43 Replies to “Carrion Is The New News”

  5. 2008 sealing season opened one hour before sunrise yesterday (28 March). As of midnight, the score is 3 dead seals to 4 dead sealers.

  6. Maybe it was a self-sacrifice/suicide, what with the recent passing of the founder of Greenpeace.
    The animal kingdoms version of the grieving widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her departed husband.
    Save a cod, club a seal.

  7. For “Captain”, I do not have any connection with the sealing industry, but I spent a long time in Search and Rescue on the East Coast. Your comments betray your basic lack of judgement (among other things). Those who earn their living in small boats on the ocean have a difficult, dangerous life, and their families deserve better than comments such as yours.

  10. “Seriously? I hope it was clubbed.”
    Seriously, I hope it wasn’t, because then some idiot was doing it for fun, and not for profit*.
    Stop channeling Ann Coulter.
    *Now, THAT’S provocative!

  11. Where’s Heather Mills? Now that she’s free from McCartney restraining her from making a fool of herself while they were still married…Maybe she’ll go after Bono now and convince him to go for a photo op laying on a ice shelf with some puzzled seals…

  12. “Stop the SEAL HUNT in Saskatchewan”. Funniest facebook group. Make sure you read the captions on the photos.

  13. I could have written “I hope it suffered a slow agonizing death while crowds of weepy tourists looked on…”
    Which is what sounds like happened.
    Because nothing the natural system can impose upon its own can compare with the cruelty of brutish men.

  14. I was listening to CBC radio the other day and there was a story about a restaurant in Bejing with a peculiar menu.
    Suffice to say that the owners name was Ms. Dong. They had an interesting specialty that is claimed to help the libido.
    The most expensive thing on the menu was Canadian (a er…seal part) that cost $400 Canadian dollars. How many to buy a new truck for Kate?

  15. From the accompanying comments, enraged “white girl” from Seattle writes…“poor chester-probably ate a plastic bag from that blood-sucking walmart. these animals should be protected and harsh punishment should follow anyone who doesn’t leave them be.”
    Walmart killed Chester. It’s so obvious.

  17. Chester was yet another victim of fame and the excesses that come with it. A post mortem suggests cholesteral levels 30x that of a healthy seal. No amount of Omega 3 is gonna fix that.
    Oh, yeah, and he accidentally swallowed his crack pipe…

  18. Captain at March 29, 2008 1:14 PM
    Your comment was just about the most vile thing I have every seen.
    Must live in a dark world .

  19. They worry about seals when–and it’s considered indelicate to mention such a fact in polite company–in the US, 1.5 million and, in Canada, over 100 000 preborn human beings are killed by abortion each year.
    What a crazy, mixed up world we inhabit. In his book, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis described our moral upsidedownness very well: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.”

  20. Not enough skin there, to make a new sealskin parka, (my Dad used to make me hang mine outside when it started to stink- then the huskies dragged it off the clothesline and ate it)! Could probably get a pair of mukluks out of it, though…………….

  21. This just about qualifies as a story for one of those tabloids sold at the supermarket checkstand. “Living Creature Dies!! Scientists Amazed!!” I wonder if anybody will be amazed when I die, which I fully expect to someday.
    Oh, yeah, the seal may have died earlier than the average seal. The statistically-impaired (many of whom have been my co-workers and managers over the years) have a difficult time understanding that, if one or more data points is above the average, at least one must be below the average.

  22. in the 60’s when i was on the beach in Gibraltar(between jobs)i was sleeping under an old boat at the destroyer pens…and every day i would buy two cans of whale meat from charlie rodrigues the ship chandler of choice for starving redlegs.
    whale meat is horrible rubberyish rubbish…awful offal …disgusting…i’ve never forgotten how horrible it was but believe you me jack…i gobbled it up as caviar because i HAD to….it made the hallucinations and the pangs of desperation that were driving me towards general theft and visiting mayhem on old ladie’s purses stop..
    So…charlie the mini leviathan has none of my sympathy….none nada zilch…

  24. I’ve eaten seal meat.
    I cannot, in my deepest nightmare, imagine what something that eats seals must taste like.

  25. upper rh corner the picture looks like a smokestack–Probably a COAL or OIL belching capitalist bush enterprise DESIGNED to KILLLLLL!
    but, isn’t that a huge seal, compared to the ones they club?

  26. Kewel free bait!!…put splice a 19/0 hook through that dead sea-pig and troll it for Killers …yeeee hawww

  28. Why such amusement at the death of one of a very rare species (the Hawaiian Monk seal, only about 80-100 alive in Hawaii today)?
    Hey Phantom – here’s Pravda’s take on The Great Canadian Seal Slaughter –
    “…The argument that the seals are killed to help the recovery of cod is nonsense, since Atlantic Cod represents perhaps three per cent of the diet of harp seals (the species being culled)…”
    http://newsfromrussia.com/opinion/columnists/29-03-2008/104723-welcometocanada-0

  29. Silicon Valley Jim at March 29, 2008 5:54 PM
    When you stop and think about it Jim – fully half the people you know are below average!!!

  30. I’ve eaten seal meat.
    I cannot, in my deepest nightmare, imagine what something that eats seals must taste like.
    Kate
    – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    They taste like:
    Lobsters,Crabs and Shrimp.

  31. ‘e’s not dead ‘e’s just restin.
    ‘is feet are nailed to the sand.
    No they’re not.
    Monty Python

  34. Yawn, a dead seal on the beach. One of hundreds and sooner or later a storm on high tide will pull him back into the saltchuck where fish and crabs will eat like kings.
    They can sure stink in hot weather between storms though, but so do all the salmon carcasses on riverbanks here after they*ve had their romantic frolic. Just more great food for the eagles and gulls.
    Ain*t mother nature great? Stinky, but great. = TG

  35. Maybe it died of natural causes. Things like that do happen. Certainly wasn’t because it was being hunted for it’s fur… it’s to old for that. Sorry for stating the obvious.

  37. You are probably too thick to get it Anon but it was hypersensitive dipwads and their mutant morality we were making fun of…and you chomped down on the bait …reel another in Kate!!…they’re schooling today 😀

  38. WL: Well GODDAMN SON!!! You guys are WAAAY over my head then!!! Here I thought the picture of the dead animal on the front page, the title of the blog and the ‘macho-er’-than-thou attitude clearly pointed to a bunch of tough-ass, dim-witted conservatives. Instead I stumble on heightened comedic insight. It’s no wonder the Right has such a monopoly on comedy!

  40. Had you taken a moment to inspect your surroundings, you’d have noted the picture points to a news story.
    If you have similar problems in the future, ask directions before commenting.

  42. Nice to see this site, and my northern (conservative) neighbors taking care of the seal problem..by the way “I did kill a seal, and I liked it.”

  43. Phantom, there is a seal hunt for one reason, and one reason only:
    Lottery 10/42
    That is to say that the seal hunt is a make-work project for east-coast loafers so they can qualify for another year of other people’s money so they don’t have to get a real job – elsewhere.

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