...now that I've gotten your attention, I'd like to say that opposition to the seal hunt is racist and stupid. Now, I don't apply this to the non-reasonable mass slaughters, those are not but so often celberties, and otherwise well meaning people, are opposing it on the bases that it's just so bad.

Now I know alot of people will go "waaahht" and raise their eyebrows in confusion. After all a good many liberals, think they're doing a good thing by opposing the seal hunt. That said, lets cut through the propoganda that people put out there to make themselves feel nice about themselves.

Here's an example:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2006-03...

TORONTO (AP) — Actress Pamela Anderson's has added her name to the growing list of celebrities speaking out against Canada's annual seal hunt, which just got underway.



Anderson, a native of British Columbia in western Canada, said she hopes to visit Ottawa on Monday to meet with Harper. The prime minister turned down a similar request by French film legend Brigitte Bardot, who traveled to Ottawa last week to protest the hunt.

The seal hunt has attracted plenty of celebrity protesters this year, including former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, who called the cull "a stain on the character of the Canadian people" and urged the government to turn to ecotourism in the region.

British singer Morrissey said he won't include Canada on any tours until the seal hunt ends.



Okay, so it sounds horrible. And yes, clubbing baby seals to death is unpleasnt. But the response of many cleberties, is just so silly it isn't even funny. And if they were really liberal they would consider that many inuit and first nations people in Canada, an oppressed group througout Canada's history, rely on the seal hunt. I'm quite sure it's the same in other inuit populations throughout the arctic.

So let's consider this shall we?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...

Canadian Press

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Two Inuit leaders say pop star Paul McCartney's recent campaign against the Canadian seal hunt is silly and disrespectful to wildlife.

The ex-Beatle visited the East Coast region this month to stage a high-profile photo-op on the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, calling for the end of the centuries-old commercial hunt.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the elected Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, and Duane Smith, president of the conference, say in a news release issued Monday that Ottawa should reject McCartney's advice.

They are urging a federally funded campaign in Europe and the United States to counter his message.



Watt-Cloutier said if McCartney wants to save seals, he should help Inuit stop climate change which is destroying sea ice - the habitat of seals.

She invited the pop star to visit the Arctic to learn what seal hunting means to Inuit.

Also, people must remember that the Seal hunt is conducted along the Labradorian coast, which is largely populated and conducted by Innu people.

Anyways let's not forget this either:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/st...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A top Canadian Inuit official defended his country's seal hunt Monday, saying it was vital to the survival of aboriginal peoples in the Arctic and provided an economic lifeline for an area desperate for jobs and growth.

Paul Okalik, premier of Canada's northern Nunavut territory, said the majority of the 30,000 people in his region were dependent on seals and other native species like polar bear and fish for their everyday food.

"This is our daily basic diet - we can't grow potatoes. . . . It's something we require to continue to survive and its far more nutritious than what is imported from southern Canada," Okalik told reporters.

"So we will continue to eat it, and assist our diets in living healthy. . . . You do your thing and we will continue to do ours."

So essentially my point is this, nuance people. Remember that certain people rely on this, and while you may think that your doing a good thing by opposing it. With out remembering the nunance that the Inuit rely on it, your really being racist. Why such a harsh word? Because it's a part of their culture, and your ignoring that. So oppose the commercial, un-regulated hunt if you must, but don't be so wide reaching and simplistically unrealistic.