Not only has Ellen DeGeneres reportedly got her wife Portia de Rossi so totally fed up with her bulling and alcohol abuse that she is ready to split, but the day time talk show host apparently has the Inuit communities of Canada near revolt. They are upset with her Oscar selfie, which was supposed to raise money anti-seal organizations. The indigenous Inuits are protesting the Queen of Nice via Twitter, claiming that the animals are humanly killed and treated with respect in their aboriginal communities.
When Ellen DeGeneres raised $1.5 million to curb seal hunting with her high profile Oscar selfie, she in no way could have envisioned the "sealfie" backlash that would come.
Ellen's show website call the seal hunt "the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals," but for the countless natives that depend on seal meat to live in wasteland that in Canada, that sounds insensitive at best and like hate speech at worst.
Natives like 26-year-old of Rankin Inlet, Sandi Vincent decided to push back against Ellen and her senseless oppression(via Canoe.ca):
"The meat feeds families, which is important to an area where many households have identified that they face issues of food insecurity.
"In Inuit culture, it is believed seals and other animals have souls and offer themselves to you. Humanely and with gratitude we accepted this gift.
"My uncle placed some snow in the seals mouth when it was dead, so its soul would not be thirsty. If there is one word to describe seal hunting, I would suggest respectful."
Arnaquq-Baril made a less passionate, but no less affective, appeal on Ellen's Facebook, explaining the socio-economic role that seal hunting still plays in some communities today (via Daily Mail):
'Thanks for your wonderful career, it is an inspiration to many women, the LGBT community, and anyone who's had to fight for survival and fair treatment.
We as Inuit are among them, and I hope you will take your responsibility to be informed on this issue seriously.
'The days of a free-for-all unregulated seal hunt endangering the population (which Inuit never took part in anyway) are long gone.
'Fighting against commercial seal hunting is no longer relevant in today's society, but it brings animal rights groups a lot of money, while ensuring the poorest populations in North America are even poorer.'
Yeah Ellen...no one is complaining about what you eat.
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