Posted on 03/24/2006 1:19:19 PM PST by Clive
Sick, sick, sick. There is no other way to describe the grotesque, over-the-top spectacle put on in Ottawa this week by a past-her-prime French actress.
Brigitte Bardot made her way from the land of berets and baguettes with a deluded sense that she would somehow meet with our prime minister and plead for Canada to stop the annual seal hunt.
The PM didn't bite.
Neither did the fisheries minister or anyone else with a full-time job that doesn't involve a flash and a notepad.
So, Bardot was left to do what she does best, play for the cameras.
And that's where the true sickness unfolded.
Tears welling in her time-weathered eyes, Bardot stood before a giant backdrop of a human baby -- yes, a human baby --lying dead on the blood-stained ice.
In the background is a seal holding a bloodied club between its teeth, eyeing up the youngster for another strike.
The grotesque image is enough to make you lose your breakfast.
It is so repulsive, that every major newspaper in the country bowed to good taste and chose to not run the self-serving insult to humanity.
In the end, the do-gooder celebrity's sick stunt was as effective as a wet match -- the annual seal hunt starts tomorrow.
But the bad taste left behind by self-important busybodies such as Bardot will linger long after the seal hunt is over.
It has unfairly tarnished our nation in the eyes of all those who see crusading celebrities as experts or even worse, role models.
With that in mind, here are some facts on the seal hunt you won't get from Bardot or any other radical animal rights group on the planet.
Canada's seal population is at nearly six million -- three times the level it was the last time Bardot could legitimately call herself a star.
It is illegal to kill those pretty white-furred baby seals that Bardot uses on her website to argue that Canada's annual hunt is an atrocity. Since 1987, only seals that have shed their baby fur are open game.
And finally, the majority of seals killed during the hunt are not clubbed to death, they are shot -- which makes for far less sensational imagery.
It's appalling any celebrity with too much time on her hands would try to tell Canadians what they can and can't do to feed their families.
Or tell Natives their rights to hunt seals should be sacrificed.
The fact Bardot, Sir Paul McCartney and other celebrities would come to the Great White North and wag their fingers at Canadians trying to make a living or practise their tradition, is insulting.
But most alarmingly, here's the thing Bardot and all the fur, fin and feather fanatics around the globe just don't get.
Animals are not humans.
We can love them. We can call them a member of our family. We can pet them and play with them and -- if their species is threatened -- we can rally to save them.
But at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, they are animals.
It is a fallacy to equate the worth of an animal's life to that of a human being.
And likening the seal hunt to killing babies is just plain sick.
I wonder what seals taste like? It seems, with all that fat, they may be similar to Kobe Beef.
A lot of issues here:
1. The killing of a baby seal is not the same as the killing of a baby.
2. That being said, within the limits of our usage of the resources that God provided us, we should strive to do so respectfully.
3. To call the seal hunt a "hunt" does a disservice to hunters.
4. Except for perhaps the eskimos, to the extent that real eskimos still exist, I think the practice is generally barbaric.
They called their organization "Cod Peace"
Their mascot was a stuffed and mounted cod.
What a shame, Brigitte Bardot is really starting to show her age.
Give her a break. She was cited for hatespeech en la belle France for saying the Muslims were barbaric invaders decimating the French culture. She's a tough lady.
J'adore la Bardot!
They may just be animals, but don't men have an obligation to kill them humanely? I know, I know, some of our American slaughterhouses are a disgrace. If the PETA folks weren't such moonbats, they could probably be very effective in promoting humane slaughter practices.
anyone got a graphic of the baby seal holding the sign that says "save the baby humans" ?
She used to get a lot of attention, showing off her 20 something body.
No more are those days.
Do they eat the blubber or the meat? Blubber's got to taste like tofu, whatever that tastes like. Anybody?
Maybe they just needed to paint Kate Michelman's face on the seal? ;)
For hundreds of years the seal hunt has helped to keep the local ecology in balance. The aboriginals had become part of the ecology.
This until the foreign draggers hit the Grand banks followed by Greanpeace and Bardot. The latter had learned their definitions of "ecology" in liberal arts and poly sci courses.
Now the seals are experiencing a population explosion which is throwing the ecology off balance.
The seals are not under threat of extinction. The cod fishery is.
My first paragraph ough to have read:
The harp seal competes with the local fishers, aboriginals and foreign draggers for a dwindling cod stock.
Agreed.
I hate it too. And it's pity that PETA became a bastion for the loons.
I'm surprised, but Brigitte does have some redeeming qualities:<a href=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5181642/
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