Stop Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in Faroe Islands!

Whales and dolphins are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They love to interact with people and are not dangerous. They have a great capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and dolphins for the sport. They do it to prove themselves an adut, and they do it for their blubber and meat.Islanders in motorboats drive the whales and dolphins into a bay. The terrified and confused animals are eventually driven into the shallows. This is where the bloodbath begins. The water turns red from all the killing. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living flesh of these animals until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed. The blood-stained bay is soon filled with mutilated and dying whales and dolphins.
The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in a carnival. Children are even given a day off of school to watch the "fun!" They run down an clamber over the carcasses.
Every year 2000 whales are slaughtered, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. The number of North Atlantic long-fineed pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and North Sea.
The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU health standards for human food.
The other animals included in these killings are: Bottle-nose dolphins, Atlantic white-beaked dolphin, Atlantic white-sided dolphin, and Harbour porpoise.

Some information came from a old petition and from a recent facebook link that made me want to reach out to the animals. I wish we could make this stop!