Quote Originally Posted by skauwt View Post
i think this is a great idea
the Yupik and Inuit people are going to hunt seals whether the western countrys ban it or not so it makes perfect sense for them to use this by-product of there food hunting techniques and sell it to a country that will actually cherish the quality and use the material rather than go to waste

i still don't get why there's all the fuss with seals considering we eat animals that have been treated far worse than a some seals
It is strange, isn't it? Those who successfully protested the harvesting of "baby seals" did not next truck off to an abattoir to protest the hammer-blows to cows, or the traditional neck-wring for poultry or the in-the-hold death by suffocation of fish.

There's nane sae weird as folk.

Seals continue to be harvested in northern Canada for food, pelts and as a means to keep the seal population down and the fish population healthy. Nothing is wasted by the Inuit people. If there is no market for skins outwith Canada as many as possible will still be used for local clothing, everyone in the country will have a sealskin sporran (turn green, the rest of you) and whatever is left will be air-dried and burned as fuel.

Rex