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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
That's untrue for some of us.
As a vegetarian (I don't eat the ugly animals either) I am not going to say that I am outright against a seal hunt. I understand the cultural importance to the seal hunt to the Inuit and the desire for the Newfoundland people to survive and live off the sea in any way possible. As a utilitarianist, it's tough. To paraphrase Star Trek, sometimes the needs of the people outweigh the needs of the animals.
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Yet the sharks are being decimated all over the world and very few people give a damn, while cute seals and whales get the money into the environmental groups.
Greenpeace knows what brings them the money, its not sharks, its cute animals, whether you can admit that or not.
As someone from Iceland can attest to if we didn't have our fishing industry our country would not exist.