Re-Blog to support Native hunting rights and fight against individuals who don’t understand our Indigenous cultures.
???? no? “”“culture”“” isn’t an excuse for violence against a peaceful species for absolutely no logical reason
Well it’s not really about culture so much as FEEDING THEMSELVES so
Hey, @romancatholic wanna guess how much a head of cabbage costs up in indigenous communities up north? Did you guess the price in your local store, likely around 50 cents or a dollar something? You’d be incredibly wrong.
$28. Fucking
$28 for a single head of cabbage. Baby formula can be upwards of 55 dollars. And when you’re that far up north, being vegan is a LUXURY that virtually no one can afford. They need PROTEIN. They need fuel to survive. And a whale carcass can provide WEEKS, if not a couple MONTHS of food for a community. That is an insane amount of time, and he did his community an incredible service by killing that whale.
Sorry you’d rather see people starve to death but fuck off?
Canada’s Native population are constantly given the shaft. This dude is a hero for catching that whale.
It’s worth mentioning here that the species of whale he killed was not endangered, and that the whale had a far better life than factory farmed animals/fish, and that if you want to make a difference to the lives of animals, there are SO many more effective ways you could go about that than go after very poor indigenous people who’ve been oppressed for centuries and have no other realistic way of feeding themselves.
Indigenous people also do not over hunt in the way that commercial whaling companies do. Because whale hunting is an important source of food in their community and they don’t want to hunt an animal into extinction, they actually practice conservation and their methods of hunting are less destructive and leave less of a footprint, in that they don’t upset the ecosystem the way commercial hunting does.
I believe many people hear about indigenous people hunting animals like whales and there is this knee-jerk of, “Whales are endangered! That’s unethical!” but really indigenous people are being given the shaft in these narratives because they’re being lumped in with these larger entities that do hunt species into extinction and do it for no reason other than profit. For the indigenous people who hunt these whales, they do it for survival and they do it in a way that won’t deplete important resources to them.
This boy fed his WHOLE VILLAGE for an ENTIRE WINTER.