CTV:
On Friday, a seal hunter fired a rifle into the air shortly after three helicopters carrying anti-sealing activists and photographers landed near a sealing boat.
A group of six sealers aboard the boat began yelling at the dozen or so observers, some of whom were members of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
The protesters, who are allowed to observe the hunt but must�keep�at least 10 metres from the sealers, were then approached by a least one sealer who was swinging a gaff, a 30-centimetre stick with a hook.
I can’t blame the sealers for fighting back. The seal hunt is no more or less inhumane than any other species harvest – wild or domestic, or the ways that seals die in the wild.
This type of media coverage can’t get much better for the activist organizers. The ultimate hypocrisy is that the organizations the protesters represent are the largest beneficiaries of all – whatever the worth of a seal’s fur, it’s dwarfed by its value as an animal rights fund raiser. At the Humane Society of the United States ($85 million in assets), along with other members of the animal rights scam industry, they’ll be raising a glass of seal blood today to toast their good fortune.
I don’t have a problem with seals being killed but I’m not too keen on the methods. If the profit margin is so low they can’t afford to use a bullet instead of a club they should probably find work elsewhere (I doubt a bullet hole in the head would destroy much fur).
And why baby seals? Are they just easier to catch?
I believe in PC terms this is known as “animal lookism:” where one is concerned about the cutesy animals but less inclined to do anything about the ones that aren’t cutesy.
The animal rights industry, along with most other environmental organizations, is a very lucrative complex cynically devised by entrepreneurial lawyers to bilk a frightened and guilty public, and the governments influenced by votes, into providing huge sums of money to further their snake-oil aims. When not enough loot can be garnered through drafting real-estate deals, wills, divorces (etc., etc.) due to an overabundance of attorneys all scrambling to be as well paid as they think they deserve, turning environmentalism into a sacrament of the secular religion guarantees keeping Gaia’s offering plates full for these self-styled priests.
It’s only the young seals that have fur. And bullets do damage pelts.
Green Party agenda:
http://www.felinerescue.net/Animal_rights.htm
Gladstone (1809-98) was thought dotty when he wished to rescue the ladies of the night.
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/gladwom.htm
shots in protest
There is a whole anti-seal hunting industry out there with big bucks and they see joy every hunting season. They need it to sustain their movement….
The Seal Hunt Reduces Global Warming. See:
http://alsocanadian.blogspot.com/2005/04/seal-hunt-reduces-global-warming_01.html
Also, the sealers have to use clubs – they can’t get their firearms registered!
Only seals that are older than 2 weeks are hunted. This is beyond the period when the seal loses its white coat. The so-called “baby” seals or “white coats” were once hunted. That practice was discontinued 30 years ago, an issue which most people here still disagree with. Clubbing an animal is actually a more humane way of causing death, check with any vet on that one. Bullets are normally used on seals that are not easily accessible. When dead, the animal may appear to be squirming, this is an electrochemical action. Seals are not skinned alive. The seal hunt has been prosecuted by Newfoundlanders for over 200 years, with the hunt having become a natural part of the herds population control. Seals have been hunted by Innu and Innuit for thousands of years. How many years did it take,the bison herds to be nearly wiped of the planet, Less than 30, I believe. The income from the hunt has always and continues to be an integral part of the fishermans annual income. It also appears the seal hunt has become an integral part of the protesters income.
Sea Shephard terrorist
The hidden dark side of these groups needs to have some light….