Reply #83: No the anti-fur industry is putting them out of business [View All]

I've never known a trapper who had problems selling his pelts. My "rage" as you call it is directed at the right group.

"We submit that the IFAW's actions have played a major role in the devastation of Inuit communities through the destruction of one of the few environmentally and ecnomically sustainable options Inuit have in the Arctic - the harvesting of seals.

Despite an exemption being made for Iniut, after the importation of seal products was banned by the EU in 1983, the entire seal market collapsed. After the collapse of the seal market, suicide rates in Inuit communities increased by an average of 400 %."

(400% suicide rate increase was not the fault of commercial skinners)


http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Movements/IFAW/wh-th-if.htm