He backed off of SG-1 for THIS?!
Just damn.
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Posted on 03/07/2005 4:37:33 PM PST by pissant
CHARLOTTETOWN - Actor Richard Dean Anderson, best known for portraying the quick-thinking handyman hero MacGyver in the TV series of the same name, has taken on a new role to protest the annual seal hunt.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, one of the world's most famous environmental groups, has enlisted Anderson's help as it tries to intensify its international campaign against the annual seal hunt, which starts in a few weeks.
Anderson, who recently finished working on the science-fiction series Stargate SG-1, said he's not worried about being used to promote Sea Shepherd's message.
"No, it was my volunteering to be used," Anderson, who is a member of the group's board of directors, said at a press conference in Charlottetown Monday. "Because I understand the power of the media and the power of celebrity.
The American-based group wants to boost the protest against the seal hunt to the level it was in the 1970s and 1980s. It's trying to send a ship filled with protesters to the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to document the birth of harp seals, which it will use in campaign videos.
"It's a barbaric and ignorant and cruel industry," the group's founder, Paul Watson, said at Monday's news conference.
"And it can't be justified just because somebody's making a buck off of it."
The Sea Shepherds also belong to a larger coalition that is advocating a boycott of Canadian seafood because of the seal hunt, with an international day of protest planned for March 15.
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Hm, I thought Anderson had more smarts than this ... Oh well.
Those of us who are Stargate SG-1 fans know RDA isn't a has been.
Was the best sci-fi show on until a couple seasons ago when he cut back the hours he was willing to work.
The shows are uneven now, depending on whether he's there much that week.
P.S. Clubbing baby seals to death for their white fur IS pretty barbaric.
He backed off of SG-1 for THIS?!
Just damn.
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I think they use the meat for dog chow....
"I cant believe we used to think that guy was hot!"
Everyone loves sausage, but nobody wants to watch it being made.
Let's just let the seal population grow until there are so many that large numbers starve to death, that way we can feel smug and morally superior.
Some of America's heros were trappers. Much more brutal than a quick club on the skull! And Beaver tail tastes great.
"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, one of the world's most famous environmental groups,"
I must not get out much, never heard of 'em....
I don't love white baby seal fur, and I don't need it.
If the purpose is population control, then there are more humane ways to accomplish that end than clubbing a baby to death in front of its mother.
Young adults seals could be culled for food for zoos if population is a problem.
Maybe the French will sink he Sea Shepherd. One of the few good things they've done is sink a greenpeace ship.
Yep, it's awful to line up cows and have them watch the ones in the front of the line get shot & gutted. That's what the animal rights folks think anyway. The steaks taste just fine to me.
Yeah, it is much more humane letting the "baby" starve to death in front of its mother....
What's the big problem about letting people continue their tradition? If you find it distasteful, then don't participate. If we do population control your way, it costs us money, because the government is going to have to do it. I'm sure these guys are asking the seals which one is their mother just to make sure she can see it getting clubbed.
How many white fur coats have you bought?
Are white fur coats necessary?
Food is. It's a different argument.
What people? What tradition?
Do you go to cock fights and bull fights, too?
I could wear vinyl shoes (they are cheaper); I prefer leather.
I don't think they are out there humanely clubbing to death starving baby seals.
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