XPost: can.politics, ont.politics   
   From: {~_~}@nyet.ca   
      
   On 4/1/2014 4:45 PM, Chom Noamsky wrote:   
   > Environmentalists, animal rights activists and celebrities continue to   
   > make it harder and harder for Inuit to be food secure.  A half-rotten   
   > cabbage is $28 in Iqaluit, a carton of milk $10... shipping costs are   
   > very dear in the Arctic.  It's time for urban shut-ins who never get   
   > outside a city boundary to start thinking about the negative effects   
   > they are having on these people:   
   >   
   > Aglukkaq Says Activists Hurt Inuit Ability To Feed Families   
   >   
   > A federal cabinet minister slammed activist groups who she says   
   > interfere in Inuit traditions, blaming them for food security problems   
   > in the North.   
   >   
      
      
   She's full of shit.  Environmentalists have been fighting to protect the   
   territory that the Inuit depend on for food.   
   It's HER government - the Harper Cons one - that's is planning oil   
   drilling in their territories and in their oceans.   
      
   The price of food has always been high for those who prefer to live in   
   remote areas of inclement weather.  This   
   hasn't changed for those who decided it was easier to go to the local   
   grocery store than to go out into the cold to hunt or to fish.   
      
   What this is really about is the SEAL HUNT that the Harper government   
   wants re-started and has failed in his appeals to the EU ban   
   on seal products from Canada.  The Inuit are not stopped from hunting   
   seal for their own food; they are stopped from hunting seal   
   for pelts that they used to sell to other countries for profit.   
      
   Both Aglukkaq and Harper are using the Inuit to disparage the   
   environmentalists who are also their enemy in oil exploration and   
   drilling.  Using 'the poor Inuit' as a tool for their bullshit doesn't   
   make the bullshit smell any better.  And the Inuit are complicit   
   in this campaign of misinfomation - they want to kill seals for pelts   
   and be able to afford their '$28 head of cabbage' from the profits of   
   the kills.   
      
   Anyone else out there buying into this campaign of bullshit?   
      
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