Hmmm....perhaps a bit controversial, but no where NEAR as controversial as back in the late sixtes when I was wearing my "Wolf-head" button, which said something like "I NEED my coat, you don't".

The Toronto Star's Kelly Toughill has written a very readable six or seven part article on the Newfoundland seal hunt. Needles to say, I've read MANY similar articles, but they ALWAYS have a pretty obvious agenda. This one doesn't....Or perhaps it's ME that no longer has the agenda.

There have been a number of letters to the Editor, and not surprisingly, the vehemently anti-sealers, are saying that it's the Government's job to re-train these Ocean-based folk. I dunno, but if ANYONE told me I'd have to give up music for (say) accounting, or gynecology.....and they'd train me for it.....well they'd have a fight on their hands....and maybe one to the death.

And a 'fight to the death' is what these Newfoundland Whalers are going through now.

What I learned about myself was that as long as I ate steak, lamb, goat (Jamaican food!), chicken, and porky pig, I had no right to protest the killing of "Cute" animals.

There's still quite a bit of hypocrisy on my part, because I identify wealthy people in furs, as people who'd probably dislike me the moment I opened my mouth, and I stay away from them.

What I'm REALLY interested in is...does this issue break down around "Liberal-conservative" lines, Rural-urban, or are folks all over the map?

I have to go into hospital for an annoying little follow-up to what was discussed in Kendall's "Oh the Pain...." thread, but I'll be back in a day and a half to check it out.

Any chance someone could do a Blue Clicky to Kelly Toughill's articles in the Toronto Star?

Thanks

Rick