Tradition 'snatched away': Labrador Inuit struggle with caribou hunting ban

tokguy said:
About 2 months ago I reviewed a post on here, concerning Meat utilization. I was surprised and disgusted at the amount of members on here who " Cut out the loin and feed the rest to the dogs "
What the logic behind this being correct is... I have no idea.
Because Native's don't require tags...they are an easy target?
Or; perhaps " I paid for the tag...it's my business what I do with it "
No-one seems bothered by this concept of 90 % of the carcass is dogfood...but as soon as the people being scrutinized are Native... oh the horror!
And no; I didn't hit CAPS LOCK and 'go off' concerning the wasted meat. Trying to not sweat the petty stuff...or is that pet the sweaty stuff?
And yeah it seems like a shame...the topic of the original post. But such Diversity also includes WASP dyckheads too.
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Care to post up that thread? I don't remember reading that and I'd have to question there were mentions of several members who "cut out the loin and feed the rest to the dogs". If there were, they'd get attacked from all sides. I've never read on here where anyone gets away with wasting edible game meat.
 
With this kind of attitude:
"they're going to be gone anyway, so why not let us enjoy a bit of caribou meat while we still can?"

This kind of attitude makes me want to vomit. Just let them wipe-out the herds completely and put an end to it...

Then they'll have to buy their meat from a supermarket like most of Canada does.
 
The mindset for many of the natives is .......if today's needs are met,tomorrow will look after itself..................And then there were none.
 
"The Taimyr herd of migrating tundra reindeer (R.t. sibiricus) in Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world,[4][5] with numbers varying between 400,000 and 1,000,000. The second largest is the migratory woodland caribou (R.t. caribou) George River herd in Canada, with variations between 28,000 and 385,000"

That is a quote from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer

Someone with the latest facts and figures and sources needs to edit this article. The world needs to know!

EDIT: Never mind, I editing the Wikipedia article myself to reflect the actual facts as follows:
" What was the second largest herd is the migratory woodland caribou (R.t. caribou) George River herd in Canada, with former variations between 28,000 and 385,000. Unfortunately, as of January 2018, there are fewer than 9,000 animals estimated to be left in the George River herd as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation."
 
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tigrr said:
In 2000 I talked with people who would harvest 20 caribou to feed the family and their dogs. And we wonder where the caribou went. Add the fact that hunters all were allowed to shoot 2 each time. An acquaintance used to go up twice and bring 4 home each year. The outfitter had the tags and didn't want them to go to waste.
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when i guided in northern quebec it was 8 caribous a year you can get and more if you lived in schefferville area.

i got 4 years ... as i didnt hunt during the winter ...
 
K-C said:
With this kind of attitude:
"they're going to be gone anyway, so why not let us enjoy a bit of caribou meat while we still can?"

This kind of attitude makes me want to vomit. Just let them wipe-out the herds completely and put an end to it...

Then they'll have to buy their meat from a supermarket like most of Canada does.
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not so when the caribou herd is depleted they will start to BEG to the federal gov. they will invent a clause if it doesn't exist ..it's a no win situation .
 
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