In this context "humanely" refers to killing them with as little suffering as possible, generally meaning to do so as quickly and painlessly as possible so the animal does not need to live in pain any longer than necessary before dying.

It does seem strange to me to do this with whales, but I also eat meat, so I'm in no real place to judge.

Damn,I wish someone would humanely murder me.

So you are entirely unaware that a large part of organic evolution on this planet has proceeded by species predation. Or are you aware of it but are simply sliding the definition of words to a disgusting degree to make woke points. Let us be clear what you are saying, animal husbandry for meat production is in your mind correctly defined as murder. So a man murdering a child is equivalent in your view to a man eating a steak, you are so willing to make your self righteous claims that you would allow the severity of child murder to be diminished.

Fair - how much does this idea overlap with colonialism in your mind? Usually we refer to colonialism as intervention for the sake of extraction, but it was/is often motivated through intervention for the sake of morals.

The primary species being hunted, pilot whales, according to the IUCN is least concern (the lowest rating) and they consider the hunts sustainable: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/9250/50356171 The dolphin species aren’t endangered, either.

If you object to this on the basis that they’re intelligent that’s fine, but I also hope you don’t eat pork, since pigs are also highly intelligent (and for factory farmed, they lived and died in far worse conditions).

The Faroese are indigenous, have they been doing it long enough?

No but if you feel angry at this animal cruelty you can use that to fuel your change away from the cruelty you inflict on animals yourself

Sure, feel free to go try to convince indigenous people to give up part of their way of life if that’s not ethically fraught to you. I’m not going to do it because if you care about animal suffering this isn’t even a drop in the ocean compared to factory farming. Effort is finite, I’m spending mine on the creatures living in factory farms, not the ocean.

‘They’re just bad and evil and do it for no reason’ would get you failed in an ethnic studies class. If you want to stop it from happening you need to understand the cultural background and significance. Cultures do change, but using colonial influence to force change isn’t the way to do it.

Is this culture?

Yeah, unfortunately it is. But there's a difference between traditions and ingrained cultural racism.

Is there a difference between the whale killing and this?

Is there a difference between continuation of traditional practices of food sourcing and culturally acceptable racism? Yes, definitely. Does that make culling whales morally acceptable? Of course not.

I think maybe the concept of culture being this unchangeable thing that transcends humanity and empathy

I never said that, though I can see how what I said could be perceived that way.

Yes in that culture, preferably after stopping the cull.

Some communities survive an entire year on a single whale hunt. Look, I understand why you're so incensed, it's horrific. But it's pretty privileged to judge other cultures by your personal standards and morals.

For what it's worth, you seem to be completely ignoring the fact that I've been saying this whole time that it SHOULD BE STOPPED. But to say that without knowing if those whales may be the only main food source for an entire community is pretty ignorant.

Check yourself. You can be disgusted and angry and disappointed with this and still understand that it may be a requirement for the survival of these people.