“The Eskimo and Alaskan native population as well as the Russian coastal populations were there LONG before a safeway was ever built in your city”
Agreed. But I don’t live in a city.
“and they NEED these whales as their livelihood and food.”
Sorry. I disagree. These people hunt whales as they consider it part of their culture. While the taking of whales in this fashion is far less damaging than by commercial whalers, its time for them to change their culture. Go back far enough and my ancestors in Europe took heads as trophies, and as much as the idea intrigues me when dealing with liberals, times change as people change. I never head of an Innuit who starved to death recently because he couldn’t harvest a whale.
“They can not travel thousands of miles to a store.”
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So what? Again, I never heard of whales being a necessary ingredient today in the survival of any aboriginal people. Let them eat carabou or walrus or seal.
” There are hundreds of thousands of people who still live off the land. “
Yes. So do I. But I do because I like it, not because I’ll starve to death if I can’t get it.
“Hunting whales is not just to slaughter them for sport. They use every square inch, from stomach to bone for clothing, tools, shelter and food.”
I think you are conflating the past with the present.
“Stop living in your city-dwelling bubble of thinking and stop dictating to subsistence populations how they should live.”
I’ll remember that in the fall when I take my next buck.
“I never head of an Innuit who starved to death recently because he couldn’t harvest a whale.”
You clearly know nothing about living in extreme northern parts of the globe. There is a tiny season for whaling and the other game you spoke of is not plentiful. If all the meat and other supplies obtained from whale were replaced by killing seal, the eco system would be seriously affected as in polar bears starving. As I said, stop dictating how “other” people should change their culture and leave them alone.
As for the buck you’ll get next season, try to feed an entire village on it.
I got's to differ with you there....