Seal meat?

There is a lot of hubbub as of late regarding the piece of seal flesh Canada's governor General ate in Nunavut.

Animal rights activists are enraged, local sealers are thrilled and the rest of the world is for some reason paying attention.

I understand the position that bludgeoning a seal or any other animal with a blunt club is a barbaric act (barbaric as in prehistoric for the use of tools only, not for the result of providing food for one's community), I get how that looks. But in this day and age, in a remote place in the Arctic, why is the global, teary eyed community, so enraged over the hunt which has evolved to be much like the hunt for Elk, Caribou, Moose or Whale... wait, bad example!

Unfortunately for people in the North there is no way to raise beef or Chicken viably, the climate, availability of feed (hay, grain, etc...), and safe pasture land is non-existant. God bless these people who subsist on the land on a diet of local, free range creatures.

How funny that here in the South the same people that demand an Organic diet, unprocessed, un-medicated or hormoned food are the same people calling the GG's act disgusting.

Baby seals are killed for their pelts, that might seem wrong to all but the people who make a living selling the pelts. But in this case the GG was participating in a community tradition that uses all parts of the seal. The seal was shot, not tied to a steel chair, waterboarded; nipples tied to a car battery.

Good for our Governor General for recognizing a people's right to eat and live off the land. If you had seen the meat that was on grocery store shelves at the local "NothMart" in Rankin Inlet that sells for more than triple what we pay anywhere else, I bet fishing and hunting for your food would look real good.

Oh and as for an all-vegetable diet? Try growing a head of lettuce in the frozen Arctic Tundra.