Inuit Whalers Lose Right to Traditional Food Source

This news article from Cultural Survival.org is about an attempt to stripe the Inuit people of their rights to whaling, which makes up half of their food source. Japan, who has a part in the International Whaling Commision (IWC) suggested that movement at an annual meeting, after they were denied the request to lift their ban to whaling. This movement can be considered as a political game, and an inconsiderate request because they failed to recognize that ingidenous people such as the Inuits, actually depend on whales for subsistence rather than for commercial sales. It is also unfair because the Inuit people are not recognized in the IWC, therefore, they cannot be part of voting process.

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/news/article/inuit-whalers-lose-right-traditional-food-source