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Watching anything like that is always going to be uncomfortable. Had they used an abattoir gun would this have made it more palatable? Do we kick up as much of a fuss about Halal butchery (same thing but with livestock)? They do the same thing every year to Pilot whales in the Faroes and have done for hundreds of years, apparently sustainably. If you thought that video was gory imagine what its like when its done by hand with hooks and rope to an animal about 4 times the size. Although this happens much closer to home there is not the regular outcry as happens with Japan.

Would I personally do this to a dolphin? No chance. Have I done it to a trout? Yes. Is there a difference? I don't know the answer to that one.

I enjoyed the news that whaling fleet had to come home early but I just cannot bring myself to condemn the principle of hunting a plentiful population of animals, regardless of how gruesome it is when you actually see it. If those dolphins are endangered it would of course change my outlook but I doubt they are. Pulling great whites out the water, lopping their fins off and chucking them back to spend a few weeks dying on the seabed upsets me more.