If accurate, this new survey on attitudes to whaling in Iceland makes for gloomy reading & strongly suggests the practice is not just being driven by millionaire businessman Kristján Loftsson ...
Sixty Percent of Icelanders Support Fin Whaling
Close to 60 percent of respondents to a new survey are rather or strongly in favor of the hunting of fin whales.
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The survey, conducted by Stöd 2 and Fréttablaðið from June 26-27, asked 802 people on their attitude towards fin whaling.
Around 9 percent of respondents were rather or strongly against the practice while 24 percent said they were neutral.
Attitudes varied depending on whether respondents lived in the city or countryside: around 21 percent of respondents living in the city reported that they were against fin whaling compared to 13 percent of those interviewed in the countryside.
Read the full story at http://www.icelandreview.com/ icelandreview/search/news/ Default.asp?ew_0_a_id=401189
Image: Fin whale being processed (c) Páll StefánssonSee More
If accurate, this new survey on attitudes to whaling in Iceland makes for gloomy reading & strongly suggests the practice is not just being driven by millionaire businessman Kristján Loftsson ...
Sixty Percent of Icelanders Support Fin Whaling
Close to 60 percent of respondents to a new survey are rather or strongly in favor of the hunting of fin whales.
...
The survey, conducted by Stöd 2 and Fréttablaðið from June 26-27, asked 802 people on their attitude towards fin whaling.
Around 9 percent of respondents were rather or strongly against the practice while 24 percent said they were neutral.
Attitudes varied depending on whether respondents lived in the city or countryside: around 21 percent of respondents living in the city reported that they were against fin whaling compared to 13 percent of those interviewed in the countryside.
Read the full story at http://www.icelandreview.com/ icelandreview/search/news/ Default.asp?ew_0_a_id=401189
Image: Fin whale being processed (c) Páll StefánssonSee More
Sixty Percent of Icelanders Support Fin Whaling
Close to 60 percent of respondents to a new survey are rather or strongly in favor of the hunting of fin whales.
...
The survey, conducted by Stöd 2 and Fréttablaðið from June 26-27, asked 802 people on their attitude towards fin whaling.
Around 9 percent of respondents were rather or strongly against the practice while 24 percent said they were neutral.
Attitudes varied depending on whether respondents lived in the city or countryside: around 21 percent of respondents living in the city reported that they were against fin whaling compared to 13 percent of those interviewed in the countryside.
Read the full story at http://www.icelandreview.com/
Image: Fin whale being processed (c) Páll StefánssonSee More

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