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Canada gives the go-ahead for the slaughter of 500 Narwhales (pg. 3)
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
What both the article and the OP fail to mention (or realize perhaps) is that those being allowed to hunt the Narwhales are Inuits, exclusively. Hunting Narwhales has long since been a traditional way of life for the Inuit. Under the Indian Act, which is the act that established and governs the Aboriginal Reserve system in Canada, all aboriginal peoples are allowed to hunt and fish as they traditionally have irrespective of fishing/gaming laws applicable to non-aboriginals. In order to prevent the hunt the Canadian Government would have had to amend the Indian Act, which would have opened a multitude of land claim arguments (most notably the entire reserve system, as the ability to hunt and fish per tradition was one of the key trade-offs in negotiating the reserve system), social assistance reforms, and self-governance discussions.
It should be noted that the "economics" discussion is complete bunk. The Inuit do not pay income tax if they are residents of a reserve; the ability to hunt these whales only extends to Inuits who are residents of reserves, thus the Canadian government will see no revenue from this hunt.
Additionally, the culled whales are all from the Eclipse Sound area of Baffin Island. There were approximately 500 whales killed. The Eclipse Sound area has a population of approximately 21,000 Narwhales.
Finally, the whales hunted were all hunted in holes cut through the ice for the express purpose of hunting. Most if not all of the culled whales would have died of suffocation if not hunted as the hunting holes were the only air holes available to them... this is a traditional method of hunting for the Inuit; meaning, they only kill whales that would have been trapped and died anyway. What is concerning is that so many whales were trapped this year. Even more concerning is that this appears to be an ongoing trend, which is presently being studied and for which a number of the culled whales will be send to the Ministry of Natural Resources.
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That's great and all...but in this day and age, there is no reason to be hunting these animals anymore. Same thing with hunting poor little bambi. If u need meat, hit up your local Grocery store. There is no shortage of cows, and are far from becoming extinct. |
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| geroin |
| YEAHH NARHWALLS WILL STEVE IRWIN THOSE KILLA MOTHER******S GOD DAMN |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
That's great and all...but in this day and age, there is no reason to be hunting these animals anymore. Same thing with hunting poor little bambi. If u need meat, hit up your local Grocery store. There is no shortage of cows, and are far from becoming extinct. |
You, clearly have no idea of what you're talking about...
Since there are no roads between pond inlet and Iqaluit and Baffin island cannot be crossed you're talking a 1500km coast hugging journey by dog sled or snowmobile to get to the nearest grocery store... that's 3-4 days by dog and about 2.5-3 by snowmobile. |
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| gazelles |
| i want to go to Alert, Canada just to say i have |
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| elFreak |
ing hippies and their wanting to stop Inuit populations from doing what they have done for centuries especially considering the fact that these environmentalists never seem to remember how we pretty much did the same thing to the natives as they do to the whales.
save a tree eat a beaver imo. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by gazelles
i want to go to Alert, Canada just to say i have |
Alert...
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| elFreak |
ing hippies.
good riddance. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
That's great and all...but in this day and age, there is no reason to be hunting these animals anymore. Same thing with hunting poor little bambi. If u need meat, hit up your local Grocery store. There is no shortage of cows, and are far from becoming extinct. |
You are a moron. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
You, clearly have no idea of what you're talking about...
Since there are no roads between pond inlet and Iqaluit and Baffin island cannot be crossed you're talking a 1500km coast hugging journey by dog sled or snowmobile to get to the nearest grocery store... that's 3-4 days by dog and about 2.5-3 by snowmobile. |
Ok let me clarify...there is no reason to slaughter whales in this day and age no matter what geographical location u are at on this planet. If u think these Indians live life without any technology and access to other types of food sources, u need to get harpooned yourself. Just because it's been a way of life for thousands of years does not make it right. Too many animals have been hunted to extinction due to some stupid ass human greed. Do I have to put it into a Christian or church type of reason for u to see the light? God frowns upon this worthless killing and damns u to hell...there. |
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| elFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Ok let me clarify...there is no reason to slaughter whales in this day and age no matter what geographical location u are at on this planet. If u think these Indians live life without any technology and access to other types of food sources, u need to get harpooned yourself. Just because it's been a way of life for thousands of years does not make it right. Too many animals have been hunted to extinction due to some stupid ass human greed. Do I have to put it into a Christian or church type of reason for u to see the light? God frowns upon this worthless killing and damns u to hell...there. |
you really are stupid.
there are no grocery stores there idiot and they do eat them. To not waste the horn by selling them is one of the only means of income that they have. There was never a problem with extinction due to native populations, this is the white man's turf. They actually respect and venerate the animals that they kill.
Other food sources??? Yes they should try farming in the arctic.
ing idiot.
also they are not indians.
technology? they do not even have roads. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
you really are stupid.
there are no grocery stores there idiot and they do eat them. To not waste the horn by selling them is one of the only means of income that they have. There was never a problem with extinction due to native populations, this is the white man's turf. They actually respect and venerate the animals that they kill.
Other food sources??? Yes they should try farming in the arctic.
ing idiot.
also they are not indians. |
Jackass |
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| elFreak |
tell me your solution so we can laugh at you then.
you obviously know next to nothing about this part of earth so it should be entertainingly stupid.
hint: open up a walmart won't work. |
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