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Skriven 2012-05-18 23:28:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
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The animal rights activists and southern social "scientists" are
pissing me off again!

From today's news:

By Laura Payton, CBC News North

Nunavut Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq slammed activist groups who
interfere in Inuit traditions, blaming them today for food security
problems in the North, and called a UN official "ill-informed" and
"a bit patronizing."

Aglukkaq, who's from Gjoa Haven, a hamlet in Nunavut, met with a UN
food security official on Wednesday, but said he didn't understand
the real problems faced by the Inuit. She said environmentalists and
activists were the problem behind any food insecurity.

"He's ill-informed. I found it a bit patronizing and just another
academic studying us from afar who's going to make comments about
the challenges that we have," Aglukkaq said following her meeting
with Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to
food.

Food security, she said, is "about the fights that we have with
groups like the European Union that want to stop the seal hunt
andr the Pew Foundation who wants to put a moratorium on fishing
and the polar bear activists."

"We continue to live off the land, eat the seal meat, eat the polar
bear meat. And the collective implications of environmentalists,
activists, whether it be the fish plus the seal plus the bear,
leaves us Inuit and Aboriginal people of Canada's Arctic with very
little to eat."

"It's about fighting environmentalists that try and put a stop to
our way of life, our way of life and hunting, to provide for our
families," Aglukkaq said.

"So it was important that De Schutter understood from the
circumpolar region the implications of the activist groups that are
outside of Canada that try and stop these traditions and the impact
it has on Inuit people in the circumpolar region."

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Foreign Affairs Minister John
Baird also criticized De Schutter for spending time in a rich
country rather than in one where people are starving.

The Pew organization called for a moratorium on commercial fishing
until there's an international agreement on how to manage the ocean
that's opened up as permanent sea ice melts.

Aglukkaq wouldn't say whether she agreed with De Schutter's
conclusion that some Canadians have trouble affording or accessing
food. "I don't know how he can make a conclusion. He's not even set
foot in my region. Again, I say, you know, he's another academic who
is studying our way of life from afar," she said.

Aglukkaq said she started the meeting by showing De Schutter a map
of Canada. "We don't have farms in Canada's Arctic because it's the
Arctic and that should be obvious, one would assume."

Mary Simon, head of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national
organization representing the Inuit also took aim at the European
Union over its seal products ban, which she said affected
northerners in a "very negative way."

Cheers

YK Jim


... I have no use for Vegans and they have no use for me either.

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