Green peace luvs the seal hunt ... it's a big money campaign to them. BTW, seals are not on the endangered species list. As bovines and pork are not on the endangered species list .... don't care what anyone says, the slaughter of millions of animals in the abbatoirs is also barbaric ... if you want to argue that, I say go tour one.

I'm a veggie, who is repulsed by any brutality of man to animal... but I'm not against the sealhunt ... why, cause I realize there is a population of people who rely on the income it brings ... sure, they may get unemployment benefits ... but that does not cover the food, clothing and shelter year round for them and their families. The people that hunt these seals belong to a culture, a way of life, music, language that is fighting to survive. That is threatened in itself by extinction ... they can't fish anymore due to the cod moratorium. The Unemployment (Federal Government) people are urging them to migrate .. move to Toronto, Calgary, Fort MacMurry to find employment. There they go, only to have their spirits broken, to fade away in the suburbs of those cities.

If you want to argue this ... take a vacation to the coastal areas Newfoundland ... you can't reach many of these communities by road ... you will find the most humane, colourful, indiscriminate people you'll ever meet ... it will change your perspective on this seal hunt, and you will come away enriched at having found a beautiful way of life, a beautiful part of the world.

biLL