It's such a loaded question.
When the anti-seal hunt group—or animal rights groups in general—targets people.... They might not necessarily intend to target them, but when you're targeting people who live off the land, you're targeting indigenous peoples and you're targeting rural peoples. They don't seem to have any concept or regard for how humans are part of the ecosystem and how, since time immemorial, we have been part of the ecosystem. We're no better and we're no worse, but we're with it. We certainly have the steward component of it. They have no regard.
The EU ban in 2009, for example, put in the exemption for indigenous products, but indigenous peoples and indigenous communities said, “This does not work for us, because this drives the price so low for seal pelts, for example, that it doesn't make it financially feasible anymore.” They just went on their merry way and carried on with their tactics and their plans despite that.
It's very patronizing and racist, for sure.