Inuit call for rethink of seal-ban proposal

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Globe and Mail-Tue Oct 31, 2006

Canadian Press

ST. JOHN'S -- A council representing Inuit from Canada, Russia, Alaska and
Greenland has warned European legislators that a renewed push to ban seal
products could devastate native communities.

Some members of the European Parliament say the annual seal hunt in Canada is
cruel and unsustainable and they've passed a nonbinding declaration calling for
a ban on imports of seal products. It will be up to the European Commission to
determine whether it becomes law.

Meanwhile, the German parliament unanimously endorsed an import ban the day
after the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents 150,000 Inuit living in
the Arctic, sent a letter asking legislators to rethink their position.

"The proposed legislation would hurt our Inuit economy, our Inuit culture, and
our Inuit spirituality in unimaginable ways," council chairwoman Patricia
Cochran said in a letter dated Oct. 18.

The letter goes on to say the European decision to exempt Inuit products from
the proposed seal product ban simply won't work.

The 1983 European ban on products produced from young, whitecoat harp seals
wreaked havoc on self-sufficient Inuit, she noted in the letter, sent to German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner
Markos Kyprianou.

She invited legislators to visit before proceeding.

"Inuit base their hunt, all hunts, on the principle of sustainable use, not on
the principle of subjective 'public decency' as some European governments seem
to be doing," she wrote.

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A council representing Inuit from Canada, Russia, Alaska and
Greenland has warned European legislators that a renewed push to ban seal products could devastate native communities.

Et que les phoques soient dévastés, ça ne pose pas problème !!

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ce dont ils ne parlent pas c'est qu'ils tuent des phoques par pour leur propre survie, mais pour la vente car ils vendent leurs peaux eux aussi !
Je me rappelle avoir lu un article il y a quelques années à l'effet qu'ils avaient conclu un accord avec la Chine...

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Bien sûr ! Mais ils mettent ça dans le même sac que celui de la subsistance.