{"id":33856,"date":"2017-08-18T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33856"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T12:01:55","slug":"tourists-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/08\/tourists-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists in iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland makes a fair old bit of money<br \/>\nTaking tourists out to watch the whales<br \/>\nMost of them are Minke  in whale terms kind of dinky<br \/>\nThoughtless though for really  where  it fails<br \/>\nIs these same tourists watching in the mornings<br \/>\nAre eating the same animals at night<br \/>\nHow is this an ethical state of reasoning<br \/>\nSo its tourists eating whales there and how is that right?<\/p>\n<p>Icelanders dont want whales on the menu<br \/>\nIt makes no sense to kill them anyway<br \/>\nWhale watching is big business<br \/>\nOfcourse it makes more sense<br \/>\nSo many tourists go out everyday<br \/>\nAmericans are watching and then eating<br \/>\nWhale steaks and french fries seem to be the thing<br \/>\nInconsiderateness appears to be a factor here<br \/>\nIt really is illogical to bring<br \/>\nFamilies to these restaurants in the evening<br \/>\nAnd eat the very animals that you came<br \/>\nTo watch out on the ocean it doesnt make  any sense<br \/>\nAnd really the icelandic resturants are to blame<\/p>\n<p>Clearly its not part of the peoples diet<br \/>\nOnly philistines would eat it  they<br \/>\nEat fish and other sea foods<br \/>\nOf course they do<br \/>\nBut whales are not for eating anyway<br \/>\nReally its absurd that tourists do this<br \/>\nAnd lots of whales are being killed now so<br \/>\nTourists can eat whale steaks with their ketchup<br \/>\nAnd go home telling friends now what they know<\/p>\n<p>Its lunacy to imagine them as food upon your table<br \/>\nAt the same time pay to watch them in the sea<br \/>\nTourists are deranged to go along with this<br \/>\nThey really need to get some therapy<br \/>\nIf you are planning to go across to iceland<br \/>\nRemember the icelanders wont eat whale<br \/>\nThey realise the senselessness of killing a cash cow<br \/>\nDo go and watch them bask and flip their tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland makes a fair old bit of money Taking tourists out to watch the whales Most of them are Minke in whale terms kind of dinky Thoughtless though for really where it fails Is these same tourists watching in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/08\/tourists-in-iceland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,301,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-travel","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33858,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33856\/revisions\/33858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}