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To be fair they also plan to dissect it, you know try and figure out why it did strand, put the skeleton in a museum and such but still: certified germany moment.

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 20 points 14 hours ago

The human soap country is doing this? say it ain't so

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago

Deeply disrespectful and evil

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 25 points 16 hours ago

This whale was on the news for several weeks. I was surprised at how much people were talking about it.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 23 points 16 hours ago

while it is apparently still a fuel resource germans don't usually eat whale so everybody can pretend to really care about animals for a bit there

[-] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 34 points 17 hours ago

After reading this disgusting plan for a still living, suffering animal, I really hope someone manages to drag his corpse into open waters so nobody can get their hands on him. Let the whale's body decompose in the ocean, like it should, and not make it into fucking fuel.

[-] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago

It's such a horrifying thought. I shouldn't be surprised when a largely carnist society sees an animal as nothing more than a resource, but it's still pretty upsetting to read.

I hope the whale is able to decompose naturally too.

[-] Nama@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

Oddly enough, the disel produced by proccessing dead animals in germany can't even be sold in germany.

[-] facow@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

What an ignominious end sadness-abysmal

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 21 points 17 hours ago

If someone put this in a novel they'd get laughed at for being too obvious

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They couldn't get a helicopter out there? I'm not an expert on whale rescue but it seems like the EU should have been able to get something together.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That was a decision by the officials to leave the whale beached despite volunteers organizing a rescue effort.

Whether the whale would survive, who knows but it was decided that if the whale can't make it back to the sea by itself, it's not worth helping it back into the water.

[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

They moved him off sandbanks several times, i think this is the 4th time he's been beached.

[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 14 points 17 hours ago

Sounds like a great application for dynamite. After its dead of course.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 19 points 17 hours ago

im-vegan but having the thing on life support, stranded, just to eventually die anyways feels much less humane to me than just having one big whale explosion while it's alive. This has been considered but apparently it's too risky but that kind of feels like a cop out to me

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago
[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

I don't think we should let a single setback ruin a perfectly sound plan like that.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

just park further away tho

[-] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago

I am laughing despite myself, but this was probably the driest and funniest way of reporting on that fucked up of a plan. Thanks for sharing!

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

the woman right afterwards going "here comes pieces of... my god!" has lived rent free in my head for 30 years

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