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Inuit hunters hurt by EU ban

Inuit hunters hurt by EU ban. “Inuit hunters believe the ban has reduced the demand for seal products, which has in turn lowered the price they receive for pelts.” “A lot of sealers are losing their livelihoods, it's taken a lot away from me.” Said Inuit sealer Roger Flowers

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Inuit hunters hurt by EU ban

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  1. Inuit hunters hurt by EU ban • “Inuit hunters believe the ban has reduced the demand for seal products, which has in turn lowered the price they receive for pelts.” • “A lot of sealers are losing their livelihoods, it's taken a lot away from me.” Said Inuit sealer Roger Flowers • Pelt prices being paid to Inuit sealers has reduced from over $100 per pelt to $16 since the ban has been enforced. • Inuit owned plant in Rigolet has been forced to shut down due to lack of demand and low prices of seal pelts. • Rogers offered for those who think the seal hunt is cruel to join him in a hunt, “If they wanted to know more, some of them should come up and go seal hunting with me they'd really see what's going on.” http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/06/22/inuit-seal-labrador-622.html

  2. Inuit leaders take stand against EU "Inuit have been hunting seals and sustaining themselves for food, clothing, and trade for many generations. No objective and fair minded person can conclude that seals are under genuine conservation threat or that Inuit hunting activities are less humane than those practiced by hunting communities all over the world, including hunters in Europe. It is bitterly ironic that the EU, which seems entirely at home with promoting massive levels of agri-business and the raising and slaughtering of animals in highly industrialized conditions, seeks to preach some kind of selective elevated morality to Inuit. At best this is cultural bias, although it could be described in even harsher terms. It should also be more than a little disturbing to all the citizens of the EU that, despite advance warning by their own lawyers, its EU lawmakers registered no inhibitions about adopting laws that are legally defective.” -Mary Simon, National Inuit Leader Mary Simon http://www.itk.ca/media-centre/media-releases/inuit-sue-european-union-eu-overturn-seal-product-import-ban-defending-i

  3. Aqqaluk Lynge, President of Inuit Circumpolar Council • “. . .we must contend with animal rights extremists who fundamentally do not respect our way of life, and who use disinformation to further their cause at our expense.” -Aqqaluk Lynge http://www.itk.ca/media-centre/media-releases/inuit-sue-european-union-eu-overturn-seal-product-import-ban-defending-i

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