Okay, I'll admit that I'm wading into waters that I don't understand very well, or as Nufy rightly points out I haven't researched extensively.
So, instead of trying to come off like a know it all, as a discussion point I would say this... Sure, we subsidize most industries. But is the ratio of cash spent to return to the economy normally as slanted as in the seal industry? By all accounts I can find, the sealing industry seems to be of the order of 5-10 million dollars. The amount of money being spent in subsidies seems to be the same or greater. Things like farming and oil and gas must have impacts on the economy in billions of dollars. Are we subsidizing them at the same amount or greater as we do with the seal industry? Seems unlikely.
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