The Other Seal Hunt

there was an episode of the simpsons where lisa turns vegetarian,but the best part of the episode is when troy mcclure takes a young boy through a slaughter house/the killing floor !

as the son of a butcher,i know how DISTURBING that sight is and when the other side of the world has a killing floor on virgin snow...it makes for a real eye opener.

what some people go through to survive still surprises me...

just think back to one or two airplane crashes and then the road to california back in the early days,history is rife with tales of cannabalism.

none of us are innocent...

The inuit aren't harvesting thousands. Boy, the 'green ngo's' certainly get a badmouthing when its OUR problems held up for scrutiny. Suddenly everybody starts rallying around the flag when other countries point the finger at US, no matter what the reason.

Actually those that support the sealers whether from Newfoundland or the Inuit and other aboriginal peoples, are in a distinct minority in Canada. Overwhelming urban support outside of the North and the Rock, is in favour of the anti-sealing lobby, as the Green Party showed during the last election, as I wrote on my blog.

It would interesting to find out just how much income is actually generated by these seal hunts, wherever they may exist. I've heard that the average in the maritimes is about 1000 dollars per hunter although I've yet to see many references. Doesn't sound like much. Anyway some of the "reasons" given for supporting this thing sound like the excuses that marxists (and such like) give for supporting totalitarianism in the far east. This is part of their "culture" we are told. Therefore we must be "tolerant" and to do otherwise is "racist", or words to that effect. Sounds like something politicians might say in order to get votes.

i guess if we don't want the northern native living like they have lived for who knows how long,we can ship them all down to the big cities and integrate them like we have done with all the other natives.

make them speak english,deny their religious rights and teach them to worship consumerism...

yes,TEACH THEM THE WHITE WAY...BUT DON'T SHOW THEM THOSE HUMUNGOUS SLAUGHTERHOUSES THAT SLAUGHTER MILLIONS OF ANIMALS A YEAR...

THEY JUST MIGHT SEE THE HYPOCRISY...then again if you get lucky they will all be on welfare and won't see anything but their own misery,like the rest of the native population,held in your bondage of greed and stupidity.

Undoubtedly, we are a species that has not evolved in the most humane direction.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't you have anything better to do than stir up nonsense about the seal hunt? The push against the hunt is directed at the larger commercial hunt. It is the Inuit support for this larger hunt that is beginning to paint them with the same bloodied brush.
Subsistence hunting would fair much better if large commercial greed did not have their apparent support. They do not benefit from it so it is unclear why there would be any support from them.
If they too took a stand against the annual slaughter, they would be the only seal hunters remaining. As long as they remaned true to tradition and did not seek to emulate the maritime mess, I do not see any major campaign to rise up against them.
By the way, showing a white furred seal is not propaganda. It is what they looked like just days before the slaughter. There would be more recent photos if the DFO did not keep seal supporters away until they are all already dead.

as for the fur industry thing, fur fashion is not a subsistance industry. The hunters do not fair well but the middlemen do and it is their welfare the industry is worried about.
Killiing for a fashion trend is not a traditional way of life and cannot be defended as such. The northern economy may have included it for many years but there are centuries of tradition prior, without such commercial taint.

All I see here is another attempt to defend the annual slaughter on the backs of aboriginal tradition. It is another lie and does not help anyone but fashion industry greed and political scapegoating. Talk about propaganda!.