There are certain very small remote communities in the far north that are isolated and hard to reach. Whale and seal hunting provides a guaranteed food source for these small communities so that they don't have to depend on incredibly expensive (both resource and moneywise) imports. The Faroe Islands is not one of those places because obviously a cruise ship can easily get to it.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have been to Iceland and Greenland and Alaska and Norway, etc. I promise you there is no utilitarian need to hunt whales in any of these places. They all have grocery stores where you can buy pineapples for reasonable prices.

We can argue tradition, but there is no utility here.

[–] sangle_of_flame@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, do they?

like not every place has a grocery store that's easy to get to

[–] Pips@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have lived in two of those places for years and I can tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about.

For example, Fairbanks is only one third of the way up Alaska. There's still so much left north of it.