King’s Leadership Academy Liverpool Dingle Vale Liverpool L8 9SJ Fraser Nelson Editor The Spectator 22 Old Queen Street London SW1H 9HP 11th October 2014 Dear Mr Nelson I am writing to express how appalled I am about an article that I recently read from The Spectator magazine. The article ‘why we should let Faroe Islanders hunts whales’, written by Tim Ecott, shows a great misunderstanding of the barbaric event in which occurs annually in the Faroe Islands. This outdated tradition results in hundreds of innocent pilot whales being slaughtered. Whaling in the Faroe Islands continues to provoke emotional reactions from campaigners. I find the basis of Tim Ecott’s argument offensive as he tries to defend a tradition in which has been carried …show more content…
Both events are both equally brutal. You could argue that whaling in the Faroe Islands is far worse than whaling in Taiji as those in Taiji do the butchering behind an enclose cave, whereas in the Faroe Islands the repugnant activity takes place where those are welcome to watch and participate. In Taiji, babies are separated from their mothers for sale to theme parks, but in the Faroe Islands both mothers and babies are inhumanly tortured. Hundreds of dolphins are whales are driven ashore by fishermen in boats, they do this by sticking giant poles in the ocean. They bang vigorously against these poles, assembling a giant wall of sound in which stresses the dolphins leading to them being stranded ashore. Tim Ecott tries to give the impression that the methods of whaling in Taiji are far worse, when in fact both Taiji and The Faroe Islands methods of whaling are both putrid. The writer exaggerates about the traditional values of the hunt and the lifestyles of the natives, compared to those in Taiji, who kill for ‘food’. He says how there is a collection of 18 islands in the North sea where just 500,000 people still live a life of intimately connected to the elements. My interpretation from this is that he is trying to state that those who live on the Faroe Islands have to catch and kill their own food for