How Europe’s ban on seal products turned frontier communities into pariahs
In the 1970s, a sustained campaign convinced much of the world that protesters were saving cuddly seals from murderous killers near the Arctic Circle. Before long, people outside the region became accustomed to seeing images of hunters with clubs, looming over a fluffy white-harp seal pups. The resu...
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The Conversation
2021
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| Online Access: | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/e9ff236c-498b-43f1-b7d5-2edf6a188a67 https://theconversation.com/how-europes-ban-on-seal-products-turned-frontier-communities-into-pariahs-161730 |
| Summary: | In the 1970s, a sustained campaign convinced much of the world that protesters were saving cuddly seals from murderous killers near the Arctic Circle. Before long, people outside the region became accustomed to seeing images of hunters with clubs, looming over a fluffy white-harp seal pups. The result was the EU import ban which lumps commercial and subsistence hunting by non-Indigenous peoples together. As this article argues, the anti-sealing cause has left deep wounds in Canada and the human costs ensure to this day. |
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