XPost: can.politics, ont.politics   
   From: weasel@stew.yum   
      
   On 4/1/2014 5:14 PM, {~_~} Раиса wrote:   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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?   
      
   Kewen, I think these people know who to blame and what the solutions   
   are.  The following interview will clear up a lot of your condescending   
   and willful ignorance.  Note that Jesse places specific blame on   
   activists for getting in the way of eating healthy and affordable   
   country foods:   
      
   http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/03/28/report-finds-nun   
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