Letters / Barbaric fiasco
I would like to offer a response to Páll Holm Johannesen (Whale hunt is regulated and sustainable; SN, 25/07/15):
“We are surprised that you would allow newspaper [sic] to be such an uncritical and one-sided mouthpiece for the views of a highly disreputable animal rights group.”
First, the Shetland News is not a newspaper but an online publication, second, I’d like a citation/link etc for your assertion of disreputability.
“The disreputable and misleadingly named “Sea Shepherd Conservation Society” is on a mission to ban all use of marine wildlife, no matter the purpose.”
(Disreputable again!) Really? So they are against commercial fishing, scallop dredging, salmon and mussel farming? I don’t think so.
“Sea Shepherd representatives will go to any lengths to paint a negative picture of the Faroese whale hunt as ‘cruel’”
Whale ‘hunt’! Are you having a laugh?
The whole barbaric fiasco puts me in mind of the ‘bloodying’ of the children of our ‘aristocracy’ and ‘royalty’ at the fox ‘hunt’ which the present UK government would like to re-introduce.
Do you (Páll Holm Johannesen) seriously think that the rest of the world thinks that the Faroese in the 21st century need whale meat to survive? We don’t!
Alan Crowe
Schoolhouse
Aith
Shetland.
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