Ok. I feel obliged to comment. The vidoe does not work for me but I am familiar with the custom. Firstly, it's done on the Faroe Islands which, to all intents and purposes, is not Denmark. They don't even speak Danish there, they speak Faroese. However, some of the comments about the video, not made on this forum, got the old blood boiling. One ignoramus had the audacity to call Denmark "supposedly civilized"....he's now on the "First one to be fed to Jormundgand when Ragnarok breaks out" list.
It is a horrible custom. I have never nor will ever condone the unnecessary slaughter of animals for no practical purpose. That being said, this whole sanctimonious, pot-addled, head-in-sky-no-connection-to-reality, doped-up-to-the-gills, flower-in-hair-wearing-kumbaya-singing hippie nonsense about dolphins is getting on my tits! They're not Flipper! Flipper is dead! Some Hollywood executive probably had Flipper steak with potatoes and gravy! Ever eaten chicken, cow, veal, lamb, sheep or goat? Ever been to a feed-lot? Ever been to an industrial abattoir? The people on the Faroe Islands may be killing all those dolphins as a rite of passage, but they do actually make use of the slain beasts. They're not exactly hunting down their babies and clubbing them to death for their pelts with no added interest in their meat, a monstrous habit still practiced by some countries I might add! "Save the planet" was another comment...really??? Of all the things we could do to save the planet, our major concern should be the humane treatment of marine mammals??? I do not condone, as I have stated, mass-slaughter of animals, but if anyone can eat a steak and still argue about treating another species with decency and respect, they sorely are in need of a reality check. Now, I am going to eat my BLT, because I am a carnivore and I eat dead animals who, in appearance, look really cute and yet we slaughter them in great numbers every day and no-one seems to care, unless one of them starred in an unbearable saccharine TV-show a long, long, long, long, long time ago.