[Past Your Eyes]

This should be more fun than a movie about queer cowboys.

[Seeking the truth]

[pikachu]

Damn, we needs to form car pools now. Amd this time we bring Tupperware -- no more trying to get 'our winnings' back trough the border in a paper sack. Tupperware to seal your seal!

[MarMema]

I think it is sad.

[areafiftyone]

Canada says annual seal hunt slaughter to start Saturday

Sorry but this is NOT A HUNT - it's a SLAUGHTER!

[starfish923]

So, where, oh where, are all those Canadian liberals, animal activists, PETA-folks and greenies?
Why is this STILL going on?
It's been going on for a few hundred years....NOT stopped by the wild-eyed seal lovers.
They have SUCH voice in the media and legislature. Why haven't they STOPPED this by now?

What's holding them up?

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[Roccus]

I remember that I used to love the feel of my Momma's seal skin coat.

[ArrogantBustard]

I'll just say I'm glad they haven't caved in to the tree-worshippers, bunny-huggers, and bambiists ... 'nuff said.

[Lancey Howard]

'When Liberals Collide!'

[mkjessup]

Don't kid yourselves people, those cute lil seal cubs can bite the living crap out of you if you get too close, as reported in 'Hello Magazine' on Paul and Heather McCartney's recent celebrity trip to Canada:

"...But once they had arrived the two, who were both dressed in bright orange snow suits, wasted no time in getting down on their bellies for an encounter with some newborn Harp Seals...Heather might have been forgiven for expecting a warmer welcome from the furry creatures, though. The first pup she tried to say hello to was obviously unaware of her good intentions, as it tried to bite her hand, forcing her to withdraw it quickly."

http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2006/03/03/paulmccartney/

[FoxInSocks]

Remember this guy?

"If nobody comes down here and buys a car in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right. I'm gonna club this seal to make a better deal. You know I'll do it, too, 'cause I'm crazy."

-- Crazy Ernie, UHF

[Fawn]

Jeez---Where is AlQueda when you want them?

[joesnuffy]

Pups are killed before they have sufficient swimming skills and are afraid to leave the ice...making them easier targets for cullers.

The arguments for culling the animals is that they eat too many cod and deplete the fishing stores...

Counter arguments are that only 2% of their diet is cod and only during certain times of the year and in certain locations
much of their diet also includes predators of cod...

Another argument is that this is socialism's cruel and mercenary answer for solving area unemployment problems..

Why they club the pups..I don't know...perhaps they are afraid of hunters shooting one another accidentally or ricochets off the ice?

Most likely because it's cheaper than buying bullets...

imo

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[headsonpikes]

The hunt officially starts at 6 a.m. on Saturday.

6:30 in Newfoundland.

/insidecanadianjoke

[Springman]

Ping. I won't post any comments about your county's hunt.

[CaptainCanada]

Would our Seal hunt be easier to accept if we ask the Bush Administration
label Canadian Seals as terrorists???

[eleni121]

The Canadians are terrible conservationists.

They wiped out the bear and moose population on Canada --the moose crossed back into Quebec from Maine and they started to rebound.

The Canadians say that they kill seal pups because they eat the fish...nonsense. Baby seals do not eat fish and second, it's the dumb Canadian fishermen that overfished the seas. By the early 90s the entire cod population had been depleted...by humans not seal pups. They are doing the same in British Columbia today...overfishing.

Bottom line: killing baby seals serves no useful purpose except to keep some unemployed Canucks doing something and some bureacrazis employed.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

This should be more fun than a movie about queer cowboys.

That is a sick thing to say. I'm totally opposed to these seal pups being clubbed to death. IMO anyone who participates is the lowest form of humanity.

[LibKill]

"Ohhh, you don't club a seal because you want a meal,
you do it 'cause you want to hear that little sucker squeal!"

[BobS]

What does seal meat taste like? I've eaten lots of animals except seal.