This article has no other purpose than to play with the emotions of uninformed people. The Faroe islanders mostly hunted Long Finned Pilet whale. I say hunted because last year the Faroese health officials recommended that the whale was not fit for human consumption because of high toxin levels in the meat. This should be of more concern to you than whale hunting.
Even though the Pilot whale is not classified by the IUCN because of lack of data other institutions have estimated that there are somewhere between 1 million to 200.000 Long Finned Pilot Whales.
Whales hunted in Iceland are mostly Minke whales, of which there are about 100.000 animals in the Arctic seas alone. In fact it is classified as "least concern" by IUCN along with another mammal, humans.
Food does not grow in the supermarket and the islanders have survived on what the sea gave them for over 1000 years. Grindadrap is just a part of that.
The pictures are gruesome but so are slaughterhouses. The whales lose consiuosness in seconds after the first cut and are usually dead with in a minute. If there is a more humane way to kill them I am sure that Faroese people would adapt that method.
You mention that the children are "happily killing gentle harmless animals" and that they will be "the next generation of senseless animal killers".
This is not a culture of killing, this is a culture of surviving. Yes they are proud and happy. They have meat on their plates.

Now, the comments really blew my mind away. Aside from the comment from boboshot it looks like the guest on this site have a tendency for violence. As is often the case with fanatics.
bobshot: The scientific "umbrella" is BS and I support sustainable commercial whaling. The state of the Atlantic Right Whale is terrible and more should be done to preserve them. This is a truly endangered species but the Faroese people have nothing to do with them being on the werge of extincion.
Doreen: "they need a taste of their own medecine and should have a limb hacked off" and then you end by saying that they are not civilized. What a load of mindless self-rightous idiocy. The fact that you're not even vaguely aware of the concept of irony says all that needs to be said about your mental capacity.
OMGKIKI123:
"whales and any animal have as much right as humans do to live."
So if you had been born on the fringes of the arctic I suppose you'd rather starve than feed your self. I bet it's all rainbows and unicorns where you live.
"i hope this people that are killing this poor beautiful animals soon feel the pain that the millions of whales or any other animal felt when humans were kiling and torchering them."
What a bout the right of humans to live you just mentioned?

You are misguided at best, dangerous at worst.