comment on it, if you want to. I am also trying to make the point that the more people outside the Faroes condemn the Faroese and the more they punish the Faroese by not buying their export goods or by not travelling to the islands, the more isolated will the Faroese be isolated from the rest of the world, and the more they will tend to stick to their old traditions - which in the end means thaat the more pilot whales will be killed! It's just common sense... Philbee, thank you for posting about this in your blog. It has provided insight and links to further educate us on the topic. I just want to provide a little more information (and perhaps some cultural relativism) to help your reader's out. "Pilot whales are taken for food in the Faroe Islands. Both the meat and blubber of pilot whales have long been and continue to be a staple part of the national diet. Catches of whales are shared largely without the exchange of money among the participants in a hunt and residents of the local district where they are landed. This also means that the economic value of pilot whale meat and blubber does not appear as a part of the GDP of the Faroes, but its significance can be measured against the economic and environmental costs of importing the same amount of food. An annual catch of 950 whales (the average annual catch over the past ten years, 1990-1999)