As with everything else, culture and context must be taken into account when dealing with Indigenous communities, no matter how important you think your cause is. And while Ive met my share of gentle vegans who are willing to listen, there are also these eager crusaders of animal rights that seem to sweep across the land to belittle and humiliate someone who choose to eat meat. Please understand, the Sami elder Atja, says. Our climate up here, as you can see, is neither conducive to Christianity or Vegan Evangelism. She places her hands together, kept warm in well-made seal skin mittens, and continues to talk. We have heard some of your groups morality already, this epic battle between the grain eaters and the meat eaters. For us, as you can see these lands that we have lived on since the world began, these lands will not support most of the vegetation you suggest; the soil is too thin, the permafrost under it too hard and our seasons too brutal. Our people are a reindeer people: What is good for the reindeer is good for us as our saying goes. We have lived this way since the Sun, our Mother, gave birth to us, and later, gave us half of the worlds reindeer so that they could be tamed. We use every part of the reindeer for survival. You may call it harsh, we call it home. And we call the treatment of our animals, fair, since we interact with them constantly with our own hands. She shakes her head, if you think we are using our climate or our history here as an excuse for murder, then you misunderstand. We are not what you would call colonized or civilized into your ways. We live in a circle. The reindeer die and we consume their flesh and when we die, they consume our bones. rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/vegan-challenge/2014/04/indigenous-fight-against-colonial-veganism
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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