Ecologist: To the people of the Faroe Islands the annual (and to outsiders horrific) slaughter of pilot whales for food is a sustainable practice. Gavin Haines tries to make sense of this much maligned tradition and struggles to determine where we can and/or should impose a different cultural notion of sustainability on others.
The whale carcasses are shared out according to a set of ancient rules
Under a brooding sky on the Faroe Islands, I’m engaged in a mental battle. I’m forming, adjusting and reforming…

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