Hunting the 'Guga' right or wrong?!
Guga are young Gannets which were the staple of the St Kildians and are hunted today by the people of the Western Isles (a very controlled cull) and are dished up as a delicacy...
Answers: i placed this on the vegetarian page, not to insult, only because on this page i like to hear the views of radical vegitarians, no person with frozen processed meat in the freezer has a right to complain.....
Guga are young Gannets which were the staple of the St Kildians and are hunted today by the people of the Western Isles (a very controlled cull) and are dished up as a delicacy...
As a vegan, it doesn't really matter to me what people are killing but rather that they are killng. So obviously I believe it to be wrong on a personal level, but no more wrong than kiling cows, pigs, sheep...
My readings have said that the taste is very 'acquired' (ie most people thought it to be pretty revolting) but St Kildans risked life & limb to get the birds and their eggs & their choices were very limited. St Kildas history is of course amazing & somewhat sad.
Never seen it offered anywhere when I've been up to the Hebrides so wasn't aware that the eating of it still continues.
taste like a cross between steak and kippers....the teuchters boil it up and is completley minging
the cull is controled, but my opinion stil veers toward cruel
on main land UK gannets have now become a problem as they are eating all the fish stocks everywhere when they arrive at a lake they will not leave till there's nothing left to eat they will and have completely emptied ponds and lakes of all the fish they are still protected but you are allowed to control them vie a license as to eating them i don't think i will bother
Delicacy suggests a luxury.
A luxury is something that is unnecessary.
Unnecessary is a lot closer to wrong than it is to right.
The people of the Western Isles obviously don't *need* to "cull" guga to survive. I suppose "a very controlled cull" is better than an all-out slaughter, but still unnecessary. About the only redeeming feature is that they are not Japanese killing whales "scientifically" thousands of miles away from their own territorial waters, and pretending it's not for commercial use.