1) they DON’T hunt whitecoats. it’s only adult seals
2) the process is as quick and painless as possible. there’s a special technique in clubbing for an instantaneous death. hunters are very well trained and don’t hunt with the intention of harming the animal any more than it needs to be
3) not only is it government regulated but hunters only reach maybe 15 percent of their annual quota
4) seals consume an obscene amount of fish. to the point where it’s actually detrimental to the environment to have the population of seals get too high
5) seal meat is incredibly nutritious and an important resource for communities up north
6) these animals live in the wild their full lives until the need to be hunted
7) the cost of typical southern food up north is often 10 times as high and it’s very expensive to live off a diet without using the lands provided resources
seal meal is a very nutritious important resource that’s ethically sourced and important for indigenous people not only culturally but for survival through economic means and resources. equating indigenous practices to the mass consumption that the colonist meat industry enforced is a false equivalence. specifically targeting communities limited recourses and attacking indigenous people is an act of racism. try decolonizing your perception of how the world operates. we aren’t like you.
It’s so nasty that one of the greatest loss of seals is from commercial farming, by way of by fishing. (Sea creatures getting caught while they’re fishing for other sea creatures) and yet, indigenous populations who are deliberately being starved out by the colonizer government where they live are who are condemned for sealing? For survival hunting, where the animal’s suffering is as minimal as possible? While living where the most basic groceries are priced as luxury goods?
It’s an age old trick. Keep people blaming the oppressed group, keep people stomping on those below them, so they don’t look up at those who are stomping on them.
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