of the degrading and ignominious gears of the capitalist machinery, that on its voracious and deranged hunger, wants to swallow everybody and everyone, especially the poor animals, the greatest victims in all of this terrible and perfidious – to say the least – environmental tragedy.
Wagner
Unfortunately, it seems that there are no limits for the brutal and hideous human malevolence, that, blinded by its unscrupulous arrogance and acerbic lack of humanity, empathy and common sense, reclaims for oneself, as the sovereign legitimate owner of the universe, everything that exists in the world, with the power to exercise the right of life and death over the poor and defenseless animals, protected by all means, in each and every possible way, only in theory, by laws and regulations without any practical value, constantly violated at all times, for the sake of the degrading and ignominious gears of the capitalist machinery, that on its voracious and deranged hunger, wants to swallow everybody and everyone, especially the poor animals, the greatest victims in all of this terrible and perfidious – to say the least – environmental tragedy.
Wagner
