The workers are rural, not the resource - is that too complicated for you? I would certainly call many coastal communities of Newfoundland, PEI, or NS, where these sealers live, “rural.” Most of them don’t live in, or near, big cities. They go out to do this difficult, dangerous work to supplement their families’ incomes - certainly not for the fun of it. And, like most people involved in slaughtering animals as part of their profession, they probably don’t feel too much for the seals they’re killing. I would probably find it pretty appalling if I was out there - but I would probably find a slaughterhouse pretty appalling, too.