BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: number 6
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:48 PM

I think the energy, $money$ spent on the anti-seal hunt campaign and Employment Canada's migration promotion would be better put to use in finding some solution on how these coastal communities of Newfoundland and Labrador can survive in this world of global economics.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:46 PM

Well, first of all I'm not Canadian....

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:45 PM

Ah, at last the Canadians are chiming in. The usual finger-pointing and glass houses arguments. The point is there is NO PURPOSE whatsoever in the seal slaughter, other than to decorate the ski parkas of the wealthy and ignorant.

weep for them, not for the seals. The seals are not endangered. Yeah, good thing too, since 450,000 of them are being beaten to death with clubs this season.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:29 PM

Go and see for yourself what our "civilization," both in the US and Canada, have done to the indigenous people -- and if you have feelings, weep for them, not for the seals. The seals are not endangered.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:16 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 06:11 PM

There are plenty of seals. I wish this same ardent opposition had been around when a half dozen countries were shrinking the whale population to a point some species are endangered. No offense to you, EJ.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: meself
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 05:58 PM

Funny, I don't recall anyone posting lately about the "irrational and barbaric slaughter" going on in their local slaughterhouse/rendering-plant/abbatoir/meat-packing-plant ...

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 05:44 PM

What is barbaric is that some people do not understand the balance of nature in this part of the world. Nor, apparently in their own. If they did, they would understand that Newfies need to fish to survive. In order to fish, there must be fish. If the seals eat the fish THE WAY THAT SEALS EAT FISH (one bite and on to the next in shallow water during spawning season), then there ain't gonna be fish to eat.

Now... all you veggies should be happy. Because, once the Newfs start having to harvest seals to eat to survive after the seals get fat on the fish, then, there will be lots of seal dregs to make fertilizer with to grow your veggies.

Barbaric? Fuck off. Irrational? Right back at ya.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 05:17 PM

Thank you, LeeJ, well said.

Good on ya, biLL, must be difficult at times.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 01:24 PM

I'm a Canadian vegetarian who lives in the maritime region.

biLL

Subject: BS: Canada Escalates Seal Slaughter Defense
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 12:52 PM

In an attempt to prevent interference with its annual seal slaughter, the Canadian Coast Guard has ratcheted up its tactics. Video of the slaughter, as well as of the repeated ramming of Sea Shepherd Society ship Farley Mowatt can be viewed here. Yesterday, the Canadian Coast Guard forcibly boarded the Sea Shepherd ship in international waters, arrested the crew, and impounded the Farley Mowatt.

The seal "harvest" is a Canadian government sanctioned event of an industry which cannot be sustained on its own profit. Sealers who participate are qualified to receive unemployment benefits throughout the rest of the year. Currently, the European Union has taken a ban on the import of seal slaughter products under consideration, a ban similar to the one the US has had in place since 1972. The Canadian government has sent a diplomatic task force to the EU to lobby against the ban.

I urge EU Mudcatters and Canadian Mudcatters as well to work for the end of this irrational and barbaric slaughter.