So, I found out what happened with Sea Shephard in the Faroes this year.

Their idea backfired.

In 2015, Sea Shepherd launched the “Sleppi Grindini 2015” campaign in the Faroe Islands. The organization made videos and photos during a whale hunt, drive and slauhtering of 111 pilot whales in the village Bur.[92][93] The blood of the whales coloured the sea red for several minutes, as it normally does when pilot whales are slaughtered. Sea Shepherd put the video on the Internet on the same day[94] and shared it on the social media. On the following days, medias from all over the world told the stories of the hunt,[95] several of them used Sea Shepherds own words like “horrifying scenes”,[96] “mass killing”[97] “bloody event”,[98] “horrific slaughter”[98] (rt.com) and descibing the Faroese people as “heartless”,[96]. Sea Shepherd urged people to send protest mails to all 179 members of the Danish parliament. The Danish MP’s received half a million more emails then normal the following week in the end of July 2015, and some of the politician received death threats.[99] On 30 July 2015 the Danish television DR2 with Martin Krasnik had an interview with the vice president of Sea Shepherd Denmark, Valentina Crast. Crast admitted, that the slaughtering of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands was not more brutal then other kinds of slaughtering of animals for food, and that it was not illigal. She claimed, that it would be better for the environment, if the Faroese people stop getting free meat by slaughtering pilot whales on the Faroese bays and in stead buy their food from supermarkets, she mentioned food like papaya, rice and beans, all of which does not grow in the Faroe Islands because it is too cold, but must be imported from very long distance, [100]i.e. it takes 36 hours by ferry from Denmark to the Faroe Islands.

I am usually against whaling, but the Sea Shephard organization goes too far. More over, the whales are an important source of food for the Faroes. They lack good agricultural land, and it is nasty weather wise, and the climate is brutal.