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", recent eye-witness accounts claim otherwise, corroborating studies suggesting that more than four in 10 pups are still alive when hunters skin them."

What more needs be said? Such cruelty is simply astounding, and outrageous. Simple human decency forbids it.

I am NOT some wide-eyed animal-rights activist; indeed, I once hunted game myself, and still enjoy fishing.

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

Just because we are smarter than animals DOES NOT give us the right to torture them to death in such a manner.

In fact, if one watches the video of the so-called 'HUNTS', one wonders who the animals really are...

[Skooz]

I agree totally.

Fox News just ran a clip of the "hunt" and it showed a baby seal desperately trying to run away from the big piece of puke weilding a club. It was heartbreaking. Anyone who can do this is less than human. I'm sorry, but they are.

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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