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    3 months ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

    • been going on since the 9th century
    • Faroese cuisine is generally dominated by the use of animal products, as only about 2% of the 1,393 km2 of land on the islands is at all suitable for arable crops
    • a 2008 paper in Australian Archaeology said conservationists find Faroese whaling particularly offensive because it does not conform to traditional Western perspectives on “primitive” tribes