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If you had to put up with neighbours like we have you'd go out and club helpless baby animals too.

unshavenyak wrote:

This thread is non-sensical. There are many, many more offences against nature to go after (e.g. Monsanto!) than seal hunters.

Good point, but Monsanto is a US company and I'm in the mood to harass Canadians. The most immoral Canadian company that springs to mind is Cirque du Soleil.

Tallgeese wrote:

unshavenyak wrote:

This thread is non-sensical. There are many, many more offences against nature to go after (e.g. Monsanto!) than seal hunters.

Please try harder than "there are problems that aren't the problem you named, why care about the problem you named".

Okay, how about Harp seals are not an endangered species and a substantial amount of hunting is done by the First Nations people residing in the Nunavut territories or heavily regulated marine harvesters (who are also often First Nations people). Unlike other hunting industries (see: Japanese whaling, Chinese and sharks) very little of the animal is wasted. Moreover, also unlike other industries, the Canadian Seal Hunting industry is regulated by the Royal Commission of Seals and Sealing in Canada with oversight from the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

I also find the PETA 2 and latest wave of anti-seal hunting campaigns highly unsavoury; it reeks of Occidental demonisation of the Other, especially due to the animal in question being a Charismatic Animal.

Witness the report by the WWF in 2005 with respect to sealing in Canada:

"Perception of the seal hunt seems to be based largely on emotion, and on visual images that are often difficult even for experienced observers to interpret with certainty. While a hakapik strike on the skull of a seal appears brutal, it is humane if it achieves rapid, irreversible loss of consciousness leading to death"

In short, I reiterate that this is non-sensical.

Last edited by unshavenyak (2009-11-08 3:49 am)

I really can't seem to manage any outrage over a group of hardworking men in a dangerous profession trying to provide for their families through an ecologically sound hunt just because the animals they're hunting are cute when they're babies.