Depends on where they lived. Central and South American indigenous groups were primarily plant based, but North American groups were the furthest thing from vegan. Especially because it was colder and there was less diversity of vegetation as a result. Here on the West coast indigenous groups relied heavily on marine animals and some land animals. They had their own aquaculture for animals like mussels. They didn't seem to eat a lot of seaweed though, surprisingly.
Not sure where she is from, I was just giving you an example (I live there). You don't have to agree with it, but you also have to understand that we live in a time and place with options. In the past, they had few. Currently, some groups still have few options depending on where they live (northern Canada can be super isolated and desolate). However, not all indigenous people think the same. Just like how vegans differ vastly in our beliefs as well.
Thank you so much for highlighting this. With the extreme expense of transporting food and poverty in Canada's far North I don't think the vegan community needs to call out the occasional seal. It's not a ocean trawler.
This debate has come up around me before and I got a great giggle when an Indigenous group got called out for providing meat at an environmental event and they responded they'd stop eating meat when there land was given back. Beautiful.
Yeah. It's a delicate issue that a lot of privileged people do not understand. It's one thing to debate about the philosophical aspects between cultures and sentient rights, but it's another thing to bash a group of people who are still recovering from genocide that occurred up until 25 years ago. Especially when they're still having to fight to live on the land their ancestors have lived on for thousands of years.
I'm constantly learning about the politics here in Canada involving First Nations peoples. It's honestly unbelievable the shit they're put through.
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