7 thoughts on “Save (most of) the whales: Greenpeace now supports Inuit hunting, but Native groups still wary”
” in a dramatic 90-minute struggle that saw explosions, a flurry of harpoon thrusts and the loss of one of the boats, the 60-metre-long animal was brought to heel.”
That sounds like something out of that fucking Monster Hunter game I used to play until I quit playing out of disgust for what I was actually doing.
“Across Nunavut, the group is not only blamed for kneecapping one of the region’s only sources of income, but for driving once-proud hunters to welfare dependency and suicide.”
This will sound absolutely brutal, but I will be perfectly happy for groups that “need” to carry out atrocities like the one above to simply die out.
Certainly a pregnant animal should be spared, in today’s world of wildlife pressed to the limit. I hear hunting being a cultural tradition a lot, but the world isn’t the same place anymore, and people are going to have to modify their traditions for the modern world, or else face them dying out along with the wildlife. I don’t understand Greenpeace lately.
The Greenpeace organization was debauched a long time ago. Read Paul Watson’s views on that subject. If any one is thinking of contributing to Greenpeace, it ought to go to Sea Shepherd instead.
With dwindling animal population numbers, does it make a difference who is killing them? No. Certainly killing a pregnant animal is a terrible waste and short-sighted – hunters are hunting animals out of existence and cannot see it. If indigenous people and others want to justify hunting as a cultural tradition, then I agree with one of the commenters to the article that said they should go back to traditional cultural method of hunting – not speed boats and high tech equipment.
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” in a dramatic 90-minute struggle that saw explosions, a flurry of harpoon thrusts and the loss of one of the boats, the 60-metre-long animal was brought to heel.”
That sounds like something out of that fucking Monster Hunter game I used to play until I quit playing out of disgust for what I was actually doing.
“Across Nunavut, the group is not only blamed for kneecapping one of the region’s only sources of income, but for driving once-proud hunters to welfare dependency and suicide.”
This will sound absolutely brutal, but I will be perfectly happy for groups that “need” to carry out atrocities like the one above to simply die out.
…, the sooner the better.
Certainly a pregnant animal should be spared, in today’s world of wildlife pressed to the limit. I hear hunting being a cultural tradition a lot, but the world isn’t the same place anymore, and people are going to have to modify their traditions for the modern world, or else face them dying out along with the wildlife. I don’t understand Greenpeace lately.
I am sickened and saddened beyond words….
The Greenpeace organization was debauched a long time ago. Read Paul Watson’s views on that subject. If any one is thinking of contributing to Greenpeace, it ought to go to Sea Shepherd instead.
True, this is just one more reason why.
With dwindling animal population numbers, does it make a difference who is killing them? No. Certainly killing a pregnant animal is a terrible waste and short-sighted – hunters are hunting animals out of existence and cannot see it. If indigenous people and others want to justify hunting as a cultural tradition, then I agree with one of the commenters to the article that said they should go back to traditional cultural method of hunting – not speed boats and high tech equipment.