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.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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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.
Oddly enough, the disel produced by proccessing dead animals in germany can't even be sold in germany.
What an ignominious end 
This whale was on the news for several weeks. I was surprised at how much people were talking about it.
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
Deeply disrespectful and evil
If someone put this in a novel they'd get laughed at for being too obvious
Sounds like a great application for dynamite. After its dead of course.
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
blowing up whale carcasses is pretty famously a bad idea (cw: blowing up whale carcass)
just park further away tho
I don't think we should let a single setback ruin a perfectly sound plan like that.
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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!
the woman right afterwards going "here comes pieces of... my god!" has lived rent free in my head for 30 years
The human soap country is doing this? say it ain't so
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.
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.
They moved him off sandbanks several times, i think this is the 4th time he's been beached.
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