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[/audioplayer]Imagine if a bunch of Bollywood celebrities turned up in Britain to protest outside steak houses, lie down in front of abattoir trucks as they tried to leave beef farms and started describing Britain as ‘barbaric’ for killing cattle.
You have just got an idea of what it must be like to be a Faroe Islander trying to go about your business harvesting whales from the Atlantic. As has become clear over the spate of stranding at Skegness and Hunstanton, whales have become our sacred species, as Simon Barnes points out in an article in the latest issue of The Spectator.
We weep over them, engage in the pointless – and probably cruel – business of trying to refloat them, even though their internal organs have already been crushed under their own weight.
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