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Who is it giving the Inuit a pass? Why do they have a say in it? Someone shows up thousands of years after the fact and starts telling the Inuit what they can a
by PostOnce 6y ago
Who is it giving the Inuit a pass? Why do they have a say in it? Someone shows up thousands of years after the fact and starts telling the Inuit what they can and can't eat? I don't see that as a defensible position to hold. The Inuit should be able to eat their own whales if they want to.
- User23 6y agoThe Japanese are indigenous to Japan and have been hunting whales for a thousand years and maybe over ten thousand[1] so I guess we don’t get to tell them what they can and can’t eat either. [1] https://japanwhaling.weebly.com/history.html https://japanwhaling.weebly.com/history.html
- blacksmith_tb 6y agoAside from the difference in population between the Japanese and the Inuit, the Japanese are also increasingly disinterested in eating whale meat [1][2]. It appears to be an aspect of their culture which is on the wane (in effect they're telling themselves what to eat), so international pressure on them to stop doesn't strike me as outrageously insensitive. 1: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/japanese-barely-eat-whale-whaling-big-deal/ https://www.wired.com/2015/12/japanese-barely-eat-whale-whal... 2: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/future-whale-meat-consumption-japan/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/future...
- iancmceachern 6y agoAnd its actually very high in mercury and cannot be eaten often by young people and women of childbearing age, like other high mercury fish.
- mobilefriendly 6y agoOf course, the Ainu are indigenous to Hokkaido https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people