Every year, usually in the months of october, november, december, january and february there is a gruesome tradition in Northern Scandinavia of killing more than 100 000 reindeers for food and culture, the people in Northern Scandinavia has a Christmas food table consisting of almost only reindeer meat. Whole hordes of wild reindeers are herded from the forests with snow mobiles and helicopters into a fenced area outside the forest where they are killed and slaughtered usually by severing the neck from the spine with a knife. Whole families, including children, takes part in this event known as "sarvslakt". The amount of reindeers killed is usually more than 100 000, most of them in Sweden, but also in Norway and Finland. Northern Scandinavia is a territory split between Sweden, Norway and Finland, and the reindeer slaughter is allowed in all 3 countries.
Video of a sarvslakt taking place in northern Sweden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD_5Rl_z76M
Children takes part in the slaughter:
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People enjoy slaughtering the reindeers
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The reindeer meat is exported to all around the world, if you find reindeer meat in a store and it says that it is from Sweden, Norway or Finland when it is most likely from one of these hunts.
Please help us make a stop to it!
