Outrage at new mass slaughter of baby seals

Guardian ^ | 04/11/04 | Mark Townsend

[winker]

Yeah! you are right how stupid and irresponsible for me letting my PETA CARD EXPIRE and misplacing my loyalties and PRIORITIES!!!!!!!!! HARUMPH!!!!!!!

[xone]

'If this had anything to do with the "cod shortage" the targets would be the adult seals. They eat many times more cod than the adults.' The difference is the adults have 'ate' their cod. The young haven't. The pelts of the young are marketable. If they killed the adults, then the young would starve; is that a better way to go? Could be that the seal population needs controlling in its own right. Crummy job but little different than the destruction of the eggs of the overpopulated snow geese. But then geese aren't mammals.

[oldcomputerguy]

"Your constant insistence that it is is odd and borders on obsessive."

Fine, believe anything you like.

[Skooz]

Thank you.

I grant you the same dispensation.

[antaresequity]

Any person who could look at one of those animals, and beat it to death with a club, is not someone who can ever be trusted around other humans.

And your facts to support this assertion must be the out of control crime rates in NewFoundland...uhh huh...sure...

[antaresequity]

and they provide no survival needs.

uhh huh...sure...and Why dont those mean NewFoundlanders plant corn instead or just weave baskets?...lets see...120k seals at 200 bucks a crack is 12 Million bucks...ya your right...not at all a survival issue for a culture that lives on the edge of friggin ice pack

Maybe they should just be relocated according to your plan?

[antaresequity]

Cruelty such as this, however, is a far cry from the clean, quick kills that a decent hunter strives for.

Hmmm...would it then not bother you if the kills were swift and clean?...Or...

I bet the problem is the cute and cuddly appearance of them...If they were an ugly and wretched creature with a marketable coat would you feel any different?

Me bets not a word would be raised if they had onerous appearance...Some how killing somthing that is cute is worse than killing somthing ugly or in captivity...

There is not much honesty coming from those who decry this as being a sub-human endeavour whilst turning a blind eye to equal treatment of other creatures...just cause they dont have big black eyes

[Long Cut]

"I bet the problem is the cute and cuddly appearance of them"

Don't go to Vegas.

I guess the concept of humane treatment of animals by humans is indeed a foreign concept to some.

I repeat...such brutal, torturous slaughter of non-threatening, non-survival-related creatures, soley for the money they lose due to their own overfishing, is not a fit occupation for any MAN worth the name.

If you think these brutes are fit companions and examples for your children, be my guest. MEN, however, find more honorable and dignified work to support themselves.

[so_i_say]

These poor baby seals are defenseless. They are taken away from their mothers to be clubbed to death-well no. The Canadian government has made new guidelines:they must be shot, to make it more humane. Since when is killing babies humane? This is purely cruel. To be killing more than 300,000 harp seals...all for the sake of money. They obviously have no morales. Seals have never seriously damaged us, or as far as I know, at all. This is unspeakably cruel. I can't believe people are making jokes about this. Seals: cute and cuddly? Not when they're dead and skinned alive. This is a disgrace to mankind. This MUST be stopped, as soon as possible.

[Dog Gone]

Cows rarely hurt us, except in Pamplona and at our rodeos. We kill millions of them every year. Horrible.

Yum.