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Canada's Mass Seal Killing

  • 18-04-2004 10:15pm
    #1
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭


    From here the mass killing of 350, 000 seals is nearly over for just this year's quota.

    Does anyone find the seal cull outrageous considering the fact that all the fur which is skinned from the animals is sold as cloth items to european markets for profit ?

    Is it justified and humane?


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  • #2
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Why do they kill them ? is it for envorment reasions or something ?....+ If their dead you might as well make use of them or else its just a huge wast tbh


  • #3
    Kalina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Kalina


    I think the cull happens every year to help keep fish populations up. I don't think that justifies killing thousands of seals evey year, there should be a better way to control the population.


  • #4
    Gillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,640 ✭✭✭Gillie


    I would gleefully take a bat to any seal-clubbers head repeatedly!
    Why dont they move them to ANtartica or something?
    Surely they dont have to kill them?

    Sick B*stards!


  • #5
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5


    take a look at sites like this

    http://www.sealclubbing.com/


    Theyre sick people. A lot of them do it for fun, and for money


  • #6
    bribren2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭bribren2001


    god thats an awful site!

    god there's some sick people out there!


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  • #7
    ramius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭ramius


    that web site makes me feel sick and very angry that there are such sickos out there that get a kick out of clubbing defencless animals. and it is obvious by the site that it is not out of need that they do it but because they like it. ****ers


  • #8
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    satire people, satire.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.hsus.org/ace/19074
    In 2001, a report by an independent team of veterinarians who were invited by the International Fund for Animal Welfare to observe the hunt concluded that governmental regulations regarding humane killing were neither being respected nor enforced, and that the seal hunt failed to comply with Canada's basic animal welfare regulations. The veterinarians found a disturbing number of seals (as many as 40%) probably were skinned while alive and conscious.
    ...
    In 2003, the Canadian government announced a new quota. It will allow sealers to kill 975,000 harp seals over the next three years.

    More info - disturbing reports of live skinning
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3618901.stm

    Links to both sides.
    http://www.harpseals.org/hunters/


  • #10
    casper-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭casper-


    Wow...I'm shocked and appalled myself; I don't think I've heard two peeps about seal killings at home in years. Especially with the whole "fail to comply.. with basic animal welfare regulations".

    :(


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