Iceland begins 2026 whale hunt

[Catherine]

Iceland has begun the 2026 whale hunt. The slaughter was cancelled in 2024 and 2025. They are planning to ban the hunt this fall.
It was hoped that there would not be a hunt this year. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envir...cial-hunt/


Sadly they have gone ahead with the hunt. It makes no sense. They have gone two years without a whale hunt. 
They plan to ban the hunt starting this coming fall. Why would they kill whales now?  There is little market for whale meat.
It is not profitable anymore. It is also not safe to eat the whale meat. Why do more whales have to die for nothing?
Why can't Iceland do the right thing and stop the hunt.

[LPC]

There is little market for whale meat.
It is not profitable anymore. It is also not safe to eat the whale meat. Why do more whales have to die for nothing?
Why can't Iceland do the right thing and stop the hunt.

Good questions, which get to the heart of the matter. But there are no answers. The whole exercise this year seems pointless and illogical: it makes no financial sense and the meat is too polluted to be consumed.

[Catherine]

Iceland was on the  right track. They had stopped the killing. I can't understand why they would start killing whales again.
Humans are strange. We keep doing things that we know we should stop. They are often things that we want to stop.
Yet we somehow keep on doing them. I will never understand why.

Hopefully they will go ahead with the ban this fall.