| The 8th paragraph 07:58 - Oct 12 with 930 views | gtsb1966 |
I'm trying to get my head around the fact that Canada forbids keeping a whale, porpoise or dolphin captive , and rightly so, but still doesn't make the heinous act of seal clubbing illegal. Am I missing something here?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kn6x711y2o |  | | |  |
| The 8th paragraph on 09:42 - Oct 12 with 735 views | Guthrum |
Firstly, there's still some demand for commercial seal products - tho rapidly shrinking* - and communities which economically rely on it. Secondly, the Inuit hunt seals for food and clothing.
Keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is purely for entertainment.
* If we want to end commercial sealing, don't wear sealskin or eat the meat. People have this bad habit of wanting to wear traditional high-status clothing and eat traditional foods, despite the fact that the modern, wealthy mass market creates more demand than the environment can supply (it was sustainable when only ten people in China could afford to import rhino horn - now ten million or more are wanting it). In the modern age, we have the ability to create effective synthetic equivalents of animal fur (Gore-Tex is a lot lighter and cheaper than sealskin), tho the use of plastics brings its own set of issues. |  |
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| The 8th paragraph on 09:53 - Oct 12 with 704 views | WeWereZombies |
| The 8th paragraph on 09:42 - Oct 12 by Guthrum |
Firstly, there's still some demand for commercial seal products - tho rapidly shrinking* - and communities which economically rely on it. Secondly, the Inuit hunt seals for food and clothing.
Keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is purely for entertainment.
* If we want to end commercial sealing, don't wear sealskin or eat the meat. People have this bad habit of wanting to wear traditional high-status clothing and eat traditional foods, despite the fact that the modern, wealthy mass market creates more demand than the environment can supply (it was sustainable when only ten people in China could afford to import rhino horn - now ten million or more are wanting it). In the modern age, we have the ability to create effective synthetic equivalents of animal fur (Gore-Tex is a lot lighter and cheaper than sealskin), tho the use of plastics brings its own set of issues. |
I seriously considered buying a pair of sealskin shoes a couple of years ago, it was a day or two after I was cornered by Cape fur Seals in Namibia. Absolute bastards, give me pigeons any day. |  |
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| The 8th paragraph on 15:09 - Oct 12 with 466 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| The 8th paragraph on 09:53 - Oct 12 by WeWereZombies |
I seriously considered buying a pair of sealskin shoes a couple of years ago, it was a day or two after I was cornered by Cape fur Seals in Namibia. Absolute bastards, give me pigeons any day. |
Fur seals are more physically similar to sea lions than to most species of seal.
Big old girls and boys, aren't they? |  | | |
| The 8th paragraph on 15:39 - Oct 12 with 419 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The 8th paragraph on 09:53 - Oct 12 by WeWereZombies |
I seriously considered buying a pair of sealskin shoes a couple of years ago, it was a day or two after I was cornered by Cape fur Seals in Namibia. Absolute bastards, give me pigeons any day. |
Do they make pigeon-skin boots? Are they as effective as seal-skin ones? Order me 10 pairs, please. Local pigeons only! |  |
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| The 8th paragraph on 16:41 - Oct 12 with 355 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The 8th paragraph on 09:42 - Oct 12 by Guthrum |
Firstly, there's still some demand for commercial seal products - tho rapidly shrinking* - and communities which economically rely on it. Secondly, the Inuit hunt seals for food and clothing.
Keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is purely for entertainment.
* If we want to end commercial sealing, don't wear sealskin or eat the meat. People have this bad habit of wanting to wear traditional high-status clothing and eat traditional foods, despite the fact that the modern, wealthy mass market creates more demand than the environment can supply (it was sustainable when only ten people in China could afford to import rhino horn - now ten million or more are wanting it). In the modern age, we have the ability to create effective synthetic equivalents of animal fur (Gore-Tex is a lot lighter and cheaper than sealskin), tho the use of plastics brings its own set of issues. |
I imagine the Canadian Inuits are struggling to preserve that traditional way of life now. My better half filmed in Greenland about 15/16 years ago now, looking at the Greenlanders’ way of life and they were struggling to find many winters then when they could take dog sleds across the sea ice looking for seals. The sea ice extents and duration have only shrunk since then. |  |
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