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another musician/celebrity, another cause....
Recently Jimmy Buffet commented that his line of restaurants are now boycotting Canadian seafood because of the seal hunt.
I wonder Mr. Buffet is aware of the current overpopulation of harp seals on the eastern coast of Canada and the damage that they are inflicting on the fishery in conjunction with the many international fleets off our banks? I was also wondering if he considered that if more people take part in the boycott, it will destroy an already fragile east coast economy were many people already live close to the poverty line and depend on eco-related opportunities to make ends meet.
I also wonder as to Mr. Buffet's education on this issue. To speak out and act as he has, I sure hope he has looked closely at the problem and the economic and environmental negatives that would harm the eastern fishery and environment if this hunt were to totally cease.
Taking a stand is admirable. Taking an uneducated stand that ill affects the economy, a good percentage of the population and the environmental balance of an entire region is both irresponsible, and rather ignorant.
Perhaps instead of enacting a boycott, Mr. Buffet could have offered some suggestions as to how to both control an out of control population of animals, and how to put food on the tables of the families on the east coast who rely on the seal hunt to make it through the year. Or perhaps, he could have just shut his cake-hole and continued to make money off an already overharvested sea with his chain of seafood restaurants.
My point basically is, is anyone else sick of these morons speaking out about issues that they really have no grasp on?
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I'm of two minds about this issue. One the one hand, they feel they have the right to speak out for or against any number of issues as a matter of some civic duty. But we validate their behavior by paying them any attention.
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Re: Re: another musician/celebrity, another cause....
I have no problem with people speaking out, and I understand how one could want to use their celebrity status to make a point. It just seems that so often these people have their heads so far up their own asses that they have no idea what they are talking about and even less regard for the responsibility or consequences of their actions.
__________________ "I made a typo bif deal" - JacopeX
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Over simplification of issues seems to be the current trend, even in politics... Stupid idiots almost never realize something just isn't that black and white.
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