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Current mood:  savage Category: Pets and Animals
Warning, the images at the bottom of the page are extremely graphic in nature and may offend some of you. You have been warned, so don't hold it against me. They may come off as indecent, but I felt no indecency when I included them here. No one, not even I, relish the thought of staring at the bludgeoned face of one of these gentle and beautiful, and very ecologically important animals.Propaganda has us Canadians, in the large numbers, stuck in the naive and oblivious state of mind where we think that this seal hunt is done in order to help the fish stocks increase again.
A helpless baby harp seal
To fellow Canadians:
This is just complete and pure bullshit fed to you and me by the Government, who gets the money derived from the sales of the seal fur-coats in the fortunately ever-shrinking fur industry, which is now actually a black market. To kill 330,000 harp seals, many of them babies (which the government deceitfully tells us is not permitted in this hunt), is no different than genocide. And to prove that this whole event is just for the shameful marketing of seal-fur, which provides a lot of warmth and is absolutely gorgeous, you have to look at what the seal-hunters do in order to kill them.
They kill the seals only through the head; a region where no fur can be extracted since it wouldn't be able to be used. This way, the fur coat is not damaged, and the animal is dead so that there is little they have to do instead of skinning the animals alive. It is also a means of quick fur-extraction. The hunters are all in it for the money as the fur industry pays these people for the fur that they bring them. It's like the recycling industry; the more you bring the fur industry, the more you get.
To say that this whole event is aimed at bringing fish and aquatic food stocks back to a healthy state, is nonsensical. It is proven that the area where the fish stocks are harvested, or were anyway, is literally barren of sea life. We, meaning Newfoundland and all the people who fished the hell out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (as I can't remember exactly which bay it is, I can be discredited only for this lacking), have destroyed those waters where the fish stocks are empty. For this reason alone is Newfoundland one of Canada's most debt-ridden provinces. Yet what bullshit can anyone claim that this seal hunt will help at all? Not only are they allowing the near wiping-out of a very major ecological element, they are risking the endangerment of everything the seals are connected to. Even if the fish stocks were to increase due to their eradication, their numbers will either drop, or most likely increase in alarming rates. Perhaps this is what the province wants, but this will hinder the populations of every other organism and a terrible imbalance will proceed to follow. Not only that, but you can't mistake the other shameful truth, that we'll wipe out the fish stocks yet again, simply due to greed and need. Defeats the purpose in every way.
To the World:
Please get on the bandwagon. Don't listen to government pro-responses to the seal hunt, they're all dreadfully wrong and they lie to you. Not only that, they are costing us Canadians tax dollars! And yet some or many of us still fall for it being a good cause! Outrageous in every sense of the word! Sure, it is making one of our provinces a little bit of money, but it is pure blood money, all acquired by the ruthless and sickening slaughter of statistically frightening numbers of baby harp seals and the selling of their fur. There is no reason why any other country should support this seal hunt in any way as it does nothing for them but the Canadian Government, the seal hunters, and the fur industry. For one, I'm proud that the U.S.A, for all that they are cracked up to be, still have declared anything from this seal hunt in Canada is illegal. Good thinking America, that's one more thumb-up from me.
You can read on this information here: Stop the Seal Hunt: The truth ---
Canada's Seal Hunt: Cruel and Unnecessary
As humans we have the ability to consciously treat other living beings with respect and dignity. It is this ability, this choice, that makes us human. Simply put, the Canadian seal hunt fails this choice miserably. Canada's commercial seal hunt cannot be effectively regulated to ensure humane treatment and prevent cruelty.
How long can we continue to ignore such cruelty in the name of commercial profit?
Seal pups remain helpless and vulnerable on the ice for several weeks. It is during this same time when seals only two weeks to three months old are also mercilessly slaughtered for their pelts.
The truth about the seal hunt will break your heart
Our humanity is measured by how we care for the vulnerable among us. What is more vulnerable than a newborn seal pup, stranded helpless and alone on the ice? A baby seal can be legally killed once it molts its white fur, which usually begins at about 12 days of age. The small, unprotected newborn of any species should not be preyed upon, never mind bludgeoned with a club. Seals are routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the sides of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Few sealers are observed checking to see if a seal is still alive before they skin it.
Canadian tax dollars at work
The Canadian government claims that the hunt is market-driven and economically viable. The fact is that sealing is a very small enterprise, accounting for less than one percent of Newfoundland's GDP and an average income of $1,000 per sealer per year. And significant amounts of money continue to be spent by Canada through hidden subsidies to promote the hunt abroad, as well as to develop new markets for seal products. The federal government has subsidized the commercial seal hunt in many ways over the years, from direct subsidies to sealers and their organizations, to tax exemptions and federally funded support services during the hunt, including Coast Guard ships and ice breakers. The market is driven … by Canada's government itself.
There is no excuse
The products of the hunt are an unnecessary luxury. Most of the harp seal carcasses (including the meat) are simply abandoned on the ice. This isn't killing for food or survival, it's killing for fashion. Despite years of research by the Canadian government trying to develop new seal products, the only economically valuable parts of the seal are the pelts of defenseless seal pups, a non-essential luxury product no one really needs. In many countries, this hunt would be completely illegal.
There is no economic or environmental reason to justify this hunt. It is driven by politics. World experts agree that the size of this hunt puts the harp seal population at risk and the increasingly high annual quota for hunting seals is regularly exceeded by sealers. More than a million harp seals have been killed over the past three years, yet the majority of Canadians oppose the commercial seal hunt as it exists today. This hunt isn't about helping Newfoundlanders. It's an unsustainable economic dead end that puts Canada's international reputation and tourism industry at risk.
From me:
Please, would you please halt the senseless and brutal killing of these wondrous, defenseless, and serene animals?
Oh and, if you're furious about this seal hunt as I am, view this linked image without a full stomach, yet a heart of justice for what is true:
And please, to see an example of this carnage, follow the link. Like the above linked image, view with caution:
The information following the three -'s is from the IFAW. Website is IFAW.org. There is a hyperlink there.
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