Protesting a perfectly sustainable and humane harvest of a fundamentally renewable resource is just plain stupid but at least it gets her face in the press.

I stand with the sealers!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/whining-seal-hunt-twaddle/article1206016/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_gTBDFTXE0

“there are people who depend on getting their hands dirty and bloody to feed their families? [...] There are men, women and children who depend on the seafood industry, including the seal hunt.”

What an absurd argument!

According to that line of reasoning, then the nazi concentration camps shouldn’t have been closed because all the guards were going to lose their jobs (as someone very well put it in another post here on Ecorazzi).

But let’s not stop there: what about drug dealers? They also need to feed their families, therefore it’s okay for them to continue to sell drugs!
What about Afghanistan? Do you know that it’s the world’s top producer of heroin? And do you know that the ones responsible for this ‘production’ are small farmers who need to make money to feed themselves and their families? So let them keep doing it! So what if tons of drugs get in the USA and other countries every year and kill thousands of people? Hey, the Afghan farmers need to feed their families as well!!
But let’s continue: what about oil companies? Hey, let them drill everywhere they wish! After all, they create thousands of jobs. What about logging companies? Let them just cut down as many trees as they desire!
And what about factory farms, fur farms, cosmetic animal testing… and so on?

Do you see a pattern here!?

Just because an industry provides jobs or supports numerous families, it doesn’t mean it must be protected and perpetuated indefinitely. There are always alternatives.
If something is plain wrong and hurts others (humans and non-humans) and the environment, it must be stopped as quickly as possible.

It’s people like you (who from now on I will call ‘evil defenders’), who are always defending ‘evil’ companies and industries, that are in the way of the evolution of mankind!!

So don’t come here whining about those ‘fishermen’ and their families. If they were intelligent evolved people, they would have started thinking of another way to make money long ago!

@Shari…

No one is protesting against the Inuit…! So I’m not even getting into that!

“Self-serving organizations and celebrities who are pseudo experts, should come together with the seal hunters and community leaders to brainstorm solutions rather than protesting.”

Do you want solutions?

Well, my country for instance used to be a whaling country. This industry was based at two groups of islands we have in the Atlantic ocean. After we ended whaling we started developing tourism, in particular whale watching. It’s now a successful industry (more than whaling) and we also have a university in one of those islands dedicated especially to marine research.

The problem with ‘your’ seal hunters is that they don’t want solutions. They want to cling to practices that no longer make sense in the 21st century!

Tell me something, have you ever seen how they club seals to death?
Maybe you should watch a video of it first, before being an ‘evil defender’ and sticking up for those sadistic people!!