I’m against hunting in principle, so I couldn’t understand why foreigners painted all Maltese people with the same brush when it comes to bird hunting. We don’t all hunt. But then I understood. After watching the popular TV programme Le Iene, I felt anger and disgust for all the people on the Faroe Islands for very similar reasons.

I’m not sure if they are all in favour, but that’s pretty much irrelevant. The islanders practice a sick, barbaric tradition called Grindadráp, which sees hundred, no thousands of whales killed senselessly every summer.

I say senselessly because they do not eat the whale meat, or have any use for any part of the dead whales they are apparently thrown back to sea. It is purely a tradition which these people see fit to continue practising (wonder where I heard that before).

I can’t see why the people on the Faroe Islands (or Maltese hunters for the matter) can’t follow the example of their Danish cousins and take on the traditional Nøgenløbet Roskilde (Roskilde Naked Run) or their Finnish neighbour’s Wife Carrying Competition. Why is it that some people have to kill something to feel good?

This is something that should be stopped – as should hunting in Malta, bullfighting in Spain, dog-fighting and cock-fighting, and any other barbaric practice that results in the useless death of an animal.

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