Originally Posted by
Singlemalt
I no longer do but I spent my early carreer in the wild fur business. Those with enough grey in their hair remember the Berger commission in the'70's on whether the Canadian Government should allow oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea in the western Acrtic. At the time I followed it with great interest. I remember the testimony of a Dene elder and trapper. He sagely pointed out that his people had been harvesting muskrats for their fur from this area and tradeing them to Eurpoeans for over three hundred years. He urged us to considered the value of those same renewable muskrats for the next 300 years as over that time they were worth more than the value of the non-renewable projected oil reserves.
Where is the real value, plunder the enviornment for oil for fuel and nylon coats for a few decades or leave it in its natural state and harvest the abundance of fur for centuries to come?
A really excellent point! The humane harvesting of animals for a purpose, or the same animals killed (and perhaps exterminated) for short(er) term gain. Something to consider, indeed.
Cheers,
Cameron
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. John Cage
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