[areafiftyone]

The seal hunt is NOT A HUNT - it is a slaughter! I am very pro-hunting but this is NOT hunting its wasteful slaughter!

[butternut_squash_bisque]

I'm no tree hugger or PETA supporter, but this barbaric slaughter of baby seals should be stopped. It serves no useful purpose. Wear cloth coats, folks.

[pissant]

Good grief. McGyver, now a has-been Beatle. I'm going to buy everyone in my family seal fur lined slippers next Christmas.

[jjmcgo]

I'd have a lot more respect for McCartney if he agreed to live in some Newfie's house for a year while the Newfie lived in his house for a year.
Classy how a near-billionaire criticizes how someone in one of the poorest areas of the world makes a tough living. Maybe they should go back into the leaky coal mines under the ocean floor. But what would McCartney know of that?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

"About 325,000 seal pups were killed during the hunt last year, bringing the local fishermen $14.5 million in supplemental income, which they say their families badly need during the winter offseason."

It may in fact be a slaughter instead of a hunt, but these people need the bucks this provides. If it were my choice, do this and feed my kids or let them go hungry, I'd be there doing it.

[Piranha]

So these two baby seals walk into a bar, and one of them says to the bartender,"I'll have a Canadian Club on the rocks..."

[Churchillspirit]

It's a pity they cannot find a better way to control the seal population. They are very destructive to salmon. Apparently they take one bite out of a fish and discard it.