The Hunt has Begun
"At daylight this morning, the first baby seal was killed for her fur on Canadian ice. It was heartbreaking to watch, but bearing witness to this cruelty -- and exposing it to the world -- is essential if we are finally to end this slaughter."
Rebecca Aldwirth's Journal
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posted by Amethyst Rising at 8:49 AM
8 Comments:
I think that if the only reason they are being killed is for their skins, in this day and age it is unneccessary...Plenty of manmade materials around...I don't think killing animals for anything other than food is pardonable, and there are plenty of non-animal ways to get plenty of protein and amino acids without killing animals...
I also think that if is necessary for some other reason, there are more humane ways of doing it...
But that is just my opinion...
In our area, I do condone hunting, especially deer hunting, because when it was outlawed, the deer population outgrew the available food and many died of starvation and diseases... Clubbing is just not a humane way of killing animals...
And.....since restrictions were placed on the seal hunt after the first celebrity eruption (Bardot), the cod population has been eradicated - primarily by seals -and along with it the income of the fishermen who made their living fishing for cod. Entire villages have been reduced to poverty.
Celebrities too often have too little information on the causes they espouse.
I agree with Amethyst, to a point. I feel that it can and should continue as it had gone for a long time. But good Lord, do they have to use baseball bats? It is governmentally controlled there, if I'm not too mistaken, however it could definitely use a little upgrade in the way they go about it.
Seals are not only used for fur. There is meat and oil and even the male reporductive organs are used for goodness sake.
Seal meat and oil is rich in omega 3 and 6. The only complaint I have about the hunt is that the other products are not promoted as much as they should be.
All those cute white coat seals we see on all the protest posters have not been legally hunted since 1987.
Most of the seals are shot not clubbed, even if they are clubbed it's a lot nicer then the way slaughter house animals die. If they were raised on farms do you think any one would really care? If you think what happenes on the Ice floes is bad make a trip to a slaughter house.
They're not at risk, pretty well everything is used, and the way they are killed is not that different then the way farm animals meet their ends.... so what makes a seal so special?
Sure many of the seals are young when they are hunted, but they have to be independent from their parents so they are not really "babies." A good number of the seals are old enough to be grand parents.
Alaska has a seal hunt as well but I guess PETA and the American humane society just like to forget that.
I also have to wonder about people who have opinions but are afraid to sign their name to them, Anonymous....
i don't really know enough about this issue to leave an educated comment, but i would like to add that it is more thanl ikely the fisherman causing the problem with the codd population and not the seals. When nature is left to her own devices she keeps the population of all animals in check. If those fishermen were only fishing to feed there families there wouldn't be a problem, but there not.
As far as slaughter houses i have worked in a chicken slaughter house and toured a beef one. The killing is so fast the animals never know what hit them. Another comment I would like to make about slaughter houses is "nothing" is wasted. And I mean absolutely nothing. Even when they bring hoses is and wash the blood and meat off of the machinery (which happens a couple times a day). Everything washed off of the floors and the machinery goes down drains and into a "run off" where they filter everything out and send it off the a place that makes dog food.
Thanks for the info there Tony. I learned quite a bit. I'm glad they don't just go'ta whackin' on them like PETA likes to portray it.
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