Michaëlle's blood-thirsty ways

[frandroid]

As a culturally sensitive vegan, I would approve of Michaëlle Jean's seal eating and hunting, if only she wasn't conflating inuit seal hunting with east coast seal hunting... So not the same thing.

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[frandroid.livejournal.com]

So just to confirm here... Are you advocating that:

1) Inuit should eat a vegan diet, no ifs or buts, and thus;
2) if that's too onerous or somehow undoable in the Artic, that Inuit should leave the Arctic and move south in order to live a vegan lifestyle?

[theoria.livejournal.com]

No, everyone should be a vegan. Talking about the Inuit in particular is a diversion.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

They're not a distraction when the whole point of this subthread is your assertion that no one needs to live there, which you still haven't accounted for in a clear way. You really lost me there, but I'm still giving you the benefit of the doubt.

[theoria.livejournal.com]

No one needs to live anywhere. There is no necessary, organic connection between any individual human and its environment. The only way you can maintain such a claim is it you are racist: "Primitive people, like the Inuit, are naturally in tune with their environment..." And, again, the particular case of people living in the Arctic - or anywhere else - is a distraction from the real issue: people should not use animals instrumentally just as they should not use one another instrumentally.