Despite controversy and protests, the Fisheries Minister of Canada is currently promoting Canadian seal meat and fur in China. Is this meant to save the economy? To create jobs? To cement the two countries’ new trade relationship? . . . But why seals? And why now?
Here’s another article, not quite so recent: Seal meat becomes tasty delicacy in Canada after Europe bans imports. And finally, as if that weren’t enough, the Canadian Parliamentary Restaurant plans to feature seal meat on its menu for 2010.
People once believed that the vast bison herds of the Great Plains would be there forever. An infinite resource! Soon enough, our gun-happy ancestors proved that theory wrong. Didn’t stop them from shooting bison though! What next? How about the old-growth forests of British Columbia? An unlimited supply of timber! Well, even when they noticed that it wasn’t anywhere near unlimited, they were in no position (economically, philosophically, or otherwise) to stop chopping down trees! How about the Atlantic cod fisheries? Or more recently: the Pacific Coast salmon fisheries?
. . . Why seals? Here’s a better question: why not seals? How many wild populations do we have left that haven’t yet been translated, using doublespeak, into “natural resources”?
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